The 50-foot-wide , 15-ton magnet is now at a lab on the East Coast . The voyage , scheduled to begin on Saturday and end in July , will send the metal behemoth on a journey on trucks and barges . It needs to get to a lab near Florida , where it will help measure subatomic particles . The barge-and-truck trip will go down Long Island , around Chicago and up from the Gulf . The trip is scheduled to begin July .
The 50-foot-wide , 15-ton magnet is now at a lab on the East Coast . It needs to get to a lab near Florida , where it will help measure subatomic particles . The barge-and-truck trip will go down Long Island , around Chicago and up from the Gulf . The trip is scheduled to begin July .