text:  One example is a particle physics experiment in the 1930s when the atom was first split using a particle accelerator. In 1932 at the lab that I work in in Cambridge at the Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, who was a leading nuclear physicist and his team, split the atom for the first time. And this was reported all over the international press and journalists got very excited and said, you know, Professor Rutherford,