Sunday, September 18, 2011

A big sphere












I saw a big sphere today. It was very big and very shiny. I was met after lunch by the incredibly friendly Odylio and we drove (very fast) to Sao Paulo. The trip was fun. All the fields are full of massive termite mounds. There are big birds that are probably vultures ("they eat dead animals. they don't kill them") flying around. The trees are incredible. They're all different and very colourful. We crossed the Tropic of Capricorn, went through the outskirts of the city and ended up at the Universitaria. Then we went to the physics building and I got to see their big sphere!! It's amazing. They're hoping to detect gravitational waves with it and have a sensitivity (in a very small band) similar to LIGO. I even got to climb on top of it!!

After seeing the big sphere we drove back again (1.5 hours each way!). This time we drove through the city and got into a police convoy that drove at extremely high speed to the airport.

Then I found some "traditional Australian black bread" (?)

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