Just a couple of pictures from my traditional, "spend-Christmas-in-the-Cardiff-Physics-Department-because-that's-how-I-roll" trip...
First, undergraduate students in Cardiff now get to build Rube Goldberg machines at the final lab session of the year. We never got to do anything fun like that back in my day...
And second, this notice board attests to the very important research being done in this student office.
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The Bunny Rabbit of Death
Today's paper is a bit more technical than usual, but sometimes you've gotta tackle the hard stuff. Ram pressure stripping is some...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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And more importantly, how not to build a galaxy. Uniform discs of pure gas turn out to be almost impossible. Exponential discs - where ther...
We weren't allowed to.
ReplyDeleteWhat we did is ... still under court seal.