a quiet day in the MOFfice… and yet things are taking shape, ultrasonic ultraviolet structures forming in the flux…
Hermetic Worlds
The search for a megasonic hermetic vessel begins…
Benzene dream
This formulaic scribble could be the key to the first experiment!
(and yes the benzene ring has been tagged with that Ouroboros symbol, it didn’t take long for such a dream icon to seep in!)
An Sich Zerstreut
“An sich zerstreut” (trans: “scattered in itself”) is a quote from Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 (B133). This seems to resonate with some essential quality of the strange new materials being created in the lab. (I have been reading Kant on the train to the CSIRO, as a kind of philosophical OH&S induction – I think it works!)
Day 2 : exciting and dangerous
OH&S inductions. Serious and scary. Everything is dangerous.
I now have my own labcoat and glasses. Ready for action.
Day 1 : mystery delivery
A long anticipated package is delivered to the CSIRO workshop, but upon opening it, nobody quite knows what is inside the containment vessel or how to activate it!
A poetically resonant start to my residency perhaps?
Night -1 : a different approach
a late night approach towards the CSIRO….
and some more / different pre-research:
PW Anderson – more is different.
Day -1 : grow your own detector
A warmup exercise, my first piezo-electric Rochelle salt crystal growing experiment, DIY recipes can be found here!
.. but was it a successful servicing!?
