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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.
And who knows, if high school teachers used baked goods as educational aids, maybe more kids would be excited about pursuing a career in science. [Elements via BoingBoing via Twitter: Ed Yong]
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This isn’t exactly like the other particle accelerators. It doesn’t create collisions which are analysed, it creates powerful light. This process is slightly different for the LHC.