Monday Monday

Physics is a man's world.

So today I was joined by another high schooler and roughly the French equivalent of what I am. Both named Matthew (or Matchieu depending on if you say it French like or not), so the name thing should be easy. They both speak pretty good English too, which is nice. So the French go to high school, then this really intense prep school, then they jump to getting their masters and Phd. I think it takes roughly the same time for both of us though. So Matthew Sr was there first but I didn't know he was coming so I thought he was a high schooler and tried explaining very simple things, but it turns out he's very smart and attends one of the best schools in France for theoretical physics and math. He gets paid to go to school. That's how good it is. Chuh. It was kind of frustrating sometimes cause he'd mess with the set up I had built all last week which momentarily put a flash of terror in me cause he didn't know what he was doing, or I thought he didn't. It was all good though.

Today our intrepid crew really didn't do a whole lot. Rod got the motor on the target running and got it rotating so we were able to see how that affected the fringes, which was really cool, because the thing is already pretty damn stable. It just needs a little more tweaking and it'll be there. We also messed with the filter to balance the arms of the interferometer to make sure the contrast is as good as we can make it. That was the biggest thing we did today. Good day. Then I ran and ate and read Stephen King's The Gunslinger, part 1 of the Dark Tower series. It's really good.

"Long days and pleasant nights"
-The gunslinger