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Oh dear, it’s too true.
Posted in film / tv / music, humour, web on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fridge surgery
Posted in experimental insights, feeling dumb, humour, physics fail on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Take a look at this picture:
Yes I am hacksawing a dilution refrigerator….
One of the entry ports to the IVC has been hardsoldered with a stainless steel placeholder bush. We need to replace this with our custom made copper bush with feedthroughs for coaxes and DC lines. It is virtually impossible to remove this part given [...]
It’s just too cool to be a scientist these days.
Posted in film / tv / music, fun and games, humour, links on October 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Via Pharyngula:
I was thinking after the LHC rap that a QC rap video would be cool to do, but I don’t think anything I could do could possibly match the standards set by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO):
I also now want a giant gold medallion with [...]
Man climbs building with vacuum gloves
Posted in humour, links on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Very cool! We have a building at the University with that same kind of metal cladding. I guess it would work on glass too, although the building would probably have to be clean and shiny.
It’s not cake but it’s close!
Posted in cake, cool physics, humour on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here are some pictures of our Liquid Nitrogen Ice cream endeavours… mmm. Disclaimer: Don’t try this at home unless you have had training in handling cryogenic liquids
Ingredients: Cream, milk or that strange stuff we don’t have over here, sugar, crushed fruit, and liquid nitrogen. Recipe: Stir the sugar into the cream until it [...]
Quantum computing fail…again.
Posted in controversial..., film / tv / music, humour, physics fail, quantum computing on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of Quantum Bayesian Networks, an article entitled “The Quantum Leap of Quantum Computing” on Penny Sleuth. It’s great to see a wider business and market audience becoming interested in QC.
However, this is slightly irritating:
“This means computers would become exponentially more powerful because each “quantum bit” (qubit) could store a much greater range of numbers [...]
Lab tasks which make me wish I was a theorist
Posted in experimental insights, expt vs theory showdown, humour on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s not all fun and games in the lab. Here is a list of the top 10 (in my opinion) most boring tasks that need doing in a Low Temperature device laboratory:
10.) Chiselling ice off the cold traps
You have to do this otherwise you can’t get them out. Some cold traps are better than others, [...]
Happy <holiday name here>
Posted in cake, fun and games, humour, links on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas from Aperture Science
I love Portal. And not just for the cake
Ψ = 1/√2 (|Strawberry> + |Banana>)
Posted in humour on October 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Quantum information sweets And yes, some of them are in flavour superpositions.
