Conventional physics considers space to be a vacuum through which light and other particles travel under the influence of the fundamental forces, including gravity.

As particles travel through the tracker the pixels and microstrips produce tiny electric signals that are amplified and detected.

These particles travel in circles, inducing a current in a fixed coil on one point in their circle.

The particles travel through the gradient until they reach the point in the gradient at which their density matches that of the surrounding sucrose.

Higher energy particles travel a shorter distance in each orbit than they would in a classical cyclotron, thus remaining in phase with the accelerating field.