Photo: Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL
Welcome
to my website! This site is for my 212X Physics II class. Our assignment
is to choose any topic we wish, just as long as it relates to physics.
And as
you can tell the topic that I have decided on is the Fermi
National Accelerator. You know, it wasn't easy picking a topic for this
class, everything we deal with relates to the laws of physics
in one way or another. The first thing about the Fermilab that caught
my eye was the enormous size of the lab compared to the tiny size of
the subatomic
particles
that
are
studied
in the
lab. The
Fermilab has some of the most sophisticated equipment on Earth and it
occupies over ten square miles of land and it is used to study some of
the smallest
particles known to man. But what peeked my interest the most about the
Fermilab was the question they are trying to figure out, "Where
does everything come from?" (Michael S. Witherell, Fermilab Director).
It's an easy question with complicated answers. If that doesn't peek
your interest
then I don't
know
what will.
Here's
a list of everything you can expect to find in this site, so please learn
and enjoy!
1. Brief history of the Fermilab. (page 2)
2. Facts about Fermilab. (page 3)
3. Experiments and findings. (page 4)
4. Enrico Fermi. (page 5)
5. Bibliography. (page 6)
