Link to a photo series by Dave Bullock on Wired.com from a visit to the "longest linear accelerator in the world, which resides beneath nondescript industrial buildings near the Stanford University campus."
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Beautiful birthing place of black holes, spacetime rifts and Higg's bosons. Let the multiverse begin.
Wait, isn't that just a photo of the Tardis console?
I toured SLAC this summer and saw the BaBar detector. The place had such an effect on me I even decided to use it as the inspiration for skit appropriately dubbed "SLAC: the Musical". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38OG2uXZa3A
There's no greater joy than smashing particles at really high speeds in a really big tube.
M@, keep up the good work. I think you may find that it's not the smashing that = joy, but the results. If you don't get the results you predict, sometimes it's a let down.