Synchrotron at POSTECH

Yes, it is Synchrotron not Megatron or Cybertron or anything from Transformers.

NOT THIS

IS THIS

(Picture of a French University synchrotron)

The round building in the picture is a synchrotron and i was given a golden opportunity to visit a synchrotron, the one and only in Korea at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). The Korean synchrotron is named Pohang Light Source (PLS). Basically this is a facility usually in the size of a football field or larger to create high frequency electromagnetic radiation. A synchrotron has to be round in shape so that the beams can run in a circular path under the pressure of magnetic fields to be accelerated close to the speed of light. There are only about 50 such facility in the world. The cost of building one is really high and the cost to maintain it in long tem is even higher. The designs of all synchrotrons are different but they are using the same principle. The Diamond Light Source in UK is one of the famous synchrotrons found.

This is Diamond Light Source, isn't it beautiful ?

So now, you should be wondering why do they want to produce light at the speed close to the speed of light... The ultra bright light produced will be channelled out to workstations where experiments can be carried out. The light can be used in super microscopes where scientists can view structure of tiny substances, like the protein structure.The fields of science that can be applied include biosciences, medical research, mineral exploration, environmental sciences, materials enginering and forensic sciences.

There's so much science behind this thing so it's impossible for me to tell them all here. This is a video explaining the working principle of synchrotron at PLS, it's a good video where it can help you understand more about it. Click here ---> VIDEO OF PLS SYNCHROTRON

Inside storage ring of PLS.

I have to wear this whenever i enter the storage ring, the red colour thing is a dosimeter for measurement of radioactive exposure.

Guest house for users of PLS. The guest house is very proper, it's a 3 room apartment with kitchen, living room and bedrooms.We put up a night at this apartment.

POSTEH is a town itself with buildings, apartments, shops, schools and traffic lights around.

Walking around the storage ring in the synchrotron.

Rainy Saturday

Here in Gwangju, it's a bad bad thing if it rains because it will rain more than 12 hours continuously ! Our initial plan was to go to Mudeungsan, a beautiful and famous mountain in Gwangju. According to weather forecast it'll rain on Saturday NIGHT, who knows when we were almost leaving our dormitory, it rained ! At 10 am ! The trip was cancelled and we did not have any back up plan.

Beautiful Mudeungsan (San means mountain in korean, same as chinese)
Too bad it rained and we have to postpone the trip.

After a long discussion, we decided NOT to stay in our dormitory, we NEED to leave these walls and we shall go out for some FRESH air. In the end, we went DOWNTOWN.

rain rain go away, come again another day !

It was still raining heavily when we arrived downtown, it's impossible to walk and shop ...
so we seeked shelter at a nice restaurant and enjoyed a wonderful meal.

See ! It's Nasi Pattaya actually ! hahahaha

Bought this.. Missha's top range BB Cream ... this is made of ginseng, pure gold and some other herbs in which i duno what are they called in English ...

Ingredients:

天然山参10％

純金1500

冬蟲夏草

鹿茸

益壽老丹

等等

AMAZING !

Oh ... and .. this is my crown !
Hahhaha ... I had crowned myself !

~~ Princess ~~

Jay Chou and McLaren SLR 722

I ran across a clip in youtube yesterday --> Jay Chou on CNN Talk Asia. The interview took place in Jay Chou's restaurant in Taiwan in which later i found out that the restaurant is called Mr. J French - Italian Restaurant. For more info on the restaurant, click here : Mr. J .

What made me crazy was, after the interview ended, Jay Chou sped off in his bat vehicle - like sports car. After googling it for a while, i found out that he's driving a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition. How cooooooooooool !

Jay's cool toy.

This is the last part of the interview, please watch till the end ... where you can see him entering his car and driving off ... Base on some chinese media's reportings, they claimed that Jay has a collection of 20 vintage cars in his yard .... can you imagine how rich this guy is ?