The Cosmic Cradle
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A beautiful bubble chamber that captures the spirit of the 20th century! It shows a particle physics interaction in a bubble chamber, enveloped between two thicker tracks produced by cosmic rays.
This symbolises the fact that cosmology, the study of the evolution of the universe, depends on the properties that elementary particles exhibit when collided at very high energies.
Particle accelerator laboratories like CERN re-create the hot dense conditions that, according to the Big Bang Model, existed in the early universe a few hundred thousandths of a second after the Big Bang.