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.

The theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) is perhaps the most precisely tested physics theory ever conceived. It describes the interaction of charged particles by emitting photons. The most precise prediction of this very precise theory is the magnetic strength of the electron, what physicists call the magnetic moment. Prediction and measurement agree to 12 digits of precision. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln talks about this amazing measurement.

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While the LHC is currently the highest energy particle accelerator ever built, nothing is forever. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln discusses a new particle accelerator currently under discussion. This accelerator will dwarf the LHC, fully 60 miles around and will accelerate protons to seven times higher energy. The project is merely in the discussion stages and it is a staggering endeavor, but it is the next natural step in our millennium long journey to understand the universe.

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.

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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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

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.

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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.

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.

Every spring new baby bison are born into the Femilab "buffalo" herd. In 2009, six calves were born. The young calves appear in a cinnamon-colored coat for the first few months. By four months of age, they are dark brown like the adults in the herd. Fermilab Visual Media Services was able to move into the herd, among the newborn, with the help of the herdsman, in a truck that is familiar to the bison.

Why I Love Neutrinos is a series spotlighting those mysterious, abundant, ghostly particles that are all around us. This installment features Mark Thomson, professor of physics at the University of Cambridge. For more information on neutrinos, visit the Fermilab website at http://www.fnal.gov.

A short animation to show how a Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chamber can detect a neutrino based upon the neutrino's interaction with an argon atom.

Fermilab researchers Heidi Schellman and Ann Heinson take a whimsical look at the recent announcement of the discovery of the single top quark, by Fermilab's CDF and DZero experiments.