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>> Katie Yurkewicz: This is a huge day for
the lab.
You know, if you'd asked us about two months
ago if we thought we'd get two thousand people
out to the lab to watch a giant magnet arrive,
we never would have believed it.
But we were so amazed by the response we had
to this
and how many people came out to see  it.
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>> Chris Polly: It's amazing to see the culmination
of this and this piece of equipment from Brookhaven
arriving today. It's had to go, you know,
by sea, by river, by land,
through thirty miles of Chicago suburbs,
down two interstates
... it's amazing.
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The way to think about this magnet, it's really
just a racetrack for the muons.
We inject them into this electromagnet and
they stay confined, traveling like in a racetrack
while we study their properties.
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The response of the public, I just can't believe
that three to four thousand people
were out  here today just to see this electromagnetic
- this electromagnet arrive.
>> Katie Yurkewicz: I've talked to a number
of people who have come out to see this.
Everyone  keeps saying how
it's a once in a lifetime event.
You know they really felt like they had
to come out and see it,
no matter what. We've had families here,
we've had a taxi driver
who came in his taxi, he had his uniform on,
and he said 'I just had to take a couple of
hours off and come see this move,
because I didn't feel like I could miss it.'
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