On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:15:01 -0700 (PDT), Carl M
wrote:

On Sep 11, 3:33*am, " wrote:

My uncle was working with some accelerator in the 60's. They were
zapping all sorts of things.
Somewhere I think I still have a plexiglas sample they zapped.

Karl- Hide quoted text -

Where I work (okay, it's not really work when I have so much fun)
there's a radiation effects lab that I support on occasion. Linear
accelerators, dynamatrons, flash x-rays, and other nifty stuff. Most
of the work is testing equipment and components that will find their
way into the nasty environment of space (as well as aircraft, high
altitude electric trains, etc.) At the end of the year if there's
time and the flash x-ray is set up right, the operator makes some of
those panels. They're called Lichtenberg patterns. We give them away
to retirees and such. Very cool. Some of the other projects we work
on are even cooler, but that's another topic.
We've been following CERN with some interest, although some of
the terminology escapes us lowly lab techs. The scale, cost, and
energies involved are purely mind boggling, and we work with some
pretty high numbers already.


It was pretty fascinating to note that Cern went on line..and there
were a bunch of large earthquakes not long afterwards around the
world. And some volcanos...shrug

even more interesting to note on a globe their positions from cern

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Gunner


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