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'Panopticons' is an arts and regeneration project of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network managed by Mid Pennine Arts. Four large-scale sculptures were commissioned, designed and constructed over a six-year period for the districts of Blackburn, Burnley.
Set in the landscape of Pendle, the Atom is one of the four panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire, England, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Designed by Peter Meacock, Andrew Edmunds and Katarina Novomestska of Peter Meacock Projects it was launched by Mayor of Pendle, Councillor George Adams with Anthony Wilson and designer Peter Meacock on 22 September 2006.
The bronze-coated glass fibre reinforced concrete structure provides both a work of art and a viewing point and shelter from which to enjoy the surrounding landscape.
Atom is located at 53.8496°N 2.0968°W.
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The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was a 5 million volt Van de Graaff electrostatic nuclear accelerator operated by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation at their Research Laboratories in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania. It was instrumental in the development in practical applications of nuclear science for energy production. In particular, it was used in 1940 to discover the photofission of uranium and thorium, and was most cited for certain nuclear physics measurements. The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was able to make precise measurements of nuclear reactions for the research in nuclear power. It was the first industrial Van de Graaff generator in the world, and marked the beginning of nuclear research for civilian applications. Built in 1937, it was a 65-foot-tall pear-shaped tower. It went dormant in 1958. In 1985, it was named an Electrical Engineering Milestone by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
[...] Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion [...]
-- Quote by Democritus
Rome, Italy (May, 2008)
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
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°°° All spheres in a row °°°
Without any scale, this could be an atomic arrangement at the microscopic level, or an alignment of marbles at the macroscopic level.
This is my new Lego moc.
Japanese animation character Mighty Atom.
I added an openable structure to its chest.
To restore the original settings.
1,400 Ibs. over 600 BHP. 198 MPH. And yet I'm somehow still alive.
Also, FM2 is fucking awesome. If you have an XB1, get it.
Fallout 3 - downsampled from 2500x2500, using SRWE; Midhrastic WIP ENB (.263 binary) w/ boulotaur's SweetFX.
Not the first Atom I've seen, but the first that I've been able to photograph. Also some guy eating his hand.
another shot looking through the amazing architecture of the Atomium
I'll stop posting shots of this building now, it was a great day with beautiful light but I think I prefer variety in my photostream
Fall, 1913: The basement of Berlin’s Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut for Chemistry housed the ‘Hahn-Meitner Laboratory’, which was a converted wood shop with a few electroscopes to study ‘radiochemistry’. The all-male chemistry institute ignored Lise Meitner for being a woman – albeit, one of the handful few contemporary women with a Ph.D. in Physics, and disregarded Otto Hahn for working on trivial trace moieties, which one could neither smell, see, or weigh. Meitner used the basement’s own external entrance to come and go; women were not allowed to set foot in the rest of the building. Despite such odds, Meitner and Hahn made important pioneering discoveries (including discovering Protactinium) and in recognition of their contribution, the building, as part of the Free University of Berlin, was renamed ‘Hahn-Meitner building’ in 2010.
1938-39: In July, Nazi Germany stormed Austria. Anti-Semitic laws were installed prohibiting university professors from leaving the country. Fearing persecution due to her Jewish heritage, Hahn helped Meitner escape across the Dutch border. Meitner evaded evil and settled in Sweden. Meanwhile, in December, back at the wood shop, a baffling alchemy happened. Following Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi’s experiments in Rome, Hahn bombarded an uranium atom with a single neutron – for trope, think David and Goliath. Not much was supposed to happen. Unexpectedly, as an end product, such bombardment produced barium, an element almost half the mass of uranium. Hahn communicated this finding and his perplexities to his collaborator in exile. Meitner was equally stunned, but soon came up with an explanation: the neutron had sliced the uranium nucleus roughly in half – ‘nuclear fission’. The atom (ἄτομος atomos, Greek: indivisible) was now split – literally – and the stage was set for mankind’s worse nightmare.
Fall, 1939: One of the fallout of a nuclear fission reaction is the release of additional secondary neutrons from the splitting nucleus, which could then go on to torpedo fresh rounds of atomic nuclei, resulting in what physicists on both sides of the pond then excitedly referred to as ‘nuclear chain reaction’. This information was precious. Physicists Szilard, Fermi, and Joliot-Curie self-censored and did not publish their chain reaction-related theories and findings. They feared that this information could land in the wrong Nazi hands; after all, World war II was looming large. Instead, Leó Szilárd –and Albert Einstein– wrote a letter to president Franklin Roosevelt: “…it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power … would be generated. … This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs… A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory”. Seeds of the famed Manhattan project were thus sowed.
1944: The Manhattan project was in full swing, gestating the ‘Little Boy’, the first atomic fission bomb in human history.
Aug 6, 1945: Little Boy, containing 64 kg of pure human apathy masked as Uranium-235, was dropped on Hiroshima. With only 1-2% of its material fissioning, from pure scientific perspective, the bomb was a spectacular ‘failure’. It was also a failure on many humanitarian fronts. But the then president – Truman – claimed otherwise. “United States and its allies had spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history—and won."
Nov 16, 1945: Otto Hahn was named the ‘1944’ Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry for his “discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei”. Lise Meitner was notably ignored. One wonders about Hahn’s motives to exclude Meitner from his publications that lead to the Nobel Prize. Not untouched by contemporary Nazi politics, it would be dangerous for him to acknowledge his persistent ties with Meitner. One also wonders about the motives of the Nobel Prize committee; Science could have waited for Hiroshima to heal before rushing to celebrate the very discovery that led to its unimaginable woes.
