Large Hardon Collider

[BerenTebogo]

All the better to kick the ass of whatever is in your way.

[Max™]

http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r...TRexCowboy.jpg

[Mizango]

You really can't go wrong with WWHMRTRD

You really cant. Best advice ever.

[Mizango]

Also, wanted to show you guys this.

http://www.physorg.com/news205161948.html

[Max™]

Saw news about the attempts a couple weeks ago, neat stuff.

I got a chuckle at the picture of the single atom with an "Enlarge" button in the bottom left corner.

[Eliseos]

Oh god, get Rubidium 85 the fuck out. The current lab I'm working on is testing the Zeeman effect by optical pupming in a combined Rb85 and Rb87 material, and it is such a fucking bitch. I can post pics here of the setup later and on facebook, but the magnetic field doesn't have any outside protection so I have to manually balance the Earth's magnetic field in the room, make sure no metal is nearby, make sure no one even walks past it while the experiment is running, and wait 4 minutes at a time for the optical pumping to finish. The equipment I have to use is ancient.

Sorry Miz, as soon as I read Rubidium it brought up bad memories of my Tuesday and Thursday afternoons

[Mizango]

rofl I understand.

[Max™]

50 years from now:

"Daddy, why does grandpa hate Rubidium so much?"

[Psion]

50 years from now:

"Daddy, why does grandpa hate Rubidium so much?"

Thank you max, for nearly making me spit out my drink on my keyboard laughing.

[Eliseos]

Anddddd pictures, more on Tuesday:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._4287448_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2582113_n.jpg

Comment on the top picture "The further oscilloscope is only 5 years older than me, the signal generator and frequency counter on the far right are older than me, the actual experiment on the far left has no outside magnetic shielding, so anyone walking past will mess up the results."

[Woozie]

Dude, after I took my lab classes I vowed that I'd never see any of that equipment again for as long as I live.

I'm pretty sure the Bushido code says I have to kill myself now.

[Max™]

http://www.samurai-swords-for-sale.c...rai-swords.jpg

Here, use this, it's sharp as fuck.

Also: that lab is quite geeky, I've got a rubbery nerd-on now.

[Kaylia]

Why physics labs always look like they come from the past, when physics is supposed to be the most advanced science?



This labs look so much like the one at my school. Old wooden table, old oscilloscope (or w/e is the english name), old tv, same gray locker with old shit no one ever use.

[Max™]

Because as cool as shit like this is:
http://www.guilford.edu/physics/232/tesla.jpg

That's gonna get your funding cut in less time than a stray particle from a linear accelerator would take to whiz past this sentence.

[Eliseos]

Dude, after I took my lab classes I vowed that I'd never see any of that equipment again for as long as I live.

I'm pretty sure the Bushido code says I have to kill myself now.

See, at least with engineering classes, they pay for the good equipment (but I can't prove it until next semester). All the oscilloscopes I use for my EE classes, they are only a couple years old. Same thing with the multimeters and function generators. There's a box that has "UWM Physics- Electrical experiments" dated 1985 in the room we use for my physics experiments. I had no intention of opening it.

[Mizango]

Why physics labs always look like they come from the past, when physics is supposed to be the most advanced science?



This labs look so much like the one at my school. Old wooden table, old oscilloscope (or w/e is the english name), old tv, same gray locker with old shit no one ever use.

Exactly! You'd think Newton worked out of ours as well lol. Old wooden, creeky chairs, the wooden tables that mysterious "smell" of aged beechwood percolating throughout the labs...... Man I thought it was just me hahaha

[Kryssan]

A lot of the equipment we're using at my current workplace comes from WWII handmedowns. There are even little gold placards on some of the equipment telling you that they were made in the 40s. Our 'digital multimeters' are Keithley 175-AVs. Don't even get me started on the Huntron Guesser... I mean Tracker. Pisses you off every time you see the contractors walking around with their minicomputeresque yellow Flukes.


If it makes you feel any better, nuclear reactors make Rubidium as a byproduct of the fission process. Doesn't that just make you wanna be a nuke?

[Eliseos]

As long as I don't have to optically pump it

[BerenTebogo]

Any of you guys done this http://www.uphysicsc.com/home.html?

Says that it's open to people who have done one year of university physics (basically physics 1 and 2) but I'm in my school's SPS and they're thinking about making a team, if there is a spot I'd consider doing it if anyone has any experience with it / thinks it's something I'd be capable of. Seems interesting :Q

[Eliseos]

That's almost as bad as being a mathlete. I know we're all nerds here, but that would be probably the nerdiest thing ever. I'm picturing that being like the competition on the Big Bang Theory.