In the newly available Life collection, I was surprised, but pleased, to find an early example of accelerator-produced Lichtenberg figures, of the kind Bert Hickman and Todd Johnson have been making.

February 1947: "In electron factory, preparing plastic for bombarding from discharge light."

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Courtesy of Fermilab's Visual Media Services, and coverage in Fermilab Today,here's the photo Reider Hahn took of the people wearing pajamas to this morning's Large Hadron Collider startup event:

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

Adding to my antimatter timeline I have extended my research a bit further, with the kind help of other scholars:


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In its 9 November issue Fermilab Today displays a neat picture from Jeff Larson. (If this link doesn't work, try another.

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From Fermilab Today:

Education Office Offers Family Open House, Feb. 19
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There seems to be some local resistance to the scheme of a guy who wants to install a cyclotron in his house in Alaska.

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Both collider experiments at Fermilab have officially hit an integrated luminosity of one inverse femtobarn. Champagne at 3:30. Whoopee ( Read more... )