SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Going back to the San Francisco Bay Area, it's an extremely radioactive environment.

It's been polluted from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, activities on the UC Berkeley campus, the Naval Radiological Defense Lab, even Stanford, the SLAC experimental apparatus is exposing the population in the city of Palo Alto who live along the slack.

It's got a very long accelerator path and people living at the end of that accelerator are being exposed as well as along it to particles that are spalling out of the accelerator.

So we also are being contaminated in the Bay Area.

During about six weeks of early testing, the observatory discovered more than 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, including 33 near-Earth objects and 380 trans-Neptunian objects.

That's according to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

That's all for now.

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It took a further intellectual leap though, for me at least, to cotton on to the fact that light not only circulates within every material particle or object, it actually forms those same entities This was brought home to me firstly by studying the numerous research studies that show light transmuting into matter, and vice versa, as well as of course that unforgettable mass-energy relationship E equals mc squared.

It was soon after this that I found info on the Bright-Wheeler process which passed from hypothetical to actual in 1997 when scientists at SLAC converted pure light into matter-antimatter pairs in a series of steps.

The icing was put on the cake in 2021 by scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Iron Collider at the US Brookhaven National Laboratory, who achieved single-step conversion of pairs of photons into pairs of particles .

Further confirmation of this remarkable relationship between light and matter, i.e. matter is light, circulating locally almost at a point, came about through a process of logical reasoning followed up with some high school level maths.

And So my dad's a scientist.

He's actually an engineering physicist at SLAC, at the linear accelerator at Stanford.

That's how we got to come to this country.

So I grew up in a family of scientists.

Eventually, though, Gelman almost gives up on the idea because they've not been able to see these things experimentally.

But the idea is rescued by this very large three kilometre long accelerator that's built in California, the Stanford Linear Accelerator, which accelerates electrons to very, very high energies just below the speed of light, and they fire them at protons and neutrons.

And in doing this, they see that the electrons are scattered off small objects inside protons and neutrons.

So this shows that actually protons, neutrons, and all this zoo of particles are made of a small number of particles called

For example, Carnegie Mellon is providing some of this shared infrastructure as well as Slack, the national lab.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab.

Yep.

Is giving some of the infrastructure around these pieces.

Now we are going to move on to a highly accomplished theoretical physicist.

Michael Peskin has been a professor at Stanford University for decades, working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

He is also a co-author of the single most widely used graduate textbook on quantum field theory.

You'll be hard pressed to find almost anyone better qualified to discuss the status of theoretical physics than Michael,

In this case, this is a picture shown on our early work, but we did that on a hidden page.

We did this work in February at Slack, which has one of those really great synchrotron sources, which produces very powerful X-ray beams.

And the object was a lost star catalog by one of the great Greek astronomers with the name of Hipparchus.

He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precision of the equinoxes.

This is not something which we really know.

But recently, in 2022, my colleague Victor Gisonbert and his colleagues have found in a Palimpsest page over in a Christian biblical text hidden they discovered four of the star coordinates by Hipparchus and Victor listened to a talk which I gave two years ago and we joined up and he came with his team with these pages from the Museum of the Bible they own this Palimpsest book where her father's work is supposedly hidden.

And they came with it to Slack, and we were starting to use our imaging technique to look at it.

This is the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt, where this prayer book was found originally.