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From Science 2.0:
 I had a dream. So what, we all do. Well, this was particular, because I
remember all of it well, and because it involved a very interesting
situation. I was at Fermilab, in an office on a top-level floor of a
tall building, when a powerful earthquake hit.
This was
supposedly the Fermilab Wilson Hall (aka Hirise), the landmark
administrative building of the Illinois Laboratory (see picture below);
however, as in most dreams, reality was slightly modified. The building
was not shaped like a capital "A", although it shared some distinctive
characteristics with it: like the Hirise it had an internal empty space,
but this was with cylindrical symmetry: it was basycally a cylinder,
sightly narrowing toward the top. Thinking about it, this was sort of
the merging of the Hirise with Building 40 at CERN - which has a central
core which is in fact exactly cylindrical, with an empty center. The
building in the dream however was much taller than either of the two
real-life examples.
As the earthquake struck the building started to oscillate. Being in a
top floor, the oscillations were powerful and scary - it looked like the
concrete of the pillars which lined up around the internal empty space
would shatter. I realized there was no time to try and leave the
building, so I moved close to one of the pillars for increased
protection, and noticed that the movement was a circular oscillation:
the building was twisting around its symmetry axis.
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