Nice view of the shuttle

I found via rss a really good video of the shuttle from a camera in a commercial fly:

Take a look in another place

For a long time I read many things (It doesn't mean I understand it) about the supersymmetry as an explanation of many of the biggest questions in physics. The supersymmetric particles can explain the problem of the matter quantity in the universe. This problem is simple, the universe has to have more matter than we saw to be like we saw.

Today I read a post about a different way to find this undiscovered matter. Many time I read about astrophysical ways to try to see something in the sky. But this time is different, we like to try to create this matter as a collision result in the way to know if this can exist in this universe.

Deeper read about this type of matter, I think, can be the Wikipedia's article about neutralinos. Also there is in spanish a really good writter, who wrote about the amazin world of the particles.

Nice view of a synchrotron

Yesterday, I celebrate the airplane license flying an helicopter... From the helicopter notification point Sierra of Sabadell to the Whisky entrance point, there is our synchrotron in the way.

We have 100MeV!!

After delays, complication, problems, and whatever you can imagine... Yesterday, around 10 in the evening the beam at the end of the linac reach the energy of the electron gun was designed for.

It was a really special day for all of us that are involved on this process. It's a really exciting moment! But it's not the end, now we have to transport this beam in the transferline in order to put it into the booster ring.

Just for an hour

Yesterday my mobile dies. Dies suddenly and fast. The mobile agonizes during hours until I decide to go to a mobile-shop to acquire the substitute... Just like an hour after this action, a friend announced me the Neo FreeRunner release.

Rage...

Binary pulsar system

Our telescopes saw many dual star systems, here two star are orbiting between then their mass center. This two starts also rotates faster when the distance between is smaller, and this is one way to try to detect the gravitational waves specially if this pair is massive.

Also the sky have objects called pulsars, neutrons start that rotates fast and emits x-ray from the magnetic poles and can be thought to be like the lighthouses used to guide the pilots in the sea (close to the coast).

The Esa has a satellite to observe the x-ray sources called XMM-Newton. Last October this satellite saw something really interesting: a binary pulsar system. Interesting specially because the close impact effects of the emissions of each pulsar to the magnetosfere of the other. Have a nice read.

Repository mirroring

This post title contain the necessary words to find a solution to the problem that I post at the beginning of this month. After some try touching what was not think to be touch (the files in the .svn directory of a checkout) I decide to send an email to the users list.

Why I didn't send it before? Easily I receive a feedback indicating me that I am trespassing the limits of the things that the users should be allow to do. Then I explain not only the intentions, and more the reasons why I want this feature. And a fast answer appears!

Yes, a tool to help what I want exist, and its name is svk! I'll use it and reflect the impression. Really thanks to Ryan Schmidt.