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dishboy
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 		UPDATE: New NRU Press Release
http://www.nru.us/Press_Releases/20030908.htm

Fock Center given go ahead for classes and research. September 8, 2003, 10:33 GMT

After nearly 18 months of construction, several delays, and a total budget of over $750 million, NRU's new state of the art physics research laboratory, the V.A. Fock Center for Theoretical Physics, is almost ready to open its doors to students, faculty, and affiliated government researchers. We recently had the rare opportunity to pin down the chairman of NRU's Physics Department, Dr. Kristoff I. Zeladzny, for a rare statement, in which he shares some information about the new building's layout and features.

"We are extremely proud of the design of the new Center", said Zeladzny. "The facility should allow us to move to the forefront of advanced physics research in America for decades to come. The facility has been carefully laid out to minimize possible disruptions between our current programs, but is also designed modularly to accommodate the needs for future growth and renovation. Disciplines like atomic physics that use vibration sensitive equipment have been located below ground. Conversely, other projects employing vibration-generating equipment, such as high energy and astrophysics, will be housed on the Center's uppermost floors."

The new Physics Center will be well stocked with a full array of the latest scientific equipment, including several lasers, a radio telescope, and a rooftop launch pad for gondolas armed with the most sophisticated astrophysical sensors. But without question, Zeladzny's pride and joy appears to be the facility's particle accelerator – a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). "Our RHIC is one of the largest yet built, with a maximum speed almost 30 percent greater than the one built by Brookhaven Labs in 1997. I expect this machine, and its potential applications will be of great help to us in seeking future government funding for our research efforts. This will give our students and post-graduate research fellows a chance for hands on training that should give them a real leg up on their future job applications."

Because some of NRU's projects involve classified defense applications, interior tours of the facility will not be available to the public after classes begin.
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Fock Center given go ahead for classes and research. September 8, 2003, 10:33 GMT

After nearly 18 months of construction, several delays, and a total budget of over $750 million, NRU's new state of the art physics research laboratory, the V.A. Fock Center for Theoretical Physics, is almost ready to open its doors


Perhaps this is a way of acknowledging the delays in the game and fact that the centre is almost ready to open it's doors perhaps means that things are almost ready to get started....

Keep your eyes peeled folks...

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 		interpretation
I take this posting to be more of a deadline!

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interior tours of the facility will not be available to the public after classes begin

Coupled with...
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Sept. 21 Classes begin

That means to me that we've only got less than two weeks to get the interior details of this new facility.

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 		Yes I quite agree with you...in fact, I emailed the website to see when we can view it, how and if we can view it 'electronically'...since it says it won't be able to be viewed by the PUBLIC AFTER SCHOOL HAS STARTED. Very interesting...

I'll let y'all know what they say, if I get any response at all.

Thanks!

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 		E-mail to NRU Faculty still bouncing
I sent an e-mail to Dr. K. Zeladzney earlier today, it is still getting the "Sobig.f Virus" bounce.
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 		Re: E-mail to NRU Faculty still bouncing
Magesteff wrote:
I sent an e-mail to Dr. K. Zeladzney earlier today, it is still getting the "Sobig.f Virus" bounce.


Oh no...what do we do now? Geez, this is frustrating Shocked

I sent my email to webSPLATnru.us. It hasn't come back yet.
Will keep you informed.

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 		INFO: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Here is a place to find out about the RHIC:
http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC drives two intersecting beams of gold ions head-on, in a subatomic collision. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us understand more about why the physical world works the way it does, from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.


I wonder if the Collider circles the campus because it is pretty big (at least the one at Brookhaven is) - must have kept everyone in town employed:
http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/from_space.htm
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The 2.4-mile circumference RHIC ring is large enough to be seen from space.

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 		Hey Steff...thanks for the info re: the RHIC..I never even thought to research it.

I was looking at the map of the campus, do you suppose the circle around the main buildings are the ring of the RHIC???

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sauceykat wrote:
I was looking at the map of the campus, do you suppose the circle around the main buildings are the ring of the RHIC???


I think that is just one of the roadways around campus.

If the RHIC on campus is as large as the one at Brookhaven, there would only be about a third to half of the circle visible on the campus map. Sure it could be a lot smaller than Brookhaven. Hmm... I'll go take a look at other collider information, see if I can find out what a minimum siz is...
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 		Cool...thanks! Now if I read the article right, this is one of the biggest colliders in the world...

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Our RHIC is one of the largest yet built, with a maximum speed almost 30 percent greater than the one built by Brookhaven Labs in 1997.


Posted the above from the article, quoting Dr Zeladzney...sorry for the stream of conciousness...

I wonder how big that would be then?

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 		Collider size
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Our RHIC is one of the largest yet built, with a maximum speed almost 30 percent greater than the one built by Brookhaven Labs in 1997.

I wonder how big that would be then?



2.4 + 30% (0.72) = 3.12 miles circumfrence?
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 		could be but I think the article is saying that the speed is 30% greater than that of Brookhaven labs....but we know it's bigger or atleast the same size if it's one of the biggest in the world...

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sauceykat wrote:
could be but I think the article is saying that the speed is 30% greater than that of Brookhaven labs....but we know it's bigger or atleast the same size if it's one of the biggest in the world...


Must have more magnets... which would need a longer tube to fit them in, which would make the circumfrence larger....
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Magesteff wrote:

Must have more magnets...


or more power?

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