不是只有你一个人认为大型强子对撞机上发生的事情离日常生活有点远，但也许它们不必如此。在米兰设计周期间的黑客事件中，一半是设计师，一半是科学家的帕特里克·史蒂文森·基廷（Patrick Stevenson Keating）成功地用一些吹制的玻璃灯泡、一个泵、一些磁铁和45000伏电压**了他自己的粒子加速器。以下是加速器的工作原理，用史蒂文森·基廷的话说：

"The piece c***ists of a series of organically-shaped hand-blown glass bulbs – each attached to a pump via a tube to create a vacuum. When the button is pushed, a voltage of 45,000V is applied across two electrodes. The huge potential difference forces the electr*** to gather at the tip of the brass cathode tube inside the rubber bung. When the opposite voltage is applied to the anode disc at the other end of the internal tube, it rips the electr***, accelerating them towards the end of the glass bulb. As the electr*** reach the disc, they begin to collide, losing energy and emitting some of this as visible light. Some, however, accelerate through the anode dics, and collide with the phosphorus lining of the glass vessel. This reaction causes phot*** of light to be released, resulting in visible specks of light."

去连线听听史蒂文森·基廷对这个项目的看法，看看下面的视频，看看它是如何建造的，以及当快速移动的电子碰撞时会发生什么。