fluores-scents

Too bad I don't have a picture at home... now my fluorescence experiment works! Remember how I was writing about the project, and I said that when a molecule absorbs energy, it would rather spit it out? And it does that by throwing off a photon? Well I collected the light using a camera and so we can tell exactly where the molecule was sitting in the 50 nanoseconds or so that it takes to emit. It's pretty accurate too--in that 50 ns time the molecule flies about the width of a hair.

Tomorrow we are getting a washing machine! This is very exciting. It's coming at 6:30. That leaves time for several loads before bed.

One last bit of news. At the moment there is a documentary about prostitutes on TV. We can't understand the words. That's probably good.