Caption CERN Contest Week 16

Week 16: 5/20/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/27/2015

This is not your Father's POV display! Scientists at CERN have came up with some amazing science advancements. They've also needed ways to display the data they collect. This image may depict some incredible new way to display data collected on from a high power physics experiment - or it could be a scientist's project for the CERN science fair. We may never know.

The album is titled CHAMBRE A ETINCELLES DANS EXPO TECHNOL, which roughly translates to "Sparks in the technology expo room". The lines traveling between the three horizontal display devices definitely appear to be aligned. Are they sparks of electricity? You tell us!

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Add your humorous caption as a comment to this project log. Make sure you're commenting on this contest log, not on the contest itself.

As always, if you actually have information about the image or the people in it, let CERN know on the original image discussion page.

Good Luck!

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Steel_9 wrote 05/22/2015 at 17:41

Oh this, I am quite proud of this. This machine blinks random lights, and while it dosen't tell me anything, it makes the lab seem much more scientific.

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gmwatbot wrote 05/22/2015 at 17:30

Stanley was happy with his first version of "Missile Command" and hoped to get some time at the weekend to improve the game play

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/22/2015 at 17:25

Mungi set the Spark Chamber Mood Organ to "Kismet" and then began an improvisational dance he called "Velvet Ritual of Seduction." Karen, just out of frame, had already opened the fire door, and was discreetly sidling out of the room.

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Bill Smith wrote 05/22/2015 at 17:12

Come on, come on....!!! Turn off already, dammit!! It's Friday and Darlene's waiting for me at the pub!!!

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Dan Fruzzetti wrote 05/22/2015 at 16:48

Maybe I'll get a clearer picture if I set this switch to "more magic"

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/22/2015 at 14:14

"Your trajectories are off by 1 sigma! Your trajectories are off by 1 sigma!" mimicked Burt harshly. "Half the width of a paramecium caudatum, but that's not good enough for Sir Sheldon 'I-invented-the-boson' Glashow." In his heart, Burt knew he was out of his element here at CERN, and that knowledge disappointed him bitterly.

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md_reeves wrote 05/22/2015 at 14:09

I swear I had it programmed for tic-tac-toe, not Tron

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A. M. Aitken wrote 05/22/2015 at 13:40

"Long weeks at CERN are worthwhile when you see just how profoundly your work can change the world. This Christmas tree light tester completely eliminates holiday stress and in as little as a decade should be portable enough for the tree to be at home."

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/22/2015 at 12:52

As Jerome put the finishing touches on his four-hour electronic-tone-poem "Meditation on some ice cream melting on the sidewalk: a cone bereft" he came to the crushing realization that his colleagues would not really understand his despair. This in turn was the inspiration for the epic cycle of nocturnes "i am the empty cone, i-ix" for which he is so well known in particle physics.

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jcharlestc wrote 05/22/2015 at 12:42

"I've just about had it up to here. The secretaries have 64 meg workstations with 27 inch LCD displays, and we have to work with THIS!"

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Marius Taciuc wrote 05/22/2015 at 11:03

Fred, here, was only looking for his lost glasses when he
entered the room, but working at 1000V/m for the past 20 years of his life, he
couldn't remember the light switch.

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Winny wrote 05/22/2015 at 10:35

Dee Dee sneaking into Dexter's Laboratory: What does this button do?

CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!

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asdfex wrote 05/22/2015 at 09:45

Not a funny caption, but this is a rather trivial one: We're looking at a spark chamber - The lines are actually lightning along the path some cosmic rays traveled through the device.

That's right, a sub-atomic particle produces this well-visible lightning, just by applying some high voltage and a special kind of gas in the chamber.

It's not displaying data from an experiment, it actually is the experiment by itself.

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K.C. Lee wrote 05/22/2015 at 08:29

For a second there, Bob thought he might have discovered a new particle and then he realized it was just the Lines Screensaver.

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Shrad wrote 05/22/2015 at 07:36

No one at CERN was able to beat the new PDP-11 at Electronic Mikado...

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Matt wrote 05/22/2015 at 06:18

"Damn this herringbone! I can't quite get the picture to come in." Later, Bob found out that there was far too much interference from recent microwave experiments that had permanently fried the receiver.

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mark wrote 05/22/2015 at 03:36

After 15 years of intense development efforts by top scientists and engineers from around the globe, CERN is pleased to announce the completion of the world's smallest blinky light array.

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Edwin Zhang wrote 05/22/2015 at 03:27

CERN decided to experiment with collaborative music 20 years befor Plink was a thing.

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Oscar Knight wrote 05/22/2015 at 02:00

This WILL be a better train schedule display!

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Eric Hertz wrote 05/22/2015 at 00:13

"I keep telling yah... 4017s' cascade feature does not work like that... but you had to find out the hard way..."

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