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PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA—Last month, SLAC Labs (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) reached its golden anniversary. After 50 years of operation the organization has built up quite a résumé. For instance, it claims six different Nobel prize-winning scientists for research that discovered two different fundamental particles. And today the facility keeps on churning out science: 1,000-plus papers come out of SLAC each year from the roughly 3,400 scientific professionals from across the world that utilize the facility.

Despite all the incredible work that has taken place within its walls, SLAC has rarely been open for media members to see (understandable, since a particle accelerator could get a tad dangerous). But on its most recent milestone, SLAC shut the power down for an afternoon in order to invite Ars and others in for a look (some Stanford staff members eagerly joined for their first glimpse, too). I'm not an expert in particle physics by any means, but I jumped at the chance to partake in this rare treat. Below are some images of the crazy things found within these intensely private walls.

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