Map that Campus XXVIII

Let's end this year with a bang!

Here is this week's mystery campus:
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hint: It's getting cold.

As usual, leave your answers in the comment section.

(although I screwed up last time, don't worry, Willie is warm!)

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Still not NU, but interesting... Looks like a new commuter campus, rather thann your usual old, established school (all that parking!)

Good Link!

"with a bang" - that's obviously a reference to Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite. It must be Nobel University. Motto: Truth Creation Charity.

By Mustafa Mond, FCD (not verified) on 29 Dec 2006 #permalink

Hey, that's not a school! (even if it was where I did most of my graduate research) But, I guess there's nothing in the word "campus" that necessarily implies an educational institution.

Let's end this year with a bang!

And a big bang at that!

Prof. Bang used to teach astronomy at Northwestern, but I think he's retired by now.

By Mustafa Mond, FCD (not verified) on 29 Dec 2006 #permalink

One would think that a bang rings a Bell with people ;) However, don't want to be a spoil-sport, so I'm mailing the solution.

By Uschi Symmons (not verified) on 29 Dec 2006 #permalink

One would think that a bang rings a Bell with people ;)

Don't be silly. What does that have to do with Northwestern?

By Mustafa Mond, FCD (not verified) on 29 Dec 2006 #permalink

4 degrees Kelvin is warm relative to the regard our neighbors in New York have toward the Garden State (swamps and all, you know). And Lucent's campus (formerly Bell Labs) at Murray Hill is right next to the Great Swamp! Ironic, isn't it?

By Arrowsmith (not verified) on 29 Dec 2006 #permalink

Hey, happy new year, Alex!

Sorry 'bout that delay.

rings a Bell with people

I would hope so! (Uschi Symmons, I never got your email?)

Lucent's campus (formerly Bell Labs) at Murray Hill

Arrowsmith, yes it is!

OK I got the email.

It's the Murray Hill Faculty of Bell Labs in New Jersey. This is where Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson worked in 1964 when they discovered cosmic background radiation using a microwave receiver. This background radiation was suggested to be "fossil radiation" from the big bang ("end this year with a bang"). For their discovery they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. The same year a Russian scientist, Piotr Kapitsa, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his inventions in low-temperature physics (hence "it's getting cold"?).

Uschi

The quote is a refference to the backgroud radiation. As time progressed after the big bang, it was predicted that wavelength of the radiation generated by this event would get longer and less energetic (getting colder).

With the clues about "bang" and "cold", I thought maybe it had something to do with the fabled endothermic bomb.

By Mustafa Mond, FCD (not verified) on 02 Jan 2007 #permalink

Reminds me of my favorite Ross Perot quote from the 1992 presidential campaign: "NAFTA -- a giant sucking sound going South". NAFTA, of course, being the North American Free Trade Agreement. I guess the sucking sound ended up going West across the Pacific and had nothing to do with NAFTA (or your post for that matter).

By Theodore Price (not verified) on 03 Jan 2007 #permalink