{"id":10350,"date":"2024-04-27T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/04\/27\/cloud-chamber-finale\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:41","slug":"cloud-chamber-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/04\/27\/cloud-chamber-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Chamber Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiwSzB8aoulqjJJDyKydE8eFl4pE1wuve883D4pt-EamL5SpCJBiuSdwr8dg3RYJ4XexVWHgyvkDiki_6jU8erXkhK7-04IEOa7CeEym0EadNgZkasTgEBUuWzJKAYjzOF27WWT6RXO1nNMGJypJWgHn3kjVBSOsZ77JJQ0H7JlpjoYn3nH9ADKouFALwg\/s2675\/IMG_7675.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1997\" data-original-width=\"2675\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_7675-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Today&#8217;s aparatus (above). Chamber is larger and I left the bottom sealed. It sits directly atop a chunk of dry ice. The spongeat the top is soaked in alcohol. <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rQw_yHBEkYY?si=NsRVZnzp-iT7QqkC?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>This is a one minute clip. It does seem a bit like watching paint dry, but you will see many atomic particles moving through the cloud. If you look to the right side of the screen you will see that the cloud has started to rain alcohol. I will put additional clips on the Patreon site. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_7678.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3896\" data-original-width=\"2658\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_7678.jpg\" width=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>Harry Cliff&#8217;s wonderful book mentions the origins of the cloud chamber. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjYraGOC_cVzmLOTzBHkiCQQpiyXdn6TgcWBUyoH8vjz5_sm78zO5bMf1uKfrZW37zYNawVKLMd4VVJb7mI-5CVTlxQzk2qQ7KDH2P_FhDrFdeZVeZHxnMEpaCtfPiNEHGg1CQsk38_EVRVRJFq7LrC70g0jBZdpzR63qdubv0VMctyitQkcC-_8OG3oxA\/s3460\/IMG_7676.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2699\" data-original-width=\"3460\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_7676-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Click for a better view. <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_7677.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1909\" data-original-width=\"2688\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_7677.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Click for a better view\/<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Here&#8217;s an interesing site on cloud chambers: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk\/scatter\/cloud.html#:~:text=Operate%20the%20chamber%20in%20a,approximately%20parallel%20and%20horizontal%20beam.\"><b>https:\/\/www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk\/scatter\/cloud.html#:~:text=Operate%20the%20chamber%20in%20a,approximately%20parallel%20and%20horizontal%20beam.<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>And here&#8217;s another one: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scoollab.web.cern.ch\/cloud-chamber#:~:text=The%20cloud%20chamber%20was%20one,dry%20ice%2C%20and%20Isopropyl%20alcohol.\"><b>https:\/\/scoollab.web.cern.ch\/cloud-chamber#:~:text=The%20cloud%20chamber%20was%20one,dry%20ice%2C%20and%20Isopropyl%20alcohol.<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>I think that is all I will do on the cloud chambers. This was a lot of fun, but I am running out of dry ice. There is, however, a lot of room for improvement and experimentation here, and a project likes this puts you in touch with the earliest days of particle physics (as Harry Cliff explains above). Good luck on 1.22 nanometers! Please let us know how you do. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Here is one more look at the &#8220;output&#8221; of my cloud chamber. This is a ten minute video. You can see many traces in this. Check it out: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbwbulRqYsY\"><b>More Cloud Chamber traces. April 26, 2024 (youtube.com)<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Thank you Charles Wilson. And thank you C.L. Stong. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s aparatus (above). Chamber is larger and I left the bottom sealed. It sits directly atop a chunk of dry ice. The spongeat the top is soaked in alcohol. This is a one minute clip. It does seem a bit like watching paint dry, but you will see many atomic particles moving through the cloud. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/04\/27\/cloud-chamber-finale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cloud Chamber Finale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,39,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-chamber","category-physics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}