the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

Friday, March 6, 2020

dame laura knight ... just because she's so good !

christie's intro added in 2023 ...

Dame Laura Knight: the artist who painted intimate portraits of women, the circus and the Second World War | Christie's (christies.com)

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

the ALICE experiment ... developing the largest "camera" in the world ...

it isn't the kind of camera that takes a picture of what the human eye might ever see

it doesn't focus an image on to a flat surface

but it does create a visual image of real events

it is a complex and layered series of several arrays of pixel-type detectors that can record and measure the scattering of sub-atomic particles in a 3D matrix and will then create an analogous visual diagram for the human eye and mind to analyze and interpret

in order to capture the data in a form that can be analyzed, the complex apparatus has to be constructed in a special chamber that will give it "life-support"

the experiments need low-temperatures ... strong magnetic field ... vacuum

the ALICE camera is therefore constructed within a larger apparatus

https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/lhc-collides-ions-new-record-energy

the complete unit is ??? how big ???

https://home.cern/science/experiments/alice

alice is currently being re-engineered, upgraded, re-built ... the original design conference took place in 1993 ... so we're 27 years in to the experiment with some way still to go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_experiment

http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/en/Chapter2/Chap2Experiment-en.html

https://home.cern/science/experiments/cms

https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/subterranean-ballet-alice

the new inner silicon detector array ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olro8on6M0

? what would happen if i put my hand into the proton beam ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMqPT6oKJ8