"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." --George Wald

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  • Members of the Auger Collaboration, with a newly installed scintillation detector
    The Pierre Auger Project's Southern
    Observatory, located in the high plains of Argentina, will include over a thousand water tanks with photodetectors (like the one seen in this photo) in order to identify high-energy cosmic rays impinging on the Earth.