Using the metaphor of an atom smasher, Trevor Blackwell’s Super Collider randomly accesses Web sites and smashes the sites together to return a new composite to the Web visitor. The creators were interested in new sets of ideas and connections that could be generated by the random pairing of information from the storehouse of the Web:
From across the Internet, elementary particles of information are accelerated to nearly the speed of light. They travel in opposite directions around the giant fiber ring. . . , meeting in the collision chamber, . . . The collisions release small but massive information particles, scattered in all directions. Some of them are collected by the information detector and stored for later viewing.