Chaos overcome
February 19th 2008 09:19
Finally the carpet in our house is down, and we’ve begun putting things back in their rightful places again. Although it feels as though we have an awful lot more stuff around the house than we used to have, which is scary. Perhaps things have been breeding while we weren’t looking.
Though there was a lot of lifting to do, and a fair amount of pushing stuff through doors that seemed made for smaller furniture, at least we didn’t have to carry things upstairs as we did a few weeks ago when my daughter moved back in with us. We could have done with a stair lift to cart all those bits and bobs up there.
Actually I’ve just come across some photos on the Net of the stripped Mark II detector.
The detector sits inside the Collider Experiment Hall. It was the first detector used to measure particles produced by the SLAC Linear Collider. (Still with me?) This detector employed spectrometers, luminosity monitors, and electromagnetic and liquid-argon calorimeters to measure the various particles produced by the collision of accelerated high-energy positrons and electrons. The Mark II began its career in 1986 but was replaced a mere four years later by the Large Detector. (Hardly very exciting names for these wondrous inventions, are they?)
Anyway, the photos of the stripped detector remind me a good deal of what our house looks like at the moment. There seem to be bits everywhere, things hanging down that shouldn’t be, and open stuff that would normally be closed.
(I'd show you some photos of the state of our house but you might think that's how we live normally!)
Though there was a lot of lifting to do, and a fair amount of pushing stuff through doors that seemed made for smaller furniture, at least we didn’t have to carry things upstairs as we did a few weeks ago when my daughter moved back in with us. We could have done with a stair lift to cart all those bits and bobs up there.
Actually I’ve just come across some photos on the Net of the stripped Mark II detector.
The detector sits inside the Collider Experiment Hall. It was the first detector used to measure particles produced by the SLAC Linear Collider. (Still with me?) This detector employed spectrometers, luminosity monitors, and electromagnetic and liquid-argon calorimeters to measure the various particles produced by the collision of accelerated high-energy positrons and electrons. The Mark II began its career in 1986 but was replaced a mere four years later by the Large Detector. (Hardly very exciting names for these wondrous inventions, are they?)
Anyway, the photos of the stripped detector remind me a good deal of what our house looks like at the moment. There seem to be bits everywhere, things hanging down that shouldn’t be, and open stuff that would normally be closed.
(I'd show you some photos of the state of our house but you might think that's how we live normally!)
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