Rio,

who knows the day of tomorrow?

Perhaps this has still to come one day, but you have the certainty however, to have participated in this great project!

And I mean, this is not surely not common... ;-)

Best regards,
Stephan

Reminds me of a good part of the pipe welding we did inside nuclear submarines when I used to work A EB. ;) :) :) However, we were usually entangled like a contortionist in between many different pipe or tubing lines while welding in all sort of positions!!!;) :) :)

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall," or pipe or gusset, or in my hand, or whatever else was holding on to it... "Who's got the greatest hands of them all!!!" is what I used to mumble when I welded with either one, or more mirrors in order to complete the joint I was assigned to...

These days, I don't hum that tune anymore because in truth, those days are long gone. :( I mean I can still weld with a mirror, or two, or three but, I'm not the one with the best hands anymore! ;)

Respectfully,
Henry

Steve,

yes... I would like to agree with you!

This stuff is absolutely unique in the world and I ask you to believe me, it was one of the most impressive and most sustainable experiences in my life to have been there!

I got there due to Alex - a PhD mathematician - who is a good friend and colleague of mine. He again has a former fellow student, Martin, who has studied phyiscs and did his PhD in Vienna at the "Atom-Institut". Since Martin is a good friend of him again Alex was invited to visit the Compact Muon Spectrometer (CMS) before it was "closed" by connecting the ring and all its "bowels" would have dissappeared behind tons of tons of instruments and insulation.

By the way, Martin, the physicist, told me when I got to know him at that time, that Alex has prepared the math homework for him and some other physic students. But that was stopped promptly that day as the Professor has asked them, the physicists, how they have resolved the most complex differential equations in a way that even the Professor himself was surprized about! That was the day, Martin said, when they have begun to do their math homework by themselves again... :-)

You know, I do honestly admire these colleagues since they are blessed by the Almighty to understand things which are that far above my head that I feel giddy when I am just thinking about! Martin is with the CERN one of the responsible persons for the "counting of the particles" after a collision has occurred. May God forgive me this simplification but I have never seen so many Personal Computers!

However, Alex was - as he knows my true passion for physics and this "stuff" - so kind to ask me that time to accompany him. And as
I said it was... words still fail me.

Please let me attach some pictures which I or we respectively, have taken at that time.

And Steve... as you say: " I'll get there one day.".

Please do it! This is my humble but very true and most friendly recommendation. :-)

Best regards,
Stephan

Gerald!

Besides all this "glory" one could almost assume that they show no mercy with the welders... :-)

"Weld you curs!! Weld until the first one drops!!"

Or... in other words... "Weld with the gloves off"!

Who else - if not you - would have considered this?! :-):-):-)

Of course you are... absolutely right!!

Best,
Stephan