"Like ants, they gather in colonies, sometimes underground in basements, and work long and hard," said Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing.
The neutrino detection apparatus relied upon roughly 20-inch tubes called photomultipliers that lined a tank filled with very pure water, over 1,000 yards underground, to gather evidence of the particles, which have no charge and are so light that physicists thought for decades that they had no mass at all.
On April 27th, more than a hundred people gathered in the underground auditorium of a prestigious contemporary-art museum in Mexico City.
Dozens of relatives and friends of the 11 miners underground gathered outside the site on Sunday while rescuers fought tons of coal dust to reach the workers, The Associated Press reported.
In "Green Lantern," directed by Martin Campbell, the Guardians, who use the ethical power of will to protect the universe from the destructive force of fear, direct the Lanterns, who wear green plastic suits and have purple faces with pointy ears, or heads like fish; they talk slowly and solemnly, like the hierophants of some forgotten Egyptian religion gathered in an underground crypt.
Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and other fashion luminaries gathered in the underground space, where dreamy shots of California redwoods were projected on the walls.
Iranian-born Israeli pop idol Rita recently released an album of songs in Farsi which became an immediate sensation in Israel and also gathered a significant underground following in Iran.
Well, the idea is simple, if also complicated: new technology makes it possible for us to gather light and funnel it underground.
In this crystal UFO, excited press will gather, before descending into an underground chamber where seating for 1,000 awaits, to be dazzled by momentous multimedia product launches.
