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Posted By Merv Newman
I know that the moderators have locked the original thread and "temporarily" suspended the "reprise" thread (which I didn't get there in time to see), but :
The following quotes come from the Sunday Times Magazine, February 24th 2008, "A life in the day" Dr Robin cox.
"The physicist, 39 is designing the world's largest accelerator at CERN in Geneva"
"They start serving alcohol around 3 in the canteen, so people start drinking a little bit of red wine, getting more energetic and chatty"
"At around 7 everyone goes for a beer, then they do a bit more physics, then they go out"
"usually I've drunk about a bottle of chateau neuf du pape"
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My level of confidence used to be about 6 sigma. Now I'm not so cerntain.
Merv
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Posted By RP
After delivering some training for them, a normal day in the office!!!
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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
Read it too Merv & was tempted to drag the issue out of the black hole into which it had collapsed.
The idea of physicists smashing atoms when half cut after a nice Coteaux du Languedoc at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe did not appeal.
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Posted By Dave Merchant
Some of our best work happens during a heavy night of alochofrlolism. Feynman was often out of it by 8am even if he did have a lecture at 9.
If you're trying to rationalise 6-dimensional space in string theory, it helps to be a little numb about the gills - remember physicists never actually *do* the dangerous stuff at CERN. Lab techs do the button-pushing, and they're not paid enough to drink wine.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Dave
In the bad old days the physicists stood under/on the reactor manually insering the graphite control rods. Times change - it is called risk export I think.
On a serious note the link to the CERN site provided by Jonathan was not a risk assessment in my view but rather the spinning of an argument by Physicists that everything is OK really. Problem is I remember too well the steady state and big bang debate and the vigorous defences of each combatant.
Bob
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Posted By IOSH Moderator
Merv,
I believe what you were really trying to do was post this link to the article:
http://women.timesonline..._live/article3403949.ece
And not copy and paste the text of the article, which could cause the thread to be removed for copyright reasons.
However the self same chateauneuf du pape temporarily worked it's effect on you and you forgot to do this.
Am I correct?
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Posted By William
I think if I had to work with so many physics geeks then I would need to be drunk permanently, how many brain cells does an average glass of wine kill??
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