The Problem With the Quantum Accelerator

In the late 1960s when Batavia Illinois's Fermilab was still known as the National Accelerator Laboratory. The completion of a particle accelerator hung in the balance while the miles long stainless steel tube was successfully pieced together on schedule and within the $250 million budget. Its operators soon ran into trouble. Damp thing wouldn't start inside the ring shaped 200 billion electron volt proton synchrotron particle accelerator. Something went awryer materials were too expensive. When the team turned to him in their penultimate moment of need, he had an idea. Hailing from Yorkshire where hunting was commonplace, Bob was familiar with the use of ferrets as a means of flushing