Nice little editorial piece from a 1974 issue of The Australian Physicist. If only they knew what the future held ... 🤯🤯🤯

Sitting on train at Sydney Central for 1.5 hours waiting to leave for the Blue Mountains. #nightmarecommute. Where is that drinks trolley?!

Damn! Missed it by that much.

Does anyone remember when they made helium neon lasers in Queensland?! I certainly don’t. And check out that retro “Australian Made”logo with the boomerang. What a beauty! That puts it pre 1986, probably 1982. And it still works!! Now that’s proper quantum technology.

Lovely moon halo over the 🥶 Blue Mountains tonight.

Working-from-home with added homeschooling simulator.

We are making chaotic circuits at home for our Physics Lab elective subject (lockdown edition). Last week’s fun challenge: make some chaotic art. Here is the winner! A strangely attractive rose garden 😉. Well done, Rhianna!

Possibly my favourite student feedback comment of all time 🤣 … “Emanates the energy of a golden retriever while also being world weary so its hard to hate him. Always provides very useful feedback and genuinely shows care for his students.”

UNSW Physics hard rubbish day! Must … resist … my inner womble.

Ti:sapphire laser all tuned up. Time for a little retro-gaming!

Pimping out our old Optical Time Domain Reflectometry experiment (90s vintage from Newport) for the UNSW Physics Higher Year Teaching Lab. So cool. Now more pimp than … 🤔 … not pimp?

Public shaming? Certainly looks that way. sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…

Wait, what? Solar power generated at night! Tell me more. Great work Ned Ekins-Daukes, Michael Nielsen and Team! newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-t…

Cleans all surfaces, you say? 🤨

❤️ lab days.

I hear these things come in a digital version nowadays. 🤔 Should probably look into that.

What did I just press?!

Physics staff v students quidditch match! Are we really doing this Tom Dixon ?

Staff and students of UNSW Physics - on hiatus and UNSWPhysicsSociety practicing for the staff v student quidditch match next week. No contest … 😬.

Good enough, AI. Good enough.