Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Site:
http://acnsun10.rhic.bnl.gov/RHIC

Category:
Physical Sciences

Review (in 1996):

This is Big Science, baby. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC to friends) is a 3.8 kilometer tunnel o' gadgetry that will collide subatomic particles called heavy ions at high energies to recreate the hot, dense plasma of quarks and gluons believed to have existed in the early universe. (Set it for defrost and it also works wonders with meatloaf.)

You'll find tons of tech talk here, but head right for the brief photo tour of the RHIC site (it won't be ready until 1999), which looks pretty much like a billion-dollar irrigation pipe full of space-age cartoony gadgets like the Grumman dipole magnet.

If you dig the RHIC, you'll probably also enjoy a visit to its parent page, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, for a look at similar Department of Energy brainstorms.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.