Recalling a Fallen Star’s Legacy in High-Energy Particle Physics

[lsanderson]

By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: January 17, 2011

The machine known as the Tevatron is four miles around. Bison graze nearby on the 6,800 acres of former farmland occupied by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Occasionally, physicists run races around the top of it. More

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[artkouros.livejournal.com]

What a waste. Thanks, Congress.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Wow. That big red magnet? I tested about three hundred of those, working in the magnet factory, when we were putting the Tevatron together.

Maybe they'll let me take one home. They're 21 feet long, and hardly radioactive at all. I could put cushions on it.