You know that feeling when you hear a massive measurement, and your imagination just can’t quite build a picture of it? That’s me. I can handle someone being a head taller, but the moment you tell me , or that , it all goes a bit fuzzy. I can tell it’s big, but I can’t really visualize it.
But if you tell me the small wheels are 10m and ATLAS 25m, or that PS is 628 metres compared to LHC’s 27km, well I can tell it’s big, but I can’t really visualise it.
I see the outline on a map, stretching from Meyrin to Cessy in Switzerland, but what does that feel like? Is that my entire commute to work? A quick trip to the shops? Would it even fit in my city?
It’s one thing to know something is huge; it’s another to truly grasp it. So, what if you could just pick up these colossal accelerators and plop them down anywhere in the world?
Well, using the map overlay component I wrote for the last post, we can stop wondering and start exploring. Let’s find out!
You can use this map on your own website if you want. The code and instructions are available on GitHub
