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a fishbowl where invisible particles leave contrails like tiny drunk airplanes.
means a sealed chamber of supersaturated vapor that condenses into visible droplet trails when charged particles zip through it, making subatomic physics briefly visible.
from invented in 1911 by scottish physicist charles thomson rees wilson, who got obsessed with cloud formation while watching mist on scottish mountaintops and decided to recreate it in a jar.
nobel prizewilson won physics nobel in 1927 for this
antimatter debutpositron discovered in one, 1932
cosmic rays visibleyou can literally watch muons rain from space
diy friendlybuildable at home with dry ice and alcohol