On particle accelerators and penguin-balloons...

My last week was filled with trips galore! First was the visit to Cambridge - a talk from an admissions tutor essentially telling us that unless we achieve 97% in our modules we may as well not even bother applying to Cambridge, dinner with ex-pupils who were fortunate enough to achieve said results, and a vaguely maths-related talk to end the evening.

Next came the trip to Diamond - seeing the inner workings (well, not working at the time, fortunately) of a 5MW particle accelerator is pretty inspirational - the planning, thought and effort that goes into keeping a machine like that working at exactly the right frequencies and timings is phenomenal. No pictures, I'm afraid - if anyone else has any I'd be interested.

Last was the DT trip - seeing the "Big Bang Theory" live show (in which Copper ions magically burned red, and Barium ones green...?), being promoted-to by several engineering and tech companies, and seeing some other cool DT-related things:

Bio-mimicry in action - this balloon-robot mimics how penguins move, allowing it to majestically "swim" through the air.

This doesn't even need to be a caption to be awesome.

Those were the highlights of my week,

Charlie

PS Still waiting on electronics for the 3D printer - I haven't forgotten about it...