In response to Sylvain LANDRY, SL-Week 24: Machines.

Landry asked for machines that could be unbelievable and frightening. I think that would be The Large Hadron Collider.

I saw The Eye of Sauron when I faced this machine. I stood rooted to the spot in the museum trying to grapple with the number of electrical circuit components held on this thing. I wondered why the parts of the machine must be assembled to look like an eye. I wondered how this tool fitted into an even larger one to make Hadron Collider work. I wondered what mysteries this machine could unravel about the universe.

I am still wondering. Still impressed. Still frightened. Still in disbelief. Still confused. Still puzzled. Anything could happen.

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The machine shown in my photo is only part of the large Hadron Collider. The machine has a diameter of about 1 metre although it seems small sitting in my photo frame.

[Photo: Taken at The Large Hadron Collider exhibit in ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 17 November 2015.]