According to contract law, since the company is the originator of the contract, if you send them a modified contract (i.e. by scratching out terms) this is not a true modification if they do not send you a reply saying they accept the modification. If you sign the contract and try to scratch out some terms, they can hold you to the original contract by simply not replying to it.
Although I agree with the theme of your comment, it's not true that CERN is "the guys who know more than anyone about particle physics". They may be building the largest HADRON collider as of now, but particle physics is done with many types of machines. Currently, for example, the largest electron-positron collider is at SLAC in California. The types of particle physics that you do with these two machines are different simply because of the types of particles that they collide. Smashing leptons are much different from smashing hadrons such as protons. It's true, for example, that the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN will probably be the first to discover the Higgs boson (if it exists), but you will need an electron collider like the one at SLAC (but much bigger with more energy) to probe certain properites of the Higgs further.
Another point is that labs like CERN and SLAC are collaborative worldwide. These labs are hosts to scientists from countries all over the world. It is because of this collaboration that the WWW was even invented. As a matter of fact, SLAC was the first place in the US to use the WWW.
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That's funny, I thought 58.27 Hz is closer to 60 Hz than 61.74 Hz.
According to contract law, since the company is the originator of the contract, if you send them a modified contract (i.e. by scratching out terms) this is not a true modification if they do not send you a reply saying they accept the modification. If you sign the contract and try to scratch out some terms, they can hold you to the original contract by simply not replying to it.
Although I agree with the theme of your comment, it's not true that CERN is "the guys who know more than anyone about particle physics". They may be building the largest HADRON collider as of now, but particle physics is done with many types of machines. Currently, for example, the largest electron-positron collider is at SLAC in California. The types of particle physics that you do with these two machines are different simply because of the types of particles that they collide. Smashing leptons are much different from smashing hadrons such as protons. It's true, for example, that the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN will probably be the first to discover the Higgs boson (if it exists), but you will need an electron collider like the one at SLAC (but much bigger with more energy) to probe certain properites of the Higgs further. Another point is that labs like CERN and SLAC are collaborative worldwide. These labs are hosts to scientists from countries all over the world. It is because of this collaboration that the WWW was even invented. As a matter of fact, SLAC was the first place in the US to use the WWW.