Using a fried dough and Kit Kat stop-motion animation, the folks over at Elements explain how a synchroton particle accelerator — like the Large Hadron Collider — accelerate particles up to the speed of light.
The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated highly charged particles through 6.4km of electromagnetic coil and vacuum tubes to discover the secrets of the universe. How do you turn a beast like that off?
