I visited the RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory (they have tours during the summer - highly recommended if you're near Long Island!) and one of the scienti

I visited the RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory (they have tours during the summer - highly recommended if you're near Long Island!) and one of the scientists told me that she had never looked at the visualization of one of her collisions. I got the sense that they were more for PR than anything else.