Random Walk
Linde + Robinson Lab
Saint Petersburg, Russia, may have its Amber Room, but Pasadena, California, has a copper room. Slightly sparser in decoration, the walls of this subbasement chamber in the Linde + Robinson Lab are being filled with foam and clad in copper to create a soundproof, radio-interference-proof room for chemical physicist Mitchio Okumura’s high-precision laser spectroscopy facility, whose measurements will help calibrate satellites monitoring greenhouse-gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere.
