Friday 18 March 2011

Dr David Evans at Redditch Astronomical Society

On Monday 7th March Dr David Evans of Birmingham University came to the Redditch Astronomical Society at St Augustine's School to talk to us about his work on the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)







Throwing Health and safety concerns to the wind he proceeded to demonstrate the properties of super cooled materials with the aid of some liquid Nitrogen.





Levitation of magnets by super cooling other materials:



And finally some magic tricks!