I just received the following e-mail from the [Stage06] e-group:

Me, I'm easy.
about 150kw of Martin Audio line array and a truck load of Martin 500's
will do for a start
(anyone sourced that rather large laser yet)

Keith

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Well, I had a great time in Brighton. I am very tired, I also have a lot of stuff to do so this will be short. Pictures are available here!

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I am in the microlab again. I have lots to do…

“There are four law of thermodynamics. The third of them, the Second Law, was recognised first; the first, the Zeroth Law, was formulated last; the First Law was second; the Third Law might not even be a law in the same sense as the others”
-P.W. Atkins

hmmmm….

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Just a bit of linkage really the Open University opens it’s courses and a double helix nebula.

Also, I saw Simon Singh speak today, it was pretty cool, although why thhe University decided to have him talk in the Purdie building when Physics lecture theatre A is sooo much bigger is beyond me…

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I found a really cool page about heap sorting, check out the Java applet.

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How fast? How about as fast as the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West?

Anyway, I was told at the weekend I had been described by someone at St Andrews as “a dangerous Marxist.” Needless to say, I’m very very proud.

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It appears that bullets don’t look right in this layout, that sucks.

At the moment I’m rather busy doing Uni work, I am enjoying it though. I think that this semester’s modules are the most fun combination that I’ve done yet. Also, I have an electronics lab this afternoon… Oh, and joy there is some debating thing this weekend so my house will be overrrun with morons. **sigh** Finally, I got my credit card stolen/lost this weekend so that sucks too… gah!

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I’m in the microlab. I am very tired. I also keep wanting to type HTML as LaTeX. Currenly I am trying to simultaneously:

Jessie sent this to me on MSN which is nice…

flem - Bumsenknoblauchbrot says:
(i cant eat pesto anymore it looks just like bile)

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At the moment I am very very very busy. Last weekend I was in St Andrews, Oxford, Birmingham and London. I am very tired and I need to finish my lab so that I can go to Lodon Forum… Yack!

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So I’ve been to a lot of lectures recently. Dr Wan has come up with a lot of insights into quantum physics which can only be described as “inspired”. He made a great analogy between wave-particle duality and people on valentines day. My favourite being:

“… so, in Newtonian dynamics we see that outcomes are deterministic. If you punch the person next to you one of two things will happen: either they will punch you back or they will scream like a girl.”
<some time later>
“… but, in quantum theory, we don’t know what will happen. If we kick an electron no one knows what it will do… maybe it will love it!”

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