Fine Structure

The journalists behind Stanford Linear Accelerator's symmetry magazine and associated blog, symmetry breaking, clearly understand the needs and wants of the internet. And what could be more important to the internet on a slow Wednesday than accelerator physics? Time lapse video of a cooling tower being demolished, to be quite frank.

Check out the video of an excavator carefully maneuvering around still-active SLAC machinery to tear down this 60s-era cooling tower.