Europe had a solar eclipse last week or so. A colleague from work bought some glasses for viewing and organized a trip out to the construction site as a duo see the eclipse and site outing.
This was our first encounter on site. These are all port-a-cabins where the construction company works. Come January of next year, we will also be in these cabins on site. They are super nice and it was hard to tell they were temporary. There was even an elevator.
This is a view of the accelerator tunnel construction. There's not so much to see, as the name states, it's a tunnel and therefore under the ground.
The site construction part was good. It's crazy to think that when the main building is built, it will be based on decisions I made. That seems really weird!
It had been sunny three days in a row, but unfortunately on the day we went it was super cloudy. That was good for the fact that we could look up without glasses, but we had to wait for breaks where it was less cloudy. The glasses were totally useless since the sun wasn't bright enough for us to see anything except our own eyeball reflections.
There's nothing quite like a bunch of scientists talking about diffraction, attenuation, refraction and diffuse scattering. All reasons why the cloud cover made what we saw look the way it did. I think the lady from the construction site was a bit bored. She asked us how much longer we thought we'd be because she wanted to get some work done.
We were freezing and we couldn't tell there was any less sun because there was already no light to speak of with such heavy cloud cover, but we got a few glimpses of the eclipse and it was a great way to spend Friday morning. We all had a lot of fun!
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