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ah, but HEP is the one where you can write the funding proposals for the big shiny toys, which the uni can show off.
by 14113 13y ago
ah, but HEP is the one where you can write the funding proposals for the big shiny toys, which the uni can show off.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoI want to make some clever/witty comment here, but science funding is just too messed up these days. To be honest, we HEP folks (at my Uni) had to borrow the toys from the condensed matter folks just to do our homework. They had several SEM, TEM machines, we had none, the machines are quite handy. Also, condensed matter folk make the best wires and magnets (ever see a 5HP motor that can fit in your hand?), but, HEP folk try hard not to care about details like that. Nope, if you want to see cool science-ey stuff, talk to a condensed matter physicist or a material scientist, a fluid dynamics guy, or even (gasp) a chemist. If you ask a HEP guy, he'll just show you pictures of himself standing on a huge metal scaffold looking thing with a bunch of wires sticking out of it. That's his experiment, which he visits two or three times per year, and which is probably located in another country). Here just for fun, a few more (non accelerator) HEP proposals: 1. Let's dig a really deep hole, and fill it with big tanks of distilled and purified Perrier, photomultiplier tubes[2], wires, some soda straws, and the most expensive amplifiers[1] we can get our hands on. 2. Let's do it again, this time under a mountain. 3. At the South Pole. 4. And in Canada. 5. At the bottom of the ocean? 6. All of the above, but this time, in close proximity to a Nuke-yoo-lar Reee-acter[3] (I worked in HEP for almost 10 years, but not as a physicist) [1] Also, lots of FPGA's. No, wait ASIC's (FPGA's are too slow and expensive). Oh, and High Voltage. Oh, and flammable gases! [2] If you're Japanese, do it twice! (see: the Super-K PMT disaster)