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Physicists featured in NOVA documentary on Einstein's famous equation Huge floodlights cut across the cavernous expanse of the Stanford Linear Detector and illuminate the outer wall of the control room. Coils of artificial fog seethe from a machine hidden at the end of a makeshift plank walkway raised several feet off the floor. The mist floats along the planks and rises toward the ceiling, several stories above the heads of the bustling camera crew. The wall of the control room is a massive grid of switches and multi-colored lights that blink like goblin eyes. The entire space - which houses equipment once used in the world's largest physics collaboration - has assumed an eerie, underworld quality. It is Harry Potter meets particle physics.
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