much colder

Riddles within riddles? If 'much colder' refers to temperature, could it be something in the inter/circumstellar medium? Perhaps something to do with fullerenes/graphenes/nanotubes/etc? the 'extra electron' suggests something about anions, or carrying a charge.

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Or it could be that the other guess was much hotter

So if I get colder then I'm hotter.

How about a molecule with a negative charge in supercooled conditions? How about one that is found in outer space?




[edit: I changed positive to negative]

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

forget temperature, classic hide-and-go-seek rules. hexa compounds is colder, i.e. your moving in the wrong direction

If it has an extra electron it must be an atom or molecule and, likely, found in sellar atmospheres to help age the star, right?

If so, it is interesting, as most spectrometry, I think, comes from positive ions as the electrons are striped free at stellar temperatures. I think hydrogen can temporarily hold on to two electrons but I doubt their is any 6 spoke configuration to them.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Like I said, the first guess was much hotter

Something to do with a big inertial confinement fusion machine, like Shiva, or the big Z at Sandia? Or is it Livermore?

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Back on the right track

While I've never heard of Big Z
Early types of me had 2 Big D's

I will avoid all mention of Katherine Harris.

So, somewhere out there is a honking big cyclotron.

Vancouver... is it the TRIUMPH cyclotron?

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Yep thats it.

Since the energy is so large (500 MeV, ~ 1/2 the rest mass) the "D's" must curve at larger radii to account for SR. There are 6 magnets in total, and like George mentioned the accelerate H-, with two electrons. The logo (and cyclotron design) is shown below.



ISAC, a lab at TRIUMF investigates nuclear astrophysics with radioactive particles.

Son of a gun. I think it was the combination of the 2Ds and your location that did it for me.

I think I'll try a riddle, too:



Who was I?

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Gun Jr. is right, it is obvious now.

Moving onward....

Was a spacecraft divided to allow for lighter launch vehicles?

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Going on a whim, James Doohan

Argo Navis?

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Didn't take long, Eroica! Maybe next time I should be more obscure. Your turn.

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Uh oh, Eroica's mind is on constellations.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Fleeced was a hint too far.

Now, I was going to post another of those hard-to-make-out constellation images, but just to confound George, who knows me a little too well...

Who is looking through a telescope in a stained-glass window in the church of St Stephen Walbrook in London, and what is unusual about the image?

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Edmund Halley (wild guess)

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No, not Halley.

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I tried to google search for an image, and there is surprisingly little about this window on the web. I had guessed Halley based on a search of London Astronomers who might have contributed money to the Church. I thought that Newton was probably too much of a curmudgeon to get a window, and probably would not be shown as an astronomer.

Since the Windows may not have survived WWII, it could be that there is no chronistic connection between the windows, and when Wren designed the church.

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Another guess: Maybe Christopher Wren himself (the architect of the church)? He was a stargazer hunting comets. Apparently there was a bright comet in the sky in the years preceding the great fire of 1666; it was seen as a sign of impending calamity; and C. Wren was one of the architects who rebuilt London after the great fire. So it might be apt to protray the architect himself with a telescope.

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