With all of the science behind the Large Hadron Collider, you just know there has to be some earth shattering visualizations to parse out the mountains of information right? You’ld be right, but you may not be able to understand the super-technical pictures.
There is a near-constant buzz of activity now that the LHC has started up again. And large monitors display very impressive, technical-looking visualizations of potential events as they are detected.
Unlike Monty Python’s machine that goes bing, however, these displays are rife with meaning. You just need a secret decoder blog post!
The “Symmetry Breaking” team has a few of the pics with details describing just what you’re looking at. Be forewarned, tho, that even with details you still not have the slightest idea what’s going on.
via Blogs of the week – LHC event displays: not just pretty pictures.
