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  • PAIN is off to an exciting start in 2012 with... a meeting... and room warming... There will be some kind of GM held in 7-208 at 12:00 midday-ish, Friday 27th January, to discuss... Really Important Stuff. Elise says so and she is secretary so she should know! Join, re-join, rejoice, and discuss important club business for 2012. Enquiries to the exec here.
  • 2011 Archives: The archives of PAIN activities for 2011 can be found here: Advertising Graphics - Physics & Phun - News & Announcements - Photo Galleries - Physics Poetry - Physics Illustrated #1 - Physics Illustrated #2 - Error Bars - Mailing List - Past Exec.
    • All items are archived on the news page.
    PAIN is the students' club for Physics at University of Queensland, and is affiliated with the Student Union. We are sensitive intellectuals with a good sense of fun, and include undergraduate and postgraduate students and a few others. We meet every Friday during semester at 5:00PM in the Physics Tea Room in Parnell buiding (7-208, aka ΦTR) for a semi-organised activity followed by pizza and soft drinks. These vaguely physics-themed events are affectionately named 'Error Bars', and are usually followed by some socialising and conversation about science, engineering and the meaning of life. An appetite for pizza is beneficial, but all that is required is a little interest in science and engineering. Come and meet us!
    More information about PAIN can be found on the club page.
    GMIS:
  • Why on earth would a sculptor make a bronze brain and half bury it in the ground? Who cares. What is far more interesting is the location of this particular brain (not it's identical twin which is elsewhere), Albert Einstein Science Park, Telegraphenberg Hill (a tautology), Potsdam Germany. There are several scientific buildings on the site. It was in one of these buildings that Michelson made his first unsuccessful attempt to find the luminiferous aether, before teaming up with Morley to perform the more accurate and better known experiment. There was still no luminiferous aether though. The park is also the site of the Albert Einstein tower, which houses a solar telescope intended to measure gravitational red shift of the sun's spectrum. Initially at least, this measurement didn't work either. Gravitational red shift was first demonstrated elsewhere by Pound and Rebka in a very clever laboratory experiment. (and I got my favourite experiment, Pound Rebka, onto the website - webmaster) Science Park Wikipedia Michelson and Morley Luminiferous Aether Einstein Tower Pound Rebka
    • Older GMI and Trivia can be found on the news page.
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