Large Hadron Collider..(Pah!)

[discobob]

@elgreco https://www.rolex.com/watches/milgauss.html?ef_id=CjwKCAjwsJ6TBhAIEiwAfl4TWMT6qx4Su3buNJVRoQdJgA4LgcVqjX40bh9MDZ0ygJXaV2JBb0SJwxoCYMoQAvD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!141!3!520369056645!e!!g!!rolex milgauss

But I am sure that you have looked - very nice BTW

 

[Cosmicblue]

It's very hard to justify this cost of these things - there is no justification at all.

My father, who sadly died in his mid 50s some 35 years ago , was a nuclear physicist specialising in metallurgy at Harwell - then the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, south of Oxford.  I can recall him saying that these kinds of tools set out to redefine our understanding of the basic building blocks of physics and that means everything around us - and ourselves at an atomic particle level.  That eternal question we start off with as children 'but why?'.

Sometimes the human race makes enormous leaps in the use of technology because our understanding of something is suddenly massively enhanced.   Back when I was a lad in the 1960s I can remember going into Harwell on an open day and seeing a laser for the first time - they were demonstrating using one to cut a steel plate.  The truth was that it was literally a 'solution looking for a problem' which at the time was all it was - a techno novelty.

Roll forward 20 years or so and the compact disc (CD) appeared, CD's are read using a laser beam - our understanding had evolved.

Edited April 26, 2022 by Cosmicblue

[London Best]

12 minutes ago, Cosmicblue said:

It's very hard to justify this cost of these things - there is no justification at all.

My father, who sadly died in his mid 50s some 35 years ago , was a nuclear physicist specialising in metallurgy at Harwell - then the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, south of Oxford.  I can recall him saying that these kinds of tools set out to redefine our understanding of the basic building blocks of physics and that means everything around us - and ourselves at an atomic particle level.  That eternal question we start of with as children 'but why?'.

Sometimes the human race makes enormous leaps in the use of technology because our understanding of something is suddenly massively enhanced.   Back when I was a lad in the 1960s I can remember going into Harwell on an open day and seeing a laser for the first time - they were demonstrating a using one to cut a steel plate.  The truth was that it was literally a 'solution looking for a problem' which at the time was all it was - a techno novelty.

Roll forward 20 years or so and the compact disc (CD) appeared, CD's are read using a laser beam - our understanding had evolved.

Why doesn’t the laser beam cut the plastic compact disc?

[discobob]

26 minutes ago, London Best said:

Why doesn’t the laser beam cut the plastic compact disc?

because it is polite 😉

it is all down to the wavelength (colour) and the power

[London Best]

2 minutes ago, discobob said:

because it is polite 😉

it is all down to the wavelength (colour) and the power

Out of my pay grade!

[mel b3]

1 hour ago, London Best said:

Why doesn’t the laser beam cut the plastic compact disc?

Different lasers do Different things .

Lasers were once the stuff of boys magazines,  these days you can buy one from pound land.

Science is pretty amazing ( although I don't understand most of it ) . Just look at genetics and the understanding of DNA. 

 

[ditchman]

2 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

Different lasers do Different things .

Lasers were once the stuff of boys magazines,  these days you can buy one from pound land.

Science is pretty amazing ( although I don't understand most of it ) . Just look at genetics and the understanding of DNA. 

 

yours is ginger DNA..................the species change /evolve

[discobob]

1 minute ago, mel b3 said:

Just look at genetics and the understanding of DNA. 

They still can't fully explain people from Norfolk though!!

Apparently @ditchman is donating his body to medical science to help - it is already pickled so saves halve the job 😁

[mel b3]

5 minutes ago, discobob said:

They still can't fully explain people from Norfolk though!!

Apparently @ditchman is donating his body to medical science to help - it is already pickled so saves halve the job 😁

You'd think they'd be easy to explain,  as they all have the same DNA 😁.

Pickled ginger 😄.

[discobob]

7 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

You'd think they'd be easy to explain,  as they all have the same DNA 😁.

I believe they are trying to find out which came first - the Chicken or the Egg

[ditchman]

1 hour ago, discobob said:

I believe they are trying to find out which came first - the Chicken or the Egg

reminds me of my favourite chat up line......."how do you like your eggs in the morning........fried or fertilized..."

[amateur]

14 minutes ago, ditchman said:

reminds me of my favourite chat up line......."how do you like your eggs in the morning........fried or fertilized..."

Did it ever work though?

[discobob]

36 minutes ago, amateur said:

Did it ever work though?

ask his sis........................... 😆

Sorry @ditchman- I couldn't resist it 

Edited April 26, 2022 by discobob

[mel b3]

48 minutes ago, amateur said:

Did it ever work though?

As if you need to ask . With an old smoothie like ditchie , the pants were off before he'd finished asking the question 😁

[ditchman]

42 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

As if you need to ask . With an old smoothie like ditchie , the pants were off before he'd finished asking the question 😁

the phantom gussitt gobbler strikes again