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Volunteers set out to pick up trash during the 2023 Earth Day Campus Cleanup held at Jefferson Lab on Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Chemistry Technician Paige Wesley cleans various components while working inside the Production Chemistry Room at Jefferson Lab on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Chief of Staff Josh Shiode, bottom row, meet with Jefferson Lab the research and technology partnerships office during a visit to Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Mar. 24, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Local teachers and educators learn new lesson plans and classroom experiments during the 2023 Teacher Night—for elementary and middle school teachers—hosted by the Science Education Department at Jefferson Lab on Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Often described as a "science fair for teachers,” this event allows educators to see new methods for teaching physical science concepts, win door prizes for their classrooms and earn one recertification point.
Hall B Electro-Mech Technician Steve Docherty, left Detector Fabrication Technician Morgan Cook, center, Hall A/C Mechanical Engineer Whit Seay, right, working on the upper service platform. The CLEO_II Superconducting Solenoid Magnet which is being refurbished inside the SRF Test Lab for the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) experiment at Jefferson Lab on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
From left: Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, Congressman Bobby Scott, and Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, listen as Hall B Physicist Latifa Elouadrhiri, right, during a tour of Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Review members take a tour of North Linac tunnel during the EIC OPA Review tour on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Tour Coordinator Mike Robbins, center, prepares attendees for a tour of Jefferson Lab during the joint DOE/NIH Workshop: Advancing Medical Care through Discovery in the Physical Sciences Workshop Series on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Technicians work on setting up the vacuum pumping station on the CLEO_II Superconducting Solenoid Magnet, which is being refurbished inside the SRF Test Lab for the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) experiment at Jefferson Lab on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Instrumentation cable tray leading form the CLEO_II magnet to the local control rack. The CLEO_II Superconducting Solenoid Magnet is being refurbished inside the SRF Test Lab for the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) experiment at Jefferson Lab on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
A herd of deer graze the campus at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Members of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) tour the accelerator tunnel at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Jefferson Lab Data Center as U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe visits JLab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Mar. 24, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
The standalone Heat Exchanger (HX) which uses LN2 to cool and regulate 300K He gas cooling the CLEO_II magnet from room temperature to 80K in a control fashion to reduce thermal stress on the magnet and its LN2 shield. The CLEO_II Superconducting Solenoid Magnet is being refurbished inside the SRF Test Lab for the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) experiment at Jefferson Lab on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the poster session during the Jefferson Lab User Organization (JLUO) Annual Meeting on Monday, Jun 26, 2023. (Lorelei Carlson | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the poster session during the Jefferson Lab User Organization (JLUO) Annual Meeting on Monday, Jun 26, 2023. (Lorelei Carlson | Jefferson Lab)
Unassembled cryomodules wait for further work inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.
Panelists include Kerem Camsari (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Sabrina Hong (Quantum Google AI), Matt McEwen (PhD student, Quantum Foundry), Seamus O'Hara (PhD Student, Quantum Foundry).
Erik Lucero (Quantum Google AI) will moderate.
Orange smoke of nitrogen dioxide begins to form as Chemistry Technician Teena Harris uses an acid bath inside the Production Chemistry Room at Jefferson Lab on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
SciEd Summer Student Thuy Nguyen and her mentor Mechanical Engineer Joseph Meyers work on science equipment in the Magnet Shop at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., July 9, 2025. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)
A deer stands in a spot of warm light as the sun begins to set on Jefferson Lab’s campus in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Richard P Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics.
He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale).
Feynman is also known for his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? Regarded as an eccentric and a free spirit, he was also known as a prankster, juggler, a proud amateur painter and bongo player who liked to pursue multiple, seemingly unrelated, paths, such as biology, art, percussion, Maya hieroglyphs, and lock picking.
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While Six Easy Pieces, Feynman's "introduction" to physics, is pretty heavy going, his two autobiographies are a great place to start. An absolutely fascinating and highly amusing look at the life of a remarkable and unique character. And, thankfully, no knowledge of physics is required.
Winter 2023 meeting of the GlueX Collaboration members pose for a photography on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
The Jefferson Lab User Organization satellite meeting held on Sunday, April 16, 2023. (Contributed Photo | Jefferson Lab)
Local teacher Brandy Bergenstock chats with another educator during the 2023 Teacher Night—for elementary and middle school teachers—hosted by the Science Education Department at Jefferson Lab on Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Often described as a "science fair for teachers,” this event allows educators to see new methods for teaching physical science concepts, win door prizes for their classrooms and earn one recertification point.
Volunteers set out to pick up trash during the 2023 Earth Day Campus Cleanup held at Jefferson Lab on Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Local teachers and educators learn new lesson plans and classroom experiments during the 2023 Teacher Night—for elementary and middle school teachers—hosted by the Science Education Department at Jefferson Lab on Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Often described as a "science fair for teachers,” this event allows educators to see new methods for teaching physical science concepts, win door prizes for their classrooms and earn one recertification point.
