If you know what a “ Time Projection Chamber ” or “ Proton Synchrotron Booster ” is , you ’re probably a physicist . And if you’re able to explain them to non - physicists , you ’re a hero . This complicated trash role model endeavor to make see molecule physics a little bit easier — with the help of a vacuum cleansing agent and 500 feet of tubing .
Niklas Roy , an installation artist Gizmodo’sfollowedforyears , is back this summer with an awing new piece in Groningen , in the Netherlands . There , in a cheery park , Roy has constructed a massive , super - grim - tech particle gas using the simple material possible : 500 feet of credit card tubing , a standard void cleansing agent to “ accelerate ” the particles , and a few other bells and whistles like a motion - activate sensor that control the whole shebang . The most important purpose — the particles — is toy by 1,000 black sponge musket ball .
“ As I ’m a sports fan of science and purgative in particular , I find it a pity that the current corpuscle accelerators make the observation of the little speedy particles so complicated , ” Roy writes on his internet site . “ This should be something that a broader audience can enjoy . ” All anyone needs to do to see the car in action mechanism is walk up to it and put their script over the motion sensor . That trigger off the vacancy , which give suck and pushes air through the warren of tubes thanks to a shift mechanism that alternates the direction of the air .
In fact , a former CERN scientist even stopped by , says Roy :
One of the first random visitor ( a neighbour of the Pavilion ) move around out to be a theoretic physicist who even used to exploit at CERN on the LHC . With him I had an insightful discussion about particle accelerators . He told me that the speck inside the LHC move in both directions as well , at the same time , just separated by magnetic field .
Sure , Roy ’s initiation does n’t quite cover the particulars of CERN — but it ’s a hell of a lot more fun to look at . [ Niklas Roy ]
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