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[Jan Waclawek]

>som zvedavy ci uz konecne bude fuzia o tych slubovanych 50 rokov :-)

Dovolim si trocha dlhsi citat, ktory podla mna s tym - bohuzial - suvisi:

     MIT had built a  new cyclotron while I was  a student there, and it was
just  beautiful! The cyclotron itself was in one room, with the  controls in
another room. It was beautifully  engineered. The wires ran from the control
room to the cyclotron underneath in conduits, and there was  a whole console
of buttons and meters. It was what I would call a gold-plated cyclotron.
     Now I  had read  a  lot  of papers on cyclotron experiments, and  there
weren't many from MIT. Maybe they were just starting. But there were lots of
results from  places like Cornell, and  Berkeley, and above  all, Princeton.
Therefore what I  really wanted to  see,  what I was looking forward to, was
the PRINCETON CYCLOTRON. That must be something.
     So  first  thing on Monday,  I go into the physics  building  and  ask,
"Where is the cyclotron -- which building?"
     "It's downstairs, in the basement -- at the end of the hall."
     In  the  basement? It was an old building.  There was no  room  in  the
basement for a cyclotron. I walked down to the end of the hall, went through
the door, and in ten seconds I learned why Princeton was right for me -- the
best  place for me to go to school. In this room there were wires strung all
over the  place! Switches  were hanging from the  wires,  cooling  water was
dripping  from the valves, the room was full  of stuff, all out in the open.
Tables piled  with tools were everywhere; it was the most godawful  mess you
ever  saw. The whole cyclotron  was there in one  room, and it was complete,
absolute chaos!
     It reminded me of my lab at  home. Nothing at MIT had ever reminded  me
of  my  lab at home.  I suddenly realized why Princeton was getting results.
They were working with the instrument. They built  the instrument; they knew
where everything was, they knew how everything worked, there was no engineer
involved, except maybe  he was working  there too. It  was much smaller than
the cyclotron at MIT, and "gold-plated"? -- it was  the exact opposite. When
they wanted to fix a vacuum, they'd drip glyptal on it,  so there were drops
of glyptal on the floor. It was wonderful! Because they worked with it. They
didn't have to sit in another room and push buttons!

wek