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Slideshow: Striking Gold at Speed of Light
A team of scientists works with a particle collider, smashing ions together in an attempt to recreate the conditions of the earliest universe.
An end-on view of a full-energy collision between gold ions. The tracks show the paths taken by thousands of subatomic particles as they pass through a large, 3-D digital camera.Brookhaven National Lab

