Any thoughts on the 87A timestamps that have been found in section 2?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basse_danse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiola

So here goes, the symbols that are part of the 2nd portion, they bear resemblance to some of the symbols from the Rosetta Stone. I googled Fermilab and Rosetta Stone together and the hits don’t mean anything to me however they could mean something to someone with more knowledge.

If this is a crazy idea I apologize in advance!

Personally I believe the reference to ‘basse’ to not be a typo. There are 16 stories at the Fermilab building.

A number of employees below (basse)the 16th floor in the Central Lab building, specifically the Controls Group responsible for interfacing. I believe the Cryptic found in the center of this letter refers specifically to the Controls Group and the … The Main Ring / Accelerator.

“The earth was firm and the atmosphere bright as the formal start of work began on the main accelerator enclosure for the world’s largest scientific instrument – the 200 Billion Electron Volt proton synchrotron. The Main Accelerator enclosure will cover an area approximately four miles in circumference and 1.24 miles in diameter on the 6,800acre NAL grounds.”

^^ Your true answer to what Shoemaker would consider.. Noise.

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About the controls group:

“Right on the heels of the workmen completing Phase I of the Central Laboratory high-rise building, came the first NAL employees to move in to the ground floor in the industrial area — the Controls group of the Accelerator Section.

Deeply and closely involved in producing the control systems for all of the accelerators, and in the Main Ring in particular at the moment, the 19 technicians represent a consolidation of five groups previously associated with the Beam Transfer, Booster, Linac, Main Ring, and R.F. Sections. Under the direction of Bob Daniels, Controls Commissioner, the united group now has space to work, producing the components that will give interface between the accelerators and the computers – the Sigma 2 in the main control room and the Mac 16′s interspersed throughout the systems. When they have finished Main Ring modifications and maintenance, they will turn to controls for the neutrino and meson experimental lines.

Working in the midst of the array of electronic equipment that is the mark of their trade — livened by the spools of colored wire, the soldering irons, and the many, many circuit boards — the group, under the immediate supervision of Tony Tummillo, is getting the job done in spite of the heavy construction that goes on over their heads. Phase II of the building construction, now underway, will extend the building upward to the l6th floor and the top out. A tunnel, also completed, connects the high-rise to the Cross Gallery.

A “hats off!” to the Controls group who work under conditions somewhat less than ideal — sometimes without power and heat; sometimes with water dripping on their desks — to add their important contribution to the completion of the Laboratory.”

– Sourced from: History and Archives Project

If you take that, and turn it into trinary code like the rest, you get a really strange pattern. (replacing letters with zero and numbers with 1, or vice versa)

101 100 101 100 010 010 100 010 011 or
010 011 010 011 101 101 011 101 100

Notice a lot of the groupings are repeated… converting these to letters using the already determined code gives me gibberish though:

JIJICCICD or
CDCDJJDJI

Seems far too coincidental to be ignored though…