Long Island scientists are getting ready to transfer the 50-foot-wide electromagnet from NY to its new refuge at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. Its journey is expected to complete in five weeks.

"When we first started thinking about this, we all thought it wouldn't be possible," said Bill Morse, a physicist at Brookhaven National Lab on eastern Long Island on an interview with Idaho State Journal. "But if you have a big problem, you find good people who can fix the problem. That's physics."

This electromagnet weighing 15 tons was built by the scientists of Brookhaven in the 1990s and was the largest in the world. It was made of aluminum and steel with highly sensitive superconducting coils inside. A special designed truck will be used to transport the magnet to its new home which will begin next Saturday.

The scientists said they no longer need it to they decided to give it to the Fermi laboratory that may be able to use it on their Muon g-2 experiment. The experiment is very important as it may discover something new for particle physics.

It is a very expensive move for the electromagnet as the budget reached $3 million. However, the scientists defended that it is reasonable because it will cost $30 million if they create a new one.

It will be a long journey for the magnet as it has to travel from the facility to the front gate of Brookhaven, William Floyd Parkway to Smith Point Park, and head to the East Coast onto a barge passing along the rivers of Mississippi, Illinois and Des Plaines. Once it passes the rivers, a two-day trip onboard a truck will bring it to Fermilab. The scientists are now coordinating with the police officials to ensure security of the electromagnet.