Sergei Nagaitsev Sergei Nagaitsev, head of the Accelerator Division, wrote this column. “All is number,” Pythagoras declared, making himself likely the first person to say that the physical world could be described by the language of mathematics. We certainly have many numbers that describe our world at Fermilab: budgets, hours of operation, beam power, protons on target. The numbers describe nearly everything, but not quite. This week we are finishing up the six-week accelerator complex shutdown, on schedule. The shutdown…
