Check out the 'Diamond Synchrotron' - what kind of freakishly cool name is that?!?


[news.bbc.co.uk]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2007 10:02PM by OC Not.

I think it is a tremendous name - especially knowing what a synchrotron is. And I think that it is a good use for it. Maybe other such uses will be found.

But I do question the use in the report of the word 'light' in relation to a synchrotron - it is usually ions and ionised particles which get accelerated. How do you accelerate a photon of light? (Without a black Hole?)

I think some of the uninformed might think that it actually hurls bits of diamond around and accelerates them. And maybe it can, but what of the effect on the target? Being hit by bits of diamond travelling at relativistic velocities really would make it the cutting edge of science.

Reading books without opening them has been the talent of university students for centuries. Learning by osmosis I think it is called.

If you are hurling diamonds, I volunteer to be a target!

I have a handy synchrotron relatively next door!
Any one like to borrow it? Brand new!

Wot?

Owned by little old lady, used only on Sundays? never been over quarter light speed?

I'll send some cake over to be used as a target on trial and calibration runs. please advise results in this lifetime.

If some of the weirder hypotheses on time travel, matter conversion and parallel universes that I have read lately are true we should be able to shower all fforumites with adequate lumps of diamonds sufficient to fund the endless supply of Battenberg cake, good cups of tea, better cups of coffee, and tons of dodo food to be supplied at less than relativistic speeds.

Super Collider? I only just met her...

<Makes mental note to get a tougher umbrella>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/16/2007 02:01PM by Bonzai Kitten.

Ah, but which way will you face?

You must know that the quantum effects of nearby Battenberg cake make it almost certain that the marzipan will come from a different direction to the pink crumbly bits.

Learning by osmosis? Education is like dandruff and radiation. You concentrate it and it gets all over you. Sometimes it kills you.

I can drunk by osmosis. I find it @#$%&.

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

You must have seen some REALLY bad cases of dandruff...

Wear UV sunnies to read this message.

Education- I must register high toxicity levels of it, being an Ed student and a student teacher! Watch out!



I think as a kid I used to call some plant that sounded like dandelion (not that particular plant though) "dandruff". Made my Mum laugh every time.

I am still busy wondering what is going to be in those unrolled Dead Sea Scrolls.

In the meantime, I am sure Mycroft is developing a handheld synchrotron. Hard to have one of your own that is as big as 'five football pitches' even though I don't know how long a football pitch is?

Depends.... Proper footy or the American rubbish in body armour and tape?

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Canadian football pitches are different again.

Well, the American version is 100 yards (more if you include the end zones). Have to admit I love that rubbish. It's my dad's fault, the only time I spent with him was Sundays watching the 49ers. I should say, the only time that was not the uncomfortable meetings of report card days...

Proper footy isn't what you think it is, Martin.

That game you are referring too is for girls... :P

They play it with guys though? WOnder how the pitch is marked.... :P

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

sic

sic

Concerning 'football pitches':

Perhaps Mycroft can work on pitches as well.

I remember the Rugby League grounds at Wagga Leagues Club, where they played League, Union (for those to whom this is strange terminology: both a bit like American football, but no armour, no stopping when the ball gets touched, no extras teams on standby, and all injuries cured by beer and whisky), soccer, lacrosse and hockey, as the Leagues Club was the only club financial enough to have good facilities.

At the end of a busy period it looked like some mad CAD operator had just been cleared from the stadium, as there were faint lines, half circles, worn areas, and blood spots all over the field.


It would be good to have an elastic ground which could be stretched to the appropriate dimensions so only one set of lines was needed. The problem with the blood is easily solved. Get some of this mythical 'rain from the sky' and it soaks into the grass and becomes lawn food.

As sport is of religious significance in Oz the ground soaks up the spirit of the warriors and martyrs who have passed that way.