Operating Fermilab's particle accelerators | Behind the Science 

I was a control room operator from 87 to 95. When people ask me what it was like I tell them for someone with a BS in Physics it was like a kid getting a job in a candy store. Plus I got to meet Stephan Hawking.

I would love a standalone video about all the safety precautions taken at Fermilab.

Thank you for highlighting the people that actually make things happen and keep things running.

Very cool, but I have to admit I had hoped for a bit more of an in depth look.

I wish I had known about jobs like this when I was young. This would have been the perfect job for me. I didn't have the math chops to be a particle physicist, but I bet I could have qualified for this. I also love the term "subatomic detritus".

I love the diversity, feels like a collaboration of most of the best.

Thank you.

Modern day science is true teamwork. Never forget that each time the Nobels pop up again.

Super cool video showing amazing work going on in the US! The music is a bit much throughout but loved hearing everyone talk about their jobs!

I visited Fermi in 2015. Took a tour. The part that really got my attention was that they were treating folks with cancer with the “machine”. Could you guys elaborate on that process? Thanks

Fascinating that it starts with a small tank of hydrogen 🤯Go tech support/operators et all ! But do they call when it goes perfectly ? I hope so !!!!

Fascinating!

dream job

Yepp, I would work there for the cool factor alone.

Great behind the scene video.

I was in Accelerator Ops from 1995 to 2006 (Operator for 5 years, Crew Chief for 6). I'm now an engineering physicist at the lab working with magnets, but will never forget my days in the Main Control Room.

Can save humanity the good operators. Chris J Lydon

I love Fermilab, great people and awesome atmosphere!

Wdh playing with the building blocks of the universe awesome

Hey guys, that's an interesting Engineering insight.. do you also have a link or a contact option, where I can find further details about your equipment, like T&M, power supplies, your (Superconducting?) magnets and their electronics, and so on? Greetings from THE volt-nuts "Dr. Frank"

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background music is torture yo

Yall better be getting paid 7 figures a year for this type of job. The amount of incredibly specific and complex knowledge for something like this would just be absurd.

Great video- if I was in 6th grade. Please don't hesitate to go into MUCH more detail.

It made no sense that my brothers job was cleaning the target screens that his room was always a mess in the late 70's

Subatomic Detritus is the name of my next band.

I want a big science machine.

Only the technologies that have harmed human life please

Human body

Are you sure about the readings are they genuine and not the instrumentation error

Why the music? Why? Why? Ehy? Why? Why?

Just wish public access was back to what it used to be. Y'all destroyed the arts series - obliterated it as if you'd whacked it with warp speed protons. Now you need a passport and a cavity search just to see buffalo.

Wow

You'd think they could set up a system that could count people going in and out so they'd save themselves all the checking. Or buy a spot. Or have everyone who works there carry a tag when they enter the area (otherwise door won't open).

were the interviews shot by interns?

I like the first 2 videos in this series better. What happened with this one?? It's so different. Did the producer die of radiation poisoning?

