The FT spoil this otherwise mildly interesting article on the Cern Large Hadron Collider with this:
...50,000 tonnes of equipment have to be cooled to just 1.8°Kelvin above absolute zero...
Wrong, wrong, wrong. "Kelvin", in this context, means "°C above absolute zero", which in turn is "the temperature at which nothing could be colder and no heat energy remains in a substance ... by definition, exactly 0 K and −273.15 °C."
So, expanding the above quote, we get:
...50,000 tonnes of equipment have to be cooled to just 1.8°°C above absolute zero above absolute zero...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
A tritology?
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Typing in "Tritology" in Google to see what it meant, you came up first in the list, then typing in "tritology definition" and I got myself a googlewhack.
Brilliant! A tritology is like a tautology but worse.
"The likely discovery of the Higgs particle..": I hope so. I knew Peter Higgs years ago; I have cavorted at his parties. It would be more fun to boast of that than to retell yet again my story of how Gordon Brown came to bounce a cheque on me. I'm afraid it's much too late to tell my Robin-Cook-is-a-shit stories.
Nah ... let's hear the Robin-Cook-is-a-shit-stories. You're not his ex-wife, by any chance? THat doesn't count.
His wife? Gay marriage wasn't legal then!
My first Cook yarn: I was a fresher and one of my new pals says "I've just bumped into a bloke I've not seen since Primary School. He claims to be a Very Important student politician." "Has he changed much?" "Oh no, still a shit."
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