Here’s how it works:
The Cyclotron Labyrinth is a big maze
filled with images of
the Indiana University cyclotron.
Click on certain images to
move through the maze.
You can tell when an image
links to another page of the maze --
the cursor changes to indicate a link.
Things will get blue and fuzzy when you
are close to the end of this two-level maze.
There are two ways to solve the maze --
through pure chance, or
you can find the underlying order
and navigate through.
The underlying order is
loose, subtle and small.
With a cyclotron, The Cyclotron Labyrinth is a metaphor for this process – Enter the Cyclotron Labyrinth > Copyright 1997, Paul Smedberg, Version 1.2
researchers smash together fragments of the atom.
They look at the patterns of the breakage
in order to divine
the hidden shape
of what is.
fragmenting and smashing together images of the
cyclotron facility.