If quarks have not been isolated and gluons have not been isolated, how do we know they are not parts of the same thing? The tentacles of an octopus and the body of an octopus are parts of the same creature. Is there an alternative interpretation of "Asymptotic Freedom"? What if Quarks are actually made up of twisted tubes which become physically entangled with two other twisted tubes to produce a proton? Instead of the Strong Force being mediated by the constant exchange of gluons, it would be mediated by the physical entanglement of these twisted tubes. When only two twisted tubules are entangled, a meson is produced which is unstable and rapidly unwinds (decays) into something else. A proton would be analogous to three twisted rubber bands becoming entangled and the "Quarks" would be the places where the tubes are tangled together. The behavior would be the same as rubber balls (representing the Quarks) connected with twisted rubber bands being separated from each other or placed closer together producing the exact same phenomenon as "Asymptotic Freedom" in protons and neutrons. The force would become greater as the balls are separated, but the force would become less if the balls were placed closer together. Therefore, the gluon is a synthetic particle (zero mass, zero charge) invented to explain the Strong Force. An artificial Christmas tree can hold the ornaments in place, but it is not a real tree. String Theory was not a waste of time, because Geometry is the key to Math and Physics. However, can we describe Standard Model interactions using only one extra spatial dimension? What did some of the old clockmakers use to store the energy to power the clock? Was it a string or was it a spring? What if we describe subatomic particles as spatial curvature, instead of trying to describe General Relativity as being mediated by particles? Fixing the Standard Model with more particles is like trying to mend a torn fishing net with small rubber balls, instead of a piece of twisted twine. Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.” Neils Bohr (lecture on a theory of elementary particles given by Wolfgang Pauli in New York, c. 1957-8, in Scientific American vol. 199, no. 3, 1958) The following is meant to be a generalized framework for an extension of Kaluza-Klein Theory. Does it agree with some aspects of the “Twistor Theory” of Roger Penrose, and the work of Eric Weinstein on “Geometric Unity”, and the work of Dr. Lisa Randall on the possibility of one extra spatial dimension? During the early history of mankind, the twisting of fibers was used to produce thread, and this thread was used to produce fabrics. The twist of the thread is locked up within these fabrics. Is matter made up of twisted 3D-4D structures which store spatial curvature that we describe as “particles"? Are the twist cycles the "quanta" of Quantum Mechanics? When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. ( E=hf, More spatial curvature as the frequency increases = more Energy ). What if Quark/Gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks where the tubes are entangled? (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are a part of the quarks. Quarks cannot exist without gluons, and vice-versa. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Charge" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" are logically based on this concept. The Dirac “belt trick” also reveals the concept of twist in the ½ spin of subatomic particles. If each twist cycle is proportional to h, we have identified the source of Quantum Mechanics as a consequence twist cycle geometry. Modern physicists say the Strong Force is mediated by a constant exchange of Gluons. The diagrams produced by some modern physicists actually represent the Strong Force like a spring connecting the two quarks. Asymptotic Freedom acts like real springs. Their drawing is actually more correct than their theory and matches perfectly to what I am saying in this model. You cannot separate the Gluons from the Quarks because they are a part of the same thing. The Quarks are the places where the Gluons are entangled with each other. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. The twist in the torus can either be Right-Hand or Left-Hand. Some twisted donuts can be larger than others, which can produce three different types of neutrinos. If a twisted tube winds up on one end and unwinds on the other end as it moves through space, this would help explain the “spin” of normal particles, and perhaps also the “Higgs Field”. However, if the end of the twisted tube joins to the other end of the twisted tube forming a twisted torus (neutrino), would this help explain “Parity Symmetry” violation in Beta Decay? Could the conversion of twist cycles to writhe cycles through the process of supercoiling help explain “neutrino oscillations”? Spatial curvature (mass) would be conserved, but the structure could change. ===================== Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons? Does an electron travel through space like a threaded nut traveling down a threaded rod, with each twist cycle proportional to Planck’s Constant? Does it wind up on one end, while unwinding on the other end? Is this related to the Higgs field? Does this help explain the strange ½ spin of many subatomic particles? Does the 720 degree rotation of a 1/2 spin particle require at least one extra dimension? Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons . Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. The production of the torus may help explain the “Symmetry Violation” in Beta Decay, because one end of the broken tube section is connected to the other end of the tube produced, like a snake eating its tail. The phenomenon of Supercoiling involving twist and writhe cycles may reveal how overtwisted quarks can produce these new particles. The conversion of twists into writhes, and vice-versa, is an interesting process, which is also found in DNA molecules. Could the production of multiple writhe cycles help explain the three generations of quarks and neutrinos? If the twist cycles increase, the writhe cycles would also have a tendency to increase. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves. ( Mass=1/Length ) The “Electric Charge” of electrons or positrons would be the result of one twist cycle being displayed at the 3D-4D surface interface of the particle. The physical entanglement of twisted tubes in quarks within protons and neutrons and mesons displays an overall external surface charge of an integer number. Because the neutrinos do not have open tube ends, (They are a twisted torus.) they have no overall electric charge. Within this model a black hole could represent a quantum of gravity, because it is one cycle of spatial gravitational curvature. Therefore, instead of a graviton being a subatomic particle it could be considered to be a black hole. The overall gravitational attraction would be caused by a very tiny curvature imbalance within atoms. In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately 1/137. 1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface 137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted. The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.) How many neutrinos are left over from the Big Bang? They have a small mass, but they could be very large in number. Could this help explain Dark Matter? Why did Paul Dirac use the twist in a belt to help explain particle spin? Is Dirac’s belt trick related to this model? Is the “Quantum” unit based on twist cycles? I started out imagining a subatomic Einstein-Rosen Bridge whose internal surface is twisted with either a Right-Hand twist, or a Left-Hand twist producing a twisted 3D/4D membrane. This topological Soliton model grew out of that simple idea. I was also trying to imagine a way to stuff the curvature of a 3 D sine wave into subatomic particles.

Music background is annoying and at times makes it difficult to understand the speaker

Love science, hate vocal fry

I’ve been assured by my doctor that exposure to that much radiation will likely be fatal, thus it’s better to be behind the science rather than in front of it.

wow, this is really long... head bobbing started around 90 seconds in

If everything was running “so good” at Fermilab, why is the U.S. Department of Energy soliciting for a new contractor to run Fermilab? Fermilab failed its annual DOE performance review. In five of eight main subcategories, the lab earned failing marks.

Perfect $15/hr job for the grad student. Waste of an opportunity to show how they fix/replace/troubleshoot something that was made in the 1960's and 70's. Surely not everything is made within the last 20 years, so it would have been cool to see them have to fix issues with ancient equipment that even CERN uses.

Hahahahaha

So, nobody talking about their government salary, healthcare & pension ?

Fermilab ppl try to do stuff, while CERN are decades ahead. Just embarrassing.

Got any white men?

Well looks like DEI has not let them get the best people for the jobs.

Fermilab is 77% male, so why the woke over representation of women being interviewed?

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