Einstein’s theory of special relativity is one of the fascinating scientific advances of the 20th century. Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln has decided to make a series of videos describing this amazing idea. In this video, he lays out what relativity is all about… what is the entire point. And it’s not what you think. It’s not about clocks moving slower and objects shrinking. It’s about… well, you’ll have to watch to see.

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The idea of time crystals burst across the media, with ludicrous hopes of time travel and ridiculous rumors of time portals at big international labs around the world. The reality of time crystals is a fascinating scientific advance, but doesn’t rise to the level of the hype. Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains the truth.

This 4-minute animation shows how the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will help scientists understand how the universe works. DUNE will use a huge particle detector a mile underground to embark on a mission with three major science goals: 1.) Study an intense, 1,300-kilometer-long neutrino beam to discover what happened after the big bang: Are neutrinos the reason the universe is made of matter? 2.) Use 70,000 tons of liquid argon to look for proton decay and move closer to realizing Einstein’s dream of a unified theory of matter and energy. 3.) Catch neutrinos from a supernova to watch the formation of neutron stars and black holes in real time. About 1,000 scientists from 160 institutions in 30 countries are working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and South Dakota’s Sanford Underground Research Facility. DUNE collaborators come from institutions in Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

In the world of high energy physics there are several parameters that are important when one constructs a particle accelerator. Two crucial ones are the energy of the beam and the luminosity, which is another word for the number of particles in the beam. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains the differences and the pros and cons. He even works in an unexpected sporting event.

Anyone who has driven a car has an intuitive understanding of how velocities add. Two cars, heading towards one another head-on at a velocity, have a closing velocity of twice that velocity. It’s all very simple and yet at very high speeds this intuition is just wrong.

In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains how to add velocities in a relativistic environment. It’s weird and wonderful and mind-bending.

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The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will use as its primary instrument a 52-foot-wide electromagnet that creates a precise magnetic field. In this video, Fermilab's Brendan Kiburg explains the lengthy process of finely "shimming" that magnetic field into shape. Learn more about the Muon g-2 experiment at http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov. Learn more about Fermilab at http://www.fnal.gov. Learn more about the experiment preparations at http://www.symmetrymagazine.or....g/article/preparing-

The use of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) technology is a driving force in the development of particle accelerators. Scientists from around the globe are working together to develop the newest materials and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of the SRF cavities that are essential for this technology.

For further information on superconducting radio frequency technology, please visit:
Fermilab (http://www.fnal.gov)
Argonne National Laboratory (http://www.anl.gov)
Berkeley National Laboratory (http://www.lbl.gov)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (http://www.bnl.gov)
Jefferson National Laboratory (http://www.jlab.org)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (http://www.ornl.gov)
CERN (http://www.cern.ch)
DESY (http://www.desy.de)
KEK (http://www.kek.jp)
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The PIP-II project http://pip2.fnal.gov is an essential upgrade of Fermilab’s particle accelerator complex and includes the construction of a 215-meter-long linear particle accelerator. It is the first U.S. particle accelerator project with significant contributions from international partners. Research institutions in France, India, Italy and the UK will build major components of the new particle accelerator.

PIP-II will become the new heart of the Fermilab accelerator complex. Its high-intensity proton beams will provide a flexible platform for the long-term future of the Fermilab accelerator complex and the U.S. accelerator-based particle physics program. The upgrade will enable Fermilab’s accelerator complex to generate an unprecedented stream of neutrinos—subtle, subatomic particles that could hold the key to understanding the universe’s evolution—by creating the world’s most intense high-energy neutrino beams. This capability positions Fermilab to be the world leader in accelerator-based neutrino research. It enables the scientific program for the international, Fermilab-hosted Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF). http://www.fnal.gov/dune

Sean Carroll of CalTech speaks at the 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting.
Audio starts at 19 sec, Lecture starts at 2:00

The most famous equation in all of science is Einstein’s E = mc2, but it is also frequently horribly misunderstood and misused. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains the real truth about this equation and how people often use it wrong.

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The Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Laboratory is an X-ray laser that allows scientists to take snapshots of atoms and molecules in motion, revealing fundamental processes in materials, technology and living things. Its strobe-like pulses are just a few millionths of a second long, and a billion times brighter than previous X-ray sources. Fermilab is providing SLAC with 22 cryomodules for the LCLS-II upgrade, which will take X-ray science to the next level, opening the door to a whole new range of studies of the ultrafast and ultrasmall.

Learn more at: http://news.fnal.gov/2018/01/f....ermilab-delivers-fir
http://lcls-ii.fnal.gov/
https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/lcls-ii

The Dark Energy Camera is a 570-Megapixel digital camera being built at Fermilab. Once the mechanics of the support are tested and approved, the unit will be disassembled and shipped to its final assembly and mounting location at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This time-lapse consists of 6 percent of the images captured from January through October of 2010. For information on this international project, see http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/index.shtml

Fermilab CDF experiment representative Barbara Alvarez explains the experiment and the search for the Higgs Boson

The Muon g-2 ring successfully completed its third and final night of offsite moving on July 25 and 26, 2013. A time lapse of the transporter wheel mechanism shows the independent movement. Some of the material has been sped up 6 - 8 x for the sake of brevity. For more information on Fermilab and the Muon g-2 experiment, visit http://www.fnal.gov.

There's so much we still don't know about our universe and how it evolved into the place we call home. Why does matter exist all around us, and how do the tiniest particles fit into the big picture? A worldwide community has embarked on a journey to uncover the secrets of our world with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. The project, powered by the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, will send neutrinos from the host laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, to the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. This video explores the excitement, the science, and the mysteries of DUNE.

Poem: Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy
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Video supported by Fermi Research Alliance and South Dakota Science and Technology Authority

Fermilab Dr. Greg Rakness is a Hero of the LHC for his work in organizing the commissioning and operations of the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the two big LHC detectors.

Many know Micky Dolenz for his work as an actor and musician for the Monkees – but he’s also a huge particle physics fan. Dolenz captured some 16mm footage during a 1970 visit to the burgeoning Fermilab, then known as the National Accelerator Laboratory. In 2018, Dolenz donated the footage to the Fermilab archives, along with a brief introduction to the material. Enjoy this glimpse of America’s particle physics lab in its infancy.

A baby bison was born at Fermilab on April 20, 2017. Here is that story.

In this one-hour public lecture Josh Frieman, director of the Dark Energy Survey, presents an overview of our current knowledge of the universe and describe new experiments and observatories. Over the last two decades cosmologists have made remarkable discoveries: Only 4 percent of our universe is made of ordinary matter - atoms, molecules, etc. The other 96 percent is dark, in forms unlike anything with which we are familiar. About 25 percent is dark matter, which holds galaxies and larger-scale structures together and may be a new elementary particle. And 70 percent is thought to be dark energy, an even more mysterious entity which speeds up the expansion of the universe. Josh Frieman is senior staff scientist at the Fermilab and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. The Dark Energy Survey is a collaboration of 300 scientists from 25 institutions on 3 continents, which built and uses a powerful 570-Megapixel camera on a telescope in Chile to carry out a 5-year survey of 300 million galaxies and thousands of supernovae to probe dark energy and the origin of cosmic acceleration.

More than 180 scientists from 32 institutions are working on the design and construction of the Mu2e experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. On April 18, 2015, the collaboration gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at the lab. The discovery of the direct conversion of a muon to an electron would revolutionize scientists’ understanding of the symmetries underlying the building blocks of our universe and open the door to finding new particles and forces.