Jefferson Lab employees work to move a newly finished C100 cryomodule from the SRF Test lab to installing inside the CEBAF accelerator tunnel at Jefferson Lab in Newport News Va., on May 4, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Volunteers set out to pick up trash during the 2023 Earth Day Campus Cleanup held at Jefferson Lab on Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
From the late 1920s onward, Eddington's technical efforts were increasingly devoted to what later acquired the name of an unfinished but posthumously published book "Fundamental Theory" (1946). In this respect he was not unlike his contemporary Einstein (or for that matter Faraday, nearly 100 years earlier) in seeking a theory that would unify the electromagnetic interactions, governed by quantum mechanics, and gravity, described by general relativity. The practically unanimous verdict of scientific posterity is that Eddington, like Einstein, failed. The major difference between them, though, is that Einstein was well aware of his failure, whilst Eddington thought that he was on the way to succeeding. The basis for his optimism was his apparent derivation of some of the fundamental constants of physical science. Eddington thought he had a proof that the inverse of the fine structure constant (the dimensionless constant formed from the values h, c and e, that governs the strength of radiative interactions in atoms) is precisely 137. The currently accepted value is 137.04. He also thought that the number of protons in the universe could be derived exactly2[5]:
Review members take a tour of North Linac tunnel during the EIC OPA Review tour on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Design Engineer Naeem Huque, left, and Mechanical Installation Technologist Mark Weihl, right, work inside a mobile clean room to install a LCLS-HE power coupler into a cyromodule at the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Dec. 7, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Seen inside mobile clean room to install a LCLS-HE power coupler into a cyromodule at the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Dec. 7, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Aerial photograph of Jefferson Lab's campus in Newport News, Va., on Aug. 5 2011. (Jefferson Lab Photos)
Local teachers and educators learn new lesson plans and classroom experiments during the 2023 Teacher Night—for elementary and middle school teachers—hosted by the Science Education Department at Jefferson Lab on Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Often described as a "science fair for teachers,” this event allows educators to see new methods for teaching physical science concepts, win door prizes for their classrooms and earn one recertification point.
Local teachers and educators learn new lesson plans and classroom experiments during the 2023 Teacher Night—for elementary and middle school teachers—hosted by the Science Education Department at Jefferson Lab on Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Often described as a "science fair for teachers,” this event allows educators to see new methods for teaching physical science concepts, win door prizes for their classrooms and earn one recertification point.
Local teachers and educators learn new lesson plans and classroom experiments during the 2023 Teacher Night—for elementary and middle school teachers—hosted by the Science Education Department at Jefferson Lab on Apr. 19, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Often described as a "science fair for teachers,” this event allows educators to see new methods for teaching physical science concepts, win door prizes for their classrooms and earn one recertification point.
Virginia Economic Development Association (VEDA) members tour the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
The central bore of the magnet serves as a temporary storage container while preparation work is underway. Bore will be cleared of items before magnet is energized. The CLEO_II Superconducting Solenoid Magnet is being refurbished inside the SRF Test Lab for the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) experiment at Jefferson Lab on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Jefferson Lab employees work to move a newly finished C100 cryomodule from the SRF Test lab to installing inside the CEBAF accelerator tunnel at Jefferson Lab in Newport News Va., on May 4, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Hall B Electro-Mech Technician Steve Docherty, left, Detector Fabrication Technician Morgan Cook, center, and Hall B Technologist/Design Drafter Dontre Tucker work on setting up vacuum pumps. The CLEO_II Superconducting Solenoid Magnet is being refurbished inside the SRF Test Lab for the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) experiment at Jefferson Lab on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Einstein in Prague, an ordinary day in the late 1910s. The wise man looks through the window overhead a snow-covered pavement. A wall runs along the street bounding a spacious garden in which plants and trees are left to grow disorderly. From his vantage point he sometimes sees men in isolation deeply engaged in soundless meditation, walking absent-minded to the rest of the world. Sometimes, however, he sees men gathered together in groups vividly discussing matters he can't guess. Someone tells him that the garden he faces is the recreational area of a sanatorium. He thinks to himself that the men he sees from the window are the madmen not working in quantum mechanics.
[For Claudia, for her kind words.]
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Large dipole magnets are seen inside the North Linac tunnel during a tour on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Having been at work in a university city for a few days, I left the office and dropped into a local bar / pizza place for a bite to eat. On the table next to me were a group of guys enjoying a beer - and an enthusiastic and animated conversation. In such a situation you might expect the topic to be cars or sport or or the like. Not here. The topic was Quantum Mechanics. Due to my proximity it was hard not to eavesdrop - but they needn't have worried, I didn't understand an equation they said. Nevertheless I'm sure I felt a vicarious increase in brain power as the conversation of the intelligentsia drifted across the room. A world so close, yet so far.