Artist Unearths Large Hadron Collider WIth Psychedelic Mural [Imagecache]

ATLAS, the incredibly complex particle detector that processes the experiments running throughout the even more incredibly complex Large Hadron Collider , isn’t open to visitors. But CERN has a compromise: a huge, gorgeous mural of ATLAS’ guts.

CERN commissioned American painter Josef Kristofoletti to create the rainbow cross section, which even at three stories high, is simply a third of the machine’s actual size. The things CERN does shouldn’t ever, ever stop being massively impressive to us-this will help. [ ATLAS ]

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