Sarah Charley

Sarah Charley is senior writer in the Fermilab Office of Communication.

A reader asks, “If atoms are mostly empty space, then why does anything feel solid?” James Beacham, a researcher with the ATLAS Experiment Group at Ohio State University, explains in this two-minute video.

To learn more about the particles they collide, physicists turn their attention to a less destructive type of collision in the LHC.