Image of the Day - Maximilien Brice
This May, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans, is scheduled to start smashing protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds. The LHC will explore the leading explanation that mass arises from ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive field of virtual Higgs particles. In this image by Maximilien Brice, a person stands in front of the huge ATLAS detector (center, near bottom of frame), one of six detectors being attached to the LHC. This was the February 25, 2008 Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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I have always wondered why we continue to try to break down particles. It must be our destructive inner children. Can't we just accept particles as they are?
One of six? Damn! That thing must be gigantic!
Good call Teddy. Who needs accelerated particles anyway?
Unless they are to become the new petrol.....
Actually this is a top down view of the biggest fricking Dyson Vac you ever saw!
Wow, I almost didn't notice the guy standing there!!
That's it all right Michael. I didn't recognize it at first until I looked up inside mine and got this very view. Almost got sucked in like tghe poor guy standing inside the one in the picture. Imagine the bowling ball THIS thing can lift!!