Last week I went off to ISIS at RAL to fire neutrons at layers of fats and dye to find out how they stick together.I now have to crunch the data to see if we learned anything useful.
I took some photos of the particle accelerator (while standing on top of it) and the neutron source.
Archive for the ‘Tech stuff’ Category
Neutrons
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009wooyay!
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Unix time just hit 1234567890 seconds since midnight Coordinated Universal Time January 1 1970
Oddments
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Spotted in the adverts in this months Radcom.
LHC
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008It worked!
Clockwise and anti-clockwise beams though the ring with minimal tweeking of the focus and steering parameters. Yay!
Geekery.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008A few days ago I built a radio receiver out of junk, because my usual radio had died a death and I wanted to listen to a specific part of the shortwave bands around 3.5 – 4 MHz.
Last night I scanned up and down the band and located what sounded like a fax transmission, a short while later and I’d recorded several minutes of the signal. A litter later still and I’d decoded it using some software I wrote nearly 10 years ago.
It looks a little messy, but it is quite obviously a weather map showing iso-bars and weather fronts over the Atlantic, the UK and Europe. Not bad for random DIY experiments.