Halfbakery: Meeting
Brisbane Heisenberg Halfcon   (+4)  [vote for, against]
Can you guess where I'm calling from?

The idea is that this is a truly halfbaked invitation to a halfcon, in Brisbane, Australia.

Heads up for anyone in the Brisbane area on Tuesday 19 June, 2012. There will be a halfcon in the lobby at the Brisbane Hilton Hotel.

Of course, this time may have already passed, in your part of the world, so you can think of it as a Heisenberg Halfcon, if that is the case.
-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012

Ooooh, oooh! I think I can just make that one. You will recognize me as I won't be wearing a carnation in my lapel. [+]
-- AusCan531, Jun 22 2012


Apologies, I won't be able to have made it.
-- tatterdemalion, Jun 22 2012


I was there tomorrow, where were you guys?
-- Alterother, Jun 22 2012


They would have been being happy at the likely participation of their online friends.
-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012


You'll be laughing on the other side of your face in around six centuries' time when the Arabs have taken over Australia and there really is a halfcon there. I have no explanation for their adoption of Gregorian month names though.
-- nineteenthly, Jun 22 2012


I plan to be dead in six centuries from now.
-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012


//this time may have already passed, in your part of the world//

Nah. When it's 2012 in the UK, it'll still only be about 1957 in oz.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 22 2012


I'll make an effort to send some nutrinos that passed briefly through me in that direction. If I'm really extraordinarily lucky I might deflect one.

I'll also make an effort to pop some particles in and out of existence there that may or may not have any association with my person whatsoever.
-- RayfordSteele, Jun 22 2012


Ah, you poor insubstantial and tiny person who is not a neutronium sphere a parsec in diameter, [RayfordSteele].
-- nineteenthly, Jun 22 2012


Will Schrödinger be there?
-- xandram, Jun 22 2012


Probably.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 22 2012


//'ll make an effort to send some nutrinos that passed briefly through me in that direction.//

Hmmm.
Apparently the primordial neutrino flux is 3*10^12 (neutrinos per square centimeter per second.
Or 3*10^16 per square meter per second.
Presumably these are evenly distributed.
Consider a sphere with the surface area (in m^2) of the neutrino flux (per sec per m^2). Each square meter of the surface will pass a neutrino from that central square meter on average once a second.
Therefore, the range at which you can reliably emit a neutrino from a 1m^2 'source' to a 1m^2 target in a few seconds is:
sqrt(3*10^16/(4*pi))=2.4*10^15 meters

UnaBubba, I'm sending you more neutrinos than you'll ever need. Use them wisely.
-- Loris, Jun 22 2012


// UnaBubba, I'm sending you more neutrinos than you'll ever need. Use them wisely //

We're sending you a cat, a detector and a radioactive source in a sealed box. Second class. Via Bulgaria, Tristan da Cunha and Solihull. Don't open the box, it will probably smell baaaaaad ... but you won't know, unless you open the box.
-- 8th of 7, Jun 22 2012


Bob
-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012


//Seems wrong to me.//

_possibly_ fixed. Think I neglected a bracket in the written formula, so I put one in. I might have made other mistakes in the calculation (it took longer than I had to write the anno, so I was in a hurry). I've still not checked it properly though - hope to get back to it.
-- Loris, Jun 23 2012


Do people from here meet up for halfbakedness or was this a one-off?
-- Phrontistery, Jul 01 2012


Usually we just meet in small groups and laugh about those not in on the joke, [Phront].
-- UnaBubba, Jul 01 2012


I can see why there aren't many.
-- Phrontistery, Jul 03 2012


Sorry, were you invited?
-- UnaBubba, Jul 03 2012


There's a certain satisfaction in seeing someone prove me right :)
-- Phrontistery, Jul 03 2012


I wasn't there again, today.
-- pertinax, Jul 12 2012



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