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Posted on 05/09/2013 8:57:56 PM PDT by Daffynition
BROOKHAVEN, N.Y., May 9 (UPI) -- U.S. physicists say they're planning a new experiment in particle physics -- but first there's the small matter of moving a 50-foot-diameter magnet 3,200 miles.
Along with colleagues from 26 institutions around the world, they are planning an experiment to study the properties of muons, tiny subatomic particles that exist for only 2.2 millionths of a second.
But first the core of the experimental equipment, a complex electromagnet 50 feet in diameter, needs to be moved from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to the department's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.
The magnet, made of steel and aluminum with superconducting cable inside, is the core of an experimental machine built at Brookhaven in the 1990s that will be the centerpiece of the Fermi experiment.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/05/09/Giant-50-foot-magnet-to-make-cross-country-trek-for-physics-experiment/UPI-14361368127258/#ixzz2SrHvFlU9
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I’d let UPS handle it...what Brown can do for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=leDyTgJaJfA
Hey, with a load that wide, you can't just go anywhere you want.
Houston, Close, Florida to Mississippi then north. I would have thought north up the st. Lawrence seaway to Chicago.
From this side.
You really oughta’ start writing some sci-fi novels.
“All was going well as the convoy drove closer and closer to the lawn dart factory ...”
Thanks for that mental picture.
Twilight Zone?
Reminds me of some cab drivers....
Good thing for the St Louis mafia that it won't be powered up or all the submerged cars will stick to the bottom of the barge like so many giant barnacles with bodies inside.
These scientific types are such dummies. Why not build it in IL instead of NY? Hello?
How many thousands of our taxpayer dollars did that silly model cost, including the economic and environmental impact statements?
So it's following Michelle Obama's route home?
"It costs about 10 times less to move the magnet from Brookhaven to Illinois than it would to build a new one," said Lee Roberts of Boston University, spokesman for the Muon g-2 experiment.
Even physicists can have problems with simple English.
I assume he meant one tenth as much to move... But I'm just guessing here.
**The Muon g-2 team has devised a plan to make the 3,200-mile journey that involves loading the ring onto a specially prepared truck that will transport it to a barge that will bring it down the East Coast, around the tip of Florida and up the Mississippi River to Illinois.**
Something has to fill the void from NASA.
You read my mind.
These egghead physicists are supposedly the biggest brainiacs on the planet, yet they couldn't figure out that it would be a lot simpler to ship the darn thing in pieces, then put it together at the end of the line.
Sheeesh....
That thing must put out a lot of suck!
I wonder how much it cost to build the cute little model with the all the details, down to the guys burying the body on the side of the road?
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