X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NovemberBlog;h=5a421d57153a08666c93b2f80d7b4a94b33918b1;hp=c080b9cf72ffeaab18b22372d8e88eda6d62e7a7;hb=07e2e330fecadc8fb82979db72dcf829e958c247;hpb=13c1aa7585cc1f2618e781267f2fe4482b45ea0c diff --git a/NovemberBlog b/NovemberBlog index c080b9c..5a421d5 100644 --- a/NovemberBlog +++ b/NovemberBlog @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ UsAirways plane to ChicagoOHare through Philadelphia. ==== Trip To Fermilab ==== Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]] -My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab "village", surrounded by +My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab village, which is +surrounded by buffalos and various other animals, little lakes and bike paths. +Indeed very pretty. On Saturday, I took a guided site tour, starting from the museum. They have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts and really working @@ -24,7 +26,15 @@ equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters. Then... WAH! They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]! The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration that produces protons for the MainInjector. It was like entering an old -science fiction movie! +science fiction movie. You know, like Frankenstein or Buck Rogers: with giant +Tesla generators, panels with flashing lights and indicators...Buck Rogers +The continuous buzz reminded us that the proton beam was shooting through +this long corridor next to me. + +Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing. +The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors, +with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain. + FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world: