"But I’m absolutely convinced that we will find new physics at the LHC. It's the energy range at which something new will happen, I would bet on that."DW-TV: The 19th of September in the last year was a black day at CERN. How dramatic is actually the break.   Rolf-Dieter Heuer: The break is dramatic in terms of time because it took a bit more than one year to do everything. But it's not dramatic in the sense of spirit. The spirit is very high. But what we had to do was, first of all we had to repair the damage, secondly we had to measure all the other connections in order to be sure that something like this could be avoided again, and thirdly we had to install a lot of new electronics, cabling, et cetera. And all this together takes more than one year, but then we are pretty sure to start up safely. DW-TV: Which is a long time: one year. Since also physicists in America, in Chicago, are also searching for the Higgs boson. Are you afraid they might outpace you? Rolf-Dieter Heuer: No, I'm not afraid of this, because if I look only on science, I don't care where things are found first, and secondly, even if they find something, they only can find indications, and only LHD can tell you if there's really something, and thirdly, when we switch on in November, after one year we will have the same discovery potential or even better than our friendly competitors in the US. DW-TV: But you're not only a scientist, you're also the director-general of CERN. So how important is it to find the Higgs boson if there is a Higgs boson actually here at CERN? Rolf-Dieter Heuer: I think it would be very important, it would be a huge stimulus for CERN, that's clear. But it would be even more important of the progress of particle physics and the progress of research, fundamental research in general. So it would be very important. DW-TV: But wouldn't it be also maybe kind of boring? Because if you find a Higgs boson, all you do is confirm the standard model of elementa...