The Physics Bus: Raise Your Hand If You're Tempted to Run Away with It...

[beamjockey]

I just got word that the Physics Bus will stop at Fermilab on Sunday, 30 July. Unfortunately, I will not be in town to see it. From their site:

The Physics Bus is our science museum on wheels, and it's taken us on Bus Stops from New Mexico to California

Comments

An itinerant Van de Graaf operator

[purpletigron]

[FX: Helium hand, iridium jewellery?]

[stickmaker]

Why stop at Fermilab? They should already know physics. :-^)

[beamjockey]

I think they want to get a picture of the Bus in front of Wilson Hall, or other cool-looking Fermilab sights like the Capacitor Tree or the Fifteen-Foot Bubble Chamber.

[gmcdavid]

Looks like fun. Alas, I checked the route and it is not coming to Minnesota.

It takes money and passion, or maybe just passion.

[gypsy1969]

When I was young, I used to dream about wandering the country as an itinerant Van de Graaf operator. Maybe it could really happen.I thought I was the only one who had weird fantasies like that. I've thought about devoting my basement to make a museum for kids that would have trains with a SF/Fantasy backround and science demonstration exhibits off to the side. But then just because I built it doesn't mean anyone would come

[charlie_meadows]

Happy to see The Bus* is still running five years later (though they really need to update parts of their site...)

It *was* a little disappointing to find that it's only fueled by vegetable oil** (that's so... *sniff* chemical). I'd have hoped for something with... a little more "oomph"! (Or maybe using a propulsion system exploiting some relatively obscure physical effect. I mean, look, the thing still uses... WHEELS!)

*if not the *original* Bus

**I do salute, however, their effort to be reasonably "green"