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----------------------------------------------- The Big Physics Bus Tour Inside the Nobel prize-winning wide-open spaces of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center by, Kristin Abkemeier 28 March 2007 My eyes adjusted to the dim tunnel a couple of beats after I stepped inside from the brilliant midsummer California sky. A brief glance ahead found a tangle of ductwork and instrumentation before me. Then my eyes zoomed off down the endless corridor of the longest, straightest building in the world, built snugly into the dry grasslands here at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The view was a perfect illustration of one-point perspective, straight out of a drawing textbook: Vertical supports, ceiling, and floor all blurred into diagonal lines converging at a distant vanishing point. Of course, the only vanishing… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-big-physics-bus-tour/
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