Wave/Particle Dual Post

BBC News (once again) reports on construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. This image (with little people for scale) is a 2,000 ton piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid that may help find the elusive Higgs boson. (That's like 2000² pounds - wait, what's a pound again?) After the LHC comes online, you'll have to take PH301 all over again!

Rayguns in Georgia? Here's an article from the Seattle times. Let's go down several orders of magnitude, to EM waves with millimeter-size wavelength. Unlike nanometer-wavelength visible light, which bounces off our clothes and skin, and unlike microwaves used for cooking (wavelength ~ 12cm), which cook flesh well below the surface, these millimeter waves only effect the surface of the skin, giving a burning sensation. So the militaty has turned this effect into a non-lethal weapon - a raygun if you will, though they call it an Active Denial System (ADS). Of course, it's quite controversial, because non-lethal isn't the same as harmless.