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TIME: 11:45 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

Our last stop was, ironically, where it all begins - The Cockcroft-Walton. The Cockcroft Walton is where every beam starts. Small amounts of Hydrogen gas get hit with 750,000 electron volts which starts the beam on its way. It is one of the oldest technologies on the Fermilab site.

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TIME: 11:00 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

This is from the New Muon Lab. This area will soon house a small scale test accelerator. It is to test the feasibility of making a large scale linear accelerator out of superconducting radio frequency cavities, which could someday could lead to a new generation of accelerators.

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TIME: 10:15 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

Another one from the Meson Lab. There had to be hundreds of miles of this ribbon wire throughout the lab.

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TIME: 10:15 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

The next stop was Meson Lab. This building houses the testing area for new accelerator technologies are tested and a test beam area where new detector ideas are tried, tested and calibrated.

In case anyone is curious, yes - the reflection was intentional!

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TIME: 09:45 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

The PBar Tunnel (or Anti-Proton Tunnel). This tunnel has two accelerators that are used to store and re-inject the antimatter particles back into a bigger accelerator (named the Tevatron), where they are forced to collide with Protons. These mater and antimatter collisions happen at point around the Tevatron where giant detectors record the events.

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TIME: 09:15 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

This was building AZero - In this building Fermilab is testing new ways of making beams for acceleration. Inside the cave is this test set-up called the Photo Injector. In the Photo Injector a laser is used to strike a cathode and make particles that can then be used to make a beam.

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TIME: 09:00 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

Although I have many photos inside the buildings at Fermilab, one of the things that struck me most was the integration of science and nature throughout the 6,800 acre site.

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TIME: 07:50 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

My first stop was Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall (Wilson Hall), the central laboratory building, it was built between 1971 and 1974. The design was acknowledged in 1975 with an award from the Society of American Registered Architects. The building was named for Wilson on September 18, 1980.

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Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
~ Murray Gell-Mann

TIME: 12:30 PM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

I almost didn't go. I knew this was a photographer's event, not a science geek event, and I align much closer with the latter. With the exception of a handful of science geek photographers, I was right. Fortunately, there was no judgment. I was treated with the same respect as those with professional quality dSLRs, tripods and camera bags filled with multiple lenses.

I'm glad I went.

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