On Saturday I wrote about the plans to collide lead ions in the LHC, and showed a simulation of what we might see. On Sunday it happened. Here’s the real thing…
See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation
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