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One of the most critically acclaimed and popular script writers and directors of one of the premier German cop shows and other feature films in German TV is an Irishman, Eoin Moore from Dublin (based in Berlin for the last 30 years).
He has a knack for the weird, the funny and the social and political critique, all rolled in one.
Pity for Ireland (RTE wouldn't appreciate such a talent, I guess) but great for Germany
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One of the most critically acclaimed and popular script writers and directors of one of the premier German cop shows and other feature films in German TV is an Irishman, Eoin Moore from Dublin (based in Berlin for the last 30 years).
He has a knack for the weird, the funny and the social and political critique, all rolled in one.
Pity for Ireland (RTE wouldn't appreciate such a talent, I guess) but great for Germany
the guy who played Kane in Home & Away, Sam Atwell, is a script consultant on Fair City ...0 -
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If you ever run out of Milk or Cream you can make a handy emergency alternative from just porridge and water.
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Ineedaname wrote: »India actually has Sand Mafias that trade in illegally sourced sand. There have even been full on gang wars between them.
Sounds like the name of a hip hop group!
The longest running wars were the Iberian Religious Wars that lasted 781 years (711-1492). Just behind that were the Persian-Roman Wars lasting 721 years (92BCE-629CE).
In third place is the motorists vs cyclists wars - still ongoing!
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Two experiments completed recently.
1. Earth detected:
Neutrinos, because they pass through most matter, can provide a new way to view astronomical objects. They would allow us to see the galactic core easier as they'd pass through all the gas and dust in the way. similarly we could view the cores of stars more easily because they pass through the outer layers of a star.
However they also pass straight through most of our equipment! One of the earliest machines that managed to consistently detect them was the bubble chamber at Fermi lab in the US:
However our best equipment is now the ice cube telescope in Antarctica. Here is the surface lab where the actual scientists and monitoring equipment are found:
However going nearly 3km beneath the lab are huge tubes of little spherical detectors all strung along massive tubes like beads on a necklace:
A few years ago it managed to observe neutrinos well enough to take a picture of the sun:
However this year, for the first time, the detector was able to see that the Earth was in the way of the sun! It detected that something was blocking the sun, that it had roughly the mass we know the Earth has, that it has a dense core and that it rotates over a period of roughly 24 hours.
Although it seems daft, it is a major advance to be able to see something as "neutrino-dark" as the Earth.
2. Cheshire Cat:
The Leau-Langevin laboratory in France have the following reactor they use to make neutrons for experiments:
They recently managed to perform a Cheshire cat experiment with the neutrons. Basically the neutrons entered a special kind of device which has two tunnels. In one tunnel there is a detector that can detect a particle's spin and in the other tunnel there is a detector that can detect a particle's location.
If you don't know what spin is, the easiest way to think of it is just a fixed amount of hitting power the particle has. In large objects like us it'd be the damage you would do if you hit somebody while spinning around on ice skates.
Before the junction to the tunnels the neutrons are effected by a device called a beamsplitter.
They basically managed to tune the beamsplitter so that the neutron was detect as being in the upper tunnel, but its spin was detected in the lower tunnel.
Hence they managed to separate a property of the particle from the particle. A device responded to the neutron's spin and shook slightly in the tunnel the neutron didn't go down!
As many might guess, the name comes from Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland where the smile of the cat can be seen even when the cat is gone.
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I'm a bit confused Fourier (as indeed I am by quite a bit of what you say!)
How can neutrinos be used to image something they have passed through? Would they not need to be reflected off it to do that?
I have 3 theories (most likely all wrong)
1 Not all the neutrinos pass through, and what we're "seeing" is the difference between the normal rate of detection and the ones whose passage was blocked by something.
2 They are somehow modified by the act of passing through something and we're detecting this change from the norm.
3 They're magic.0 -
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Outlaw Pete wrote: »If you ever run out of Milk or Cream you can make a handy emergency alternative from just porridge and water.
Then you can use this alternative milk to make your porridge with.0 -
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So it's what I meant by "passing through most matter", it's sort of a combination of 1. and 3. I hate to say.sbsquarepants wrote: »How can neutrinos be used to image something they have passed through? Would they not need to be reflected off it to do that?
Essentially the detectors will be filled with some fluid, in the case with the cleanest design, the Super-Kamiokande in Hida (Gifu Prefecture, Japan):
There's a pool of ultra purified water, you can see the staff on a boat in the image above, it's so pure it can actually cause burns. One in (roughly) every trillion trillion trillion neutrinos that pass through the chamber will interact with a single water molecule causing it to shoot off an electron with a flash. The orange bulbs in the roof are hyper sensitive cameras that can detect the flash.
Why that one neutrino does that, QM offers no explanation, only that only one in a trillion trillion trillion will.
The Ice Cube Neutrino telescope is similar, just a different fluid instead of water and rather than one big liquid-camera chamber it's a load of little ones arranged along a sturdy rod going down a ~3km tunnel. This is one being lowered in:
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This one. Think of it as being like an x-ray. Some of them get absorbed, more don't. Your detector 'sees' a dark patch where more of them were absorbed.sbsquarepants wrote: »I'm a bit confused Fourier (as indeed I am by quite a bit of what you say!)
How can neutrinos be used to image something they have passed through? Would they not need to be reflected off it to do that?
I have 3 theories (most likely all wrong)
1 Not all the neutrinos pass through, and what we're "seeing" is the difference between the normal rate of detection and the ones whose passage was blocked by something.0 -
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