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I love the illustration - http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/images/standard/SolenoidMagnet_Scale_Illustration.jpg http://www.symmetrymagazine.

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• duskwuff 12y ago
  The BaBar project at SLAC was named after the particles it was studying: B (the B meson) and B-bar (its antiparticle). The elephant was an old joke: the mascot of the project was Babar the Elephant, a character from an old French children's book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant I imagine that the use of an elephant in this illustration (and in the introduction to the article!) is a reference to the old project mascot. :)
  • lotsofmangos 12y ago
    I just imagined someone intent on world domination waking up in their secret cave after a heavy night drinking, looking at this and trying desperately to remember what they were planning to do after magnetizing the elephant.