Last friday i finally went down to see the ATLAS pit, home of the biggest experiment ever! 92m under ground… unfortunaltely it’s so big, that it almost fills out the whole cavern, making it hard to get a good view. Anyway, it’s just awesome huge!
Having seen the detector (or at least the parts, that are already down there) I went on to see the BigBang… On Saturday there was the Fete du Lac in Annecy… which was a bit odd, because they locked the whole city, but offered the most impressive fireworks I’ve ever seen. They started out with some choir singing and ended up with 90m of fireworks… bambambigbang! Yeah!
I guess I’ll be disappointed by the Fetes de Geneve firework and/or the New Years Day fireworks in the next years…?!
Category Archives: Physics
Winner
Yeah… like every year there has been a t-shirt design competition for the summer student t-shirt… and guess what!? I won the competition (at least for the front)… CELEBRATION!
CERN talk
Yeah… I’m still alive… and it wasn’t as bad as I expected… Today I had my first “real” talk in the ATLAS InnerDetector CombinedTestBeam meeting at 40-SS-D01 CERN. Which lasted approx. four hours and I was second last… yo! It was actually kind of good, even though I was fr**king nervous. The major players seemed to like it… somehow!
Here are the transparencies if someone is keen on looking at them… you nerds!
Shaun and The Insane Objects
Today I finally made it to the KiwiLab to inspect the awesome work of one of my SummerStudent fellows… “The Insane Object”.
He (Shaun from New Zealand) made the inpossible possible: talking to his power supplies!
And not just that… he even made a “simulation” of The Final War.
I actually have to admit that this is not the only thing he’s doing in his lab (at least that’s what he says). He claims to do some proper work in addition.
btw
kudos Shaun
Am I really a physicist?
One duty of a good experimental physicist is to observe…
But some of my last observations brought up the following question:
“Am I really a physicist?”
To explain this, let me point out my observations…
Following the lectures and looking at some of the students and teachers from all around the world I realized an uncommonly high number of people being left-handed and/or colour-blind???
Since I’m non of it… hmm I don’t know!
The only thing that made me stop quitting the job was the fact that actually most of them are theoreticians… which is something I try to avoid!
So let’s be optimistic and do some work… cu