A Spring Of Love Gushed From My Heart, And I Blessed It Unaware
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
I'm nostalgic tonight. You can tell from my quoting Coleridge. The reason ? The Tevatron has finally stopped running, for good.It's strange to find out one can mourn the shutdown of a synchrotron just as the passing away of an old friend, but that's more or less how I feel like tonight. And I am not even among the ones who can claim to have been around for the full duration of the machine's lifetime, like Giorgio Chiarelli - as Giorgio recounted here, he was there in the CDF control room when the first proton-antiproton beams collided the first time, in 1985. read more