The article has a different way of thinking about the "shattering" of colliding protons. Perhaps this is a long standing "in joke" among particle physicists, bu

The article has a different way of thinking about the "shattering" of colliding protons. Perhaps this is a long standing "in joke" among particle physicists, but it was the first time I read it: The hopes of thousands of particle physicists are riding on the protons that in the coming years will collide there, shattering into petabytes of data that may carry long-awaited answers to fundamental questions about nature,