Excitement in the department!
Things are very exciting here in the physics building at the moment - after a couple of hours of rain, our solid, impermeable roof has suddenly forgotten the definition of “impermeable”, and started dripping (or pouring, depending on what room or cupboard you look at) into our offices! I can only imagine that a pipe somewhere has burst/broken/otherwise given up the fight, and is now directing the not inconsiderable amount of water caught on the not inconsiderable surface area of our roof into the comparatively small space above our offices.
So far, my office has been unaffected, but all the same I think I’ll put my laptop somewhere safe (read: waterproof) before I go for lunch.
That’s my excitement for the day, anyway. This afternoon, the Honours students from physics are going to be giving their end of year talks on their work, so that should be interesting (depending on how much I understand!) I’m particularly interested in a talk a fellow swing dancer (and physicist!) is giving on quantum gravity, and the best way of describing time, but there’s lots of interesting projects from some excellent students, so they should all be good.