Unfortunately, "popular science" articles are written to a low intellectual standard, demanding something visual, and they have only cartoons to carry the burden. It would be better to think of it as a kind of schematic of what happened. The real data is probably a blip on a strip of graph paper (old school). Not very inspiring.
I agree totally, but the above image implies otherwise.
And I will totally agree to that :D
Unfortunately, "popular science" articles are written to a low intellectual standard, demanding something visual, and they have only cartoons to carry the burden. It would be better to think of it as a kind of schematic of what happened. The real data is probably a blip on a strip of graph paper (old school). Not very inspiring.