The Redditch Astronomical Society was founded in 2007 by a group of like minded individuals in order to provide a friendly, entertaining and informative meeting place in which to discover and enjoy Astronomy in the Redditch and Bromsgrove area of the West Midlands
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: