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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What stops galaxies from forming stars ? Normally I'm most interested in this for objects which have hardly any stars at all : ultra dif...
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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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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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Another day, another paper on how exciting Ultra Diffuse Galaxies are. At first, these large, faint galaxies were just wholly unexpected, a...
We weren't allowed to.
ReplyDeleteWhat we did is ... still under court seal.