50-foot-wide, 15-ton electromagnet makes 3,200-mile journey from NY to Chicago

Ron Czapala

http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-giant-magnet-attracts-rock-star-status-194725326.html

The land-and-sea trip culminated when scientists threw a rock star's welcome for the mysterious, shrink-wrapped cargo on Friday as it arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to help study blazing-fast particles.

Fermilab officials plan to use the magnet in a physics experiment called Muon g-2 that will study subatomic particles at their lab in Batavia, outside Chicago. The experiment will study the properties of muons, subatomic particles that live only 2.2 millionths of a second.

Heater.

Wow. They will never get that sucker off of the fridge door!

localroger

Heater. wrote: »

Wow. They will never get that sucker off of the fridge door!

Sure they will. One of the Pacific Rim Jaeger robots will peel it off after downing a tanker truck of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

erco

That EM is bound to be more interesting and dynamic than LA's "rock star welcome" for a museum exhibit for... a 340-ton rock. Also a big transportation challenge, two years ago: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/06/14/340-ton-rock-heading-to-la-county-museum-of-art/

Sapphire

And don't forget about moving the Space Shuttle. Working for the DOT, this was a lot more challenging than the rock. Really quite an Endeavour!

[video]http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10/15/time-lapse-video-space-shuttle-endeavours-trek-across-l-a/[/video]

Gadgetman

Heater. wrote: »

Wow. They will never get that sucker off of the fridge door!

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