Descripción: Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University.
«The particle accelerator, popularly called an atom smasher, is such an image and technology of this astounding technological age. Extending over several miles underground, it produces beams of energetic charged particles and directs them against various targets. Needed to observe objects as small as the atomic nucleus in studies of its structure and of the forces that hold it together, the particle accelerator is also required to provide enough energy to create new particles. A kind of high powered version of our childhood marbles game on the level of atoms, the particle accelerator is one of many phenomenal marriages of technology and science to produce wondrous visions of worlds far beyond the capacity of the unaided eye.»
