X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NovemberBlog;h=daa05414bb63d2e47600f1cf1f15f0eb1dde8050;hp=c29e78f698e2153e663868c23614234867819840;hb=26e572459b930a442b02a049462c7f21ebfae675;hpb=099df8cf3c42d1891f66fa32203705db24ba8b56 diff --git a/NovemberBlog b/NovemberBlog index c29e78f..daa0541 100644 --- a/NovemberBlog +++ b/NovemberBlog @@ -15,14 +15,15 @@ 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 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!