Macintosh IIfx with a Microtouch touchscreen and a Videologic video card that supports overlaying 8 bit graphics over 24 bit video from a Pioneer Laserdisc 8000. Collisions and Scattering Room. The users play a game in which they identify W, Z, Jet and Junk Events from real CDF data. During the game, Drasko Jovanovic give students audio feedback. Physicist Jim Freeman provided the CDF events.
Animations provide background on how to identify the particles.
Macintosh Quadra 700 with large screen monitor, joystick. Primordial Soup Primordial Soup in the Ideas Room introduces students to the concept that everyday matter was a Primordial Soup shortly after the Big Bang. Students learn physicists use the Tevatron to create conditions similar to those in the early Universe to see some of the particles found in Primordial Soup. Visitors used this prototype for about a year and provided valuable feedback. The current exhibit uses a progammable microcontroller developed by electrical engineer Paul C. Czarapata of the Beams Division.