[-empyre-] Re: empyre Digest, Vol 7, Issue 12

["ian" <ian@laudanum.net>]

 I've also been inspired by
> seeing photos long ago of scientific photographs of the movements of
> atoms.  I don't have any current sources, so I'm referring to my memory
> of what they looked like--not to mention the synaesthetic quality of the
> spidery tracery.

There's some images from cyclotron ( supercollider) targets that are
captured on photographic plate.
The images record the paths of  subatomic particles as they emerge from
atoms subjected to high energy collisions. These 'spidery' traces are the
paths of neutrons as they undergo deceleration (loose momentum) and are
for me some of the most beautifull images of our time.
The first of these images was produced in the late 1950's

cheers
ian