I think I should have become an engineer. I like problem solving, I like building things and dammit, I need an excuse for the CNC mill I want. What prompted this? Well it is the annual laser repair time. For a piece of equipment that cost somewhere between £30k – £50k, you have to wonder …
Category Archives: science
Boredom at work
Boredom at work is a bad thing, it leads to spending a day making things like this work: (taken in late October – no glue or trickery involved. It collapsed seconds after I took the photo)
Extreme Natural Hazards – the review
Some time back in August, Suzie (a friend from a ‘blog elsewhere), mentioned the Royal Society extreme natural hazards meeting that I linked to a few posts ago. I was expecting to be at a loose end by the time it came around so I signed up, as it happened I wasn’t at a loose …
Creatures from the deep
Ok, it isn’t physics but how can I not love an animal who’s name translates from Latin as Bone Eating Snot Flower ? Electron microscope image of the head of the worm Cute isn’t it? More information over at deepsea news and the BBC
More ice and silicon pillars
My work has headed in a slightly different direction over the last couple of weeks, we’ve become much more interested in the nano-scale silicon spikes I described here . We are now pretty sure we can tie together the ice spike phenomenon with the silicon pillar spikes. We have good reason to believe the spikes …