[Seth-Trips] Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

[David E. Weekly]

This tour is *worth taking*.

The equipment there is pretty mindblowing. :)

-d, who took it as a profro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth David Schoen" <schoen at loyalty.org>
To: "Riana Pfefferkorn" <pfeffers at whitman.edu>
Cc: <seth-trips at zork.net>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Seth-Trips] Stanford Linear Accelerator Center


> Riana Pfefferkorn writes:
>
> > SLAC in Palo Alto offers free tours to the public on select dates. You
> > must make a reservation in advance - and present photo ID. Tours are 2
> > hours long. "They generally include an overview of particle physics
> > research conducted at SLAC, a view of the giant detectors required to
> > observe subatomic particles and a peek at our linac, housed underneath
> > the world's longest building."
> >
> > Upcoming February dates:
> > Sun 2/15 10a
> > Wed 2/18 1p
> > Sat 2/21 10a
> > Sat 2/28 1pm
> >
> > Would anybody be interested in going?
> >
> > http://www.slac.stanford.edu
>
> Ooh!  That sounds like great fun.
>
> I used to work at LBNL, which also has a couple of accelerators.
> (Berkeley is the home of particles that go in circles, and Stanford of
> particles that go in straight lines.)  Those accelerators were very
> interesting, but I always wondered about the other side of things.
>
> I think a weekend tour is probably best in terms of maximizing the
> number of people who can go, but the 15th might be full already (with
> couples pursuing Valentine's Weekend linear accelerator tours, doncha
> know) and also kind of conflicts with the Noe Venable concert.
>
> -- 
> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
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>                                        |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)
>
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