Aftermath: Although she was not a part of the Manhattan project, Lise Meitner acknowledged her moral failing in the process. Somewhat harshly, she was also condemning of Hahn, who never participated in the failed German nuclear weapons program: “You all worked for Nazi Germany. And you did not even try passive resistance.” Hahn, and other leading German physicists, were arrested by the Alsos Mission and interned in England from July 1945 until January 1946. While in custody, Hahn learned about the devastation their discovery had caused, and fell on the brink of despair contemplating suicide. In later years, he spoke often against nuclear proliferation in West Germany.
Today (Aug 6, 2020) is the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing, the day more than 100,000 human beings vaporized instantly and hundreds of thousands of others ("hibakusha") maimed for generations to come. In one of his papers, Otto Hahn acknowledged, that the splitting of the atom “violated all previous experience in the field of nuclear physics.” The unhinged application of this discovery by mankind seven years later violated a lot more.
Epilogue: I remember, as a teenager, how I felt the first time I heard about and saw images of bombed Hiroshima. My mind was painfully foggy for days to come. “I am a scientist,” Hahn had said during his formative years, “and like all scientists am interested only in discovery and not application.” Wrong. We're foremost human beings and for everything else we might be, our interests must always align with whatever it takes to be empathetic to each other. While shooting the above scene under starlight, it was funny to see that wild white horse hide its head in the bushes for the entire duration I was there (1-2 hours). Now, looking back, it was almost a borderline metaphor for many of mankind's actions during demanding times. At history's urging, we must do better.
A prototype atom interferometer chip in a vacuum chamber, harnessing the quantum behaviour of atoms to perform ultra-precise measurements of gravity.
“Quantum physics and space travel are two of the greatest scientific achievements of the last century,” comments ESA’s Bruno Leone, who this month organised the latest Agency workshop on quantum technologies.
“We now see huge great promise in bringing them together: many quantum experiments can be performed much more precisely in space, away from terrestrial perturbations. In addition, the new generation of quantum devices offer huge improvements to space-related technology.
“Potential is there for the use of quantum technologies in areas such as Earth observation, planetary exploration, secure communications, fundamental physics, microgravity research and navigation.”
This Earth gravity meter is being developed by RAL Space in the UK and IQO Hannover in Germany, with ESA support.
Microwave and light interferometers provide extremely precise measurements by combining different waves. Just like sets of ripples meeting in water, the combination of slightly different signals creates interference patterns.
This interferometer takes advantage of the fact that – as stated by quantum theory – atoms also behave like waves as well as particles, and can be combined to deliver extraordinary atomic-scale precision. It could be used in principle to map variations in Earth’s gravity with orders of magnitude greater than our current best.
Credit: RAL Space/IQO Hannover
This is an older moc going back a couple of years. Inspired by the Fallout universe, the idea was that a group of settlers had constructed a theme park on the remnants of an old coaster in a corner of the wasteland. I tried to reference multiple pieces of the Fallout universe throughout the build, featuring a ride entitled '101', a 'Far Harbour' themed seafood shack and boat, a 'Red Rocket' themed coaster, the giant skull of a deathclaw and a large 8-bit style Vault Boy sign.
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In 1932 the physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, devised a technique for bombarding atomic nuclei with protons (hydrogen nuclei) that had been accelerated in a powerful electric field. The aim of these attempts to 'split the atom' was to explore the basic composition of matter.
Scientists had been theorising for some time about what atoms were like and how they behaved. The Swiss, Heinrich Greinacher, published a paper in 1921 on how such an experiment might work in practice - Cockcroft and Walton were the first to conduct those experiments successfully.
Experiments to investigate atoms and sub-atomic particles required huge pieces of apparatus to generate the high voltages needed. The growth of this experimental apparatus started in 1930, when Cockcroft and Walton developed a voltage-multiplying circuit that used capacitors (components used to store energy) to produce high voltage direct current (DC) from a much lower alternating current (AC). They erected a column of rectifier diodes (which allow the electrical current to move forwards but prevent it from moving back again) and capacitors to produce a DC voltage four times greater than the AC voltage.
These experiments showed that the atomic nucleus was not an indivisible and basic unit, but had its own internal structure. This included the newly-revealed sub-atomic particles which were 'broken out' of the nucleus by these experiments. This growing understanding of atomic structure and of atomic disintegration led during the 1930s directly to ideas for atomic power and the atomic bomb.
The machine shown here is the cascade generator, built by Philips of Eindhoven in 1937, and installed in the Cavendish Laboratory. It was designed to produce the-then high voltage (up to 1.25 million volts) required to accelerate the particles.
During the Second World War the machine was used to investigate the properties of uranium and plutonium as a contribution to the Manhattan Project which manufactured the first atomic bombs. It was succeeded by a more efficient American-designed cyclotron, which itself was obsolescent by the end of the war.
Cockcroft and Walton were recognised for their pioneering work in this field in 1951 when they won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Much-refined (and miniaturised) Cockcroft-Walton circuits are still used in particle accelerators. They also are used in everyday electronic devices that require high voltages, such as X-ray machines, cathode-ray tube television sets, microwave ovens and photocopiers.
The Science Museum in South Kensington, London, acquired the Cockcroft-Walton Voltage Multiplier in 1982.
This is a clearer version of a colour image I posted a number of years ago.