A team at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois have successfully used a beam of the near-massless particles to transmit the word “neutrino” to a detector 1 km away, including a 240-metre journey through solid rock. Read Article
My original post ‘Neutrino Communication’ from September 2011.
Add comment October 31st, 2012
I am watching this with interest, the United States are getting prepared for the worse with Meteorologists predicting a “Frankenstorm” (referenced to the fact that Halloween falls on Wednesday) as it merges with a separate winter storm. A lot of media reports from the USA seem to be hyped up and it could be that sensationalism is driving hysteria with people emptying the shelves of local stores for the stock piling of essentials. But the intensity of the storm is not the key here it’s sheer size, with close to hurricane force winds it could be 300 miles across by the time it makes landfall tomorrow and affect 60 million people! Not only high winds are of concern, a storm surge could cause coastal flooding coupled with the possibility of up to 10″ of rain and 2 foot of snowfall affecting 12 states as it merges with an Arctic jet stream, forecasters said Sandy has all the ingredients to transform into a “super storm” unlike anything seen over the eastern United States in decades. So it may appear the preparations under way are not such a typical American over-reaction but a well justified precautionary measure, time will tell.
Add comment October 28th, 2012
Right my week off is practically over and what have I achieved…Sod All! But that aint necessarily so. Off up to Budjinkan Eastbourne on Thursday to re-enroll and get training, trained there a couple of years ago with my brother, I wonder whether they’ve improved at all. On the compensator design front I have had to make some changes to the schematic, I’ve learned a bit more code and found a better way of doing things 😉 Spent some much needed time with Sophie as she’s growing up so fast, she started walking this week 🙂
It was my brother Larry’s 50th birthday on Friday and I drove my parents along with my sister and niece up to see him in Welwyn, he seemed quite content though looked a bit uncomfortable after downing 7 cans of coke within an hour. Again unphased by our presence as far as I could tell but it’s always worth the trip, I notice he doesn’t have a grey hair on his head unlike me at 8 years his junior 🙁 I guess he has little stress or worry. We look at him with all the ‘what ifs’ when he could be looking back at us with bewilderment, he will probably out-live the lot of us.
Add comment October 7th, 2012
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