How To Ship A 17-Ton Magnet [Infographic]

Travel Advisories The magnet wouldn't fit through tollbooths, so an all-highway route wouldn't work. And if it fell from a helicopter through power lines, it could cause a blackout. Waterways were the only option. The journey began in June: few hurricanes, no frozen rivers. Courtesy Brookhaven National Laboratory Physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois needed a superconducting magnet to study muons, fleeting subatomic particles. Thirty million dollars for a new experiment...