Circumnavigating the LHC, with Sleepwear

[beamjockey]

I just spoke with Judy Jackson, head of Fermilab's Office of Communication. She was wearing orange and blue pajamas

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[gerisullivan]

Huzzah! Thanks for your post and yay for Fermilab. A pajama party was just the thing.

You do know you need to update your profile now, right? Ah, yup.

[beamjockey]

Yes, it's a spectacular building, and works fine for offices and shops.

Wilson conceded, years later, that he should have installed more than four elevators, and that they should have gone all the way from the bottom to the top. (At first, only two shafts went from the ground floor to the 16th, so if you want to go from, say, 7 to G, you need to get into the right elevator, or go to 1 and switch shafts. A third elevator has since been extended downward.)

Wilson wanted to encourage informal encounters, and communication between employees at all levels. He liked the idea of a big central building.

Things are less central since large buildings were added for the collider experiments, CDF and D0, and for the Computing Division. So you have less chance of running into a random person in the Highrise. But it still holds the only cafeteria on site, and the credit union, and the big seminar rooms and 800-seat auditorium.

[mmcirvin]

Now I'm getting itchy waiting for the published papers... a few years from now.

[maiac]

A pajama party at Fermilab. Coolest thing ever!

[kristenparting]

How the Higgs may help Kate Thayer, Kane County Chronicle 10 August The search for a tiny particle at Fermilab could lead to big things.

[tanac]

fun :)

(and just think, if things had gone differently lo those many years ago, I might have been there! How's that librarian working out, anyways? :)