To re-introduce the concept, this is a new segment where I write about people who jump-start my imagination and remind me
how crazy life really is. The older I get, the more necessary it seems to do that, so I'm starting to make a habit of it early.

With no further adieu, Hero of the Week goes to ____________.  The blank space, and ambiguity surrounding
the particulars of this post reflects the ambiguity in its subject's legal standing. The man who has built the machine you see below
is a friend of a friend (these photos have been e-mailed to me from his iPhone). The machine is a particle separator / neutrino generator.
What's a Neutrino? Just one of the fundamental particles that make up the Universe, duh. This man built this thing himself right here in Brooklyn!
(I'll leave the exact coordinates out, again, in the name of that gray area between lawful and unlawful where so many life-affirming things seem to reside.
Plus, would you really want to know you were sleeping right above this thing?). 

Flipping the 'On' switch will feed over 10,000 volts into the plasma cloud inside the vacuum chamber.
DIY neutrino machine!? You're my hero!