Science Wonders
About this site

I built this to make particle colliders easier to inspect.

Science Wonders is an independent project. It turns accelerator chains, detector layers, and gravitational-wave signals into something you can inspect directly. I am not a physicist, but reading about these systems made me want to see how they fit together.

Jonathan R Reed

Jonathan R ReedAI security & product engineer

I spend most of my work hours on adversarial testing, secure LLM deployment, and product engineering for AI systems. This site started as a focused way to build for a curious reader instead of a production risk model.

I picked particle physics and gravitational-wave astronomy because they have extraordinary hardware that most people never get to interact with. The controls here are deliberately simplified: they show relationships, not exact operating values. If you need the real numbers, the sources at the bottom of each page link to the official publications.

The same rule applies to the whole site: if a claim is made, the source is named. If a model is simplified, the shortcut is admitted upfront.

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What to expect

Start from real machines

The accelerator route uses actual CERN injector-chain specs. The detector route uses the real LHC experiment layouts. The gravitational-wave route uses published LIGO sensitivity curves. Nothing is invented for drama.

Move the model, then read

Each page puts a simplified control first. The explanation is tied to something you can change, so the abstraction lands after you have already seen the behavior.

Limits are part of the content

The controls are teaching controls, not lab controls. The diagrams show relationships, not event reconstructions. Exact values should be checked against the linked sources before citation.

Not official. This is an independent public science project inspired by publicly available CERN and gravitational-wave observatory material. It is not an official CERN, LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, or EGO publication or tool.

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