Warped Space

Simply because we cannot get enough of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, here's another photo of ATLAS, one of the five particle detectors and the future birth chamber of microscopic black holes and primordial particles not seen since Creation.



For the curious, the subterranean nave housing the detector actually looks like this to an observer, since its monstrous toroidal magnets have warped the fabric of space and time. There is no fancy Photoshop trickery at work here.

And here's another photo, looking down towards ATLAS.



Perhaps we're looking up? From 10 seconds back in time? Forward in time? From an angled view?

(Larger versions reside in our Flickr account here and here. If you want the originals, which are twice as big, let us know. The link where the images were downloaded from is lost somewhere in our archives, so the image source and photographer are presently unknown, unfortunately.)

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The Descent
The Machine