Tuesday, May 23, 2006

An honest day's work

For the first time in god knows how long I actually worked properly today. I took the Stern-Gerlach experiment apart and stuck it back together again with a new vacuum chamber, which has been built by the workshop. Vacuum systems are a bit like a child's building set. Each component has a kind of connection at the end, which (hopefully) fits the connections of other components. This is commonly called a "flange". This means that once you get enough pieces you can build and rebuild your system in any way you want.

With a bit of luck it will work soon. The down-side of this is that I sacrificed the afternoon coffee and cake break.

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