Pruned: 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.

Large Hadron Collider

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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Anonymous
July 4, 2007 at 9:46:00 PM CDT
Was the part about the magnets warping spacetime a joke? Because that photo, like many of the Large Hadron Collider, was clearly taken with a fisheye lens. The thing is just too damn big to take a normal picture of.

Alexander Trevi
July 8, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CDT
Hey Anonymous,

That was just a wild stab in the dark. Definitely not a joke are the bits about sacrificial virgins and The Tenth Circle of Hell in the old posts mentioned in the end. Both were written in all seriousness.

Anonymous
May 12, 2009 at 6:38:00 PM CDT
lol. i very much doubt that man made magnets could produce enough evergy to warp space fabric, good one though, good for a laugh.

Anonymous
November 16, 2009 at 12:27:00 AM CST
We build small scale things in a large scale way and vise-vera. all i've ever witnessed in life.

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	Warped Space Monday, June 25, 2007 #subterranean #testing_grounds 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.) In the Archives: The Descent The Machine 4 COMMENTS — Anonymous July 4, 2007 at 9:46:00 PM CDT Was the part about the magnets warping spacetime a joke? Because that photo, like many of the Large Hadron Collider, was clearly taken with a fisheye lens. The thing is just too damn big to take a normal picture of. Alexander Trevi July 8, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CDT Hey Anonymous, That was just a wild stab in the dark. Definitely not a joke are the bits about sacrificial virgins and The Tenth Circle of Hell in the old posts mentioned in the end. Both were written in all seriousness. Anonymous May 12, 2009 at 6:38:00 PM CDT lol. i very much doubt that man made magnets could produce enough evergy to warp space fabric, good one though, good for a laugh. Anonymous November 16, 2009 at 12:27:00 AM CST We build small scale things in a large scale way and vise-vera. all i've ever witnessed in life. Post a Comment — Comments on posts older than a week are moderated — —— Newer Post Older Post —— Home	1