Seeing the chair being dragged in reminds me of a video I'd love to see again of a child's tubular-steel trike placed in a centrifuge and spun up to Jupiter-like gravity. (University of Delft or Leyden - somewhere like that). Don't worry, the child wasn't on the trike.
(Andy - I very nearly went to work for Varian to work on CAT scanners in the 80s - two ex-Akebians actually did go there)
I can remember as a kid, seeing a photo of a scientist tugging hard on a horizontal rope tied a monkey-wrench, to prevent it clanging into a cryo vessel containing a single magnet about the size of a pen top, but held at superconducting temperatures.
Seeing the chair being dragged in reminds me of a video I'd love to see again of a child's tubular-steel trike placed in a centrifuge and spun up to Jupiter-like gravity. (University of Delft or Leyden - somewhere like that).
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, the child wasn't on the trike.
(Andy - I very nearly went to work for Varian to work on CAT scanners in the 80s - two ex-Akebians actually did go there)
Don't tell me... now they can only travel on the Northern Line
ReplyDeleteHow do you get one of those to play around with?
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I can remember as a kid, seeing a photo of a scientist tugging hard on a horizontal rope tied a monkey-wrench, to prevent it clanging into a cryo vessel containing a single magnet about the size of a pen top, but held at superconducting temperatures.
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