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

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

the old ones are Wilson cloud chamber photographs, usualy from cyclotron
(not supercollider) or synchrotron - I have reels of them here, they're
beautiful - Alan


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, ian wrote:

>
>  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
>
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