UNIT 7

unit 7 have evolved and re-imaged their product since relocating to kingston upon hull, and from herein shall be known as

Joe Quillin grew up in a small krill farming community, but has never looked back since starting his career as a concrete research technician

Perfectly imperfect English eccentrics with enough money, time, bile and brain cells to make the statements and it’s a possibility that we don’t have the workplace mass-murders that the yanks do because our vaguely frustrated middle class, middle Englanders are chopping out some cool strat chords and forgetting the bullets - the whole thing is quite Ray Davies cum Brian Eno bumming a clean one from Pete Doherty.
Which reminds me, Unit 7 are actually rather good.

August 2003- Hop poles, Enfield, www.ngomanazeze.com

September - Crouch hill community centre, www.chillonthehill.co.uk

November - Nigel's house, West Ealing, www.the-67.net

November -The Spice of Life, Soho

December -The Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, www.bullandgate.co.uk

January 2004 - The Buffalo Bar, Islington. Klinker Club, Islington, www.klinkerclub.info.

February - Cartoon, Croydon, Surrey. www.thecartoon.co.uk

March - The Verge, Kentish Town.
The Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, www.bullandgate.co.uk
Elbow Room, Islington, N1.

April - The Half Moon, Putney, SW15

Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, related the following story.

"Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.
The question was "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building."
When asked to repeat the test, he dashed off this answer - "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x=0.5*a*t^2, calculate the height of the building." At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit.

While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were. "Well," said the student, "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building."
"Fine," I said, "and others?"
"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units." "A very direct method", I replied.

"Of course if you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g [gravity] at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated."
"On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession".

"Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer.'"
At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.

The name of the student was Niels Bohr."

Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish Physicist; Nobel Prize 1922; best known for proposing the first 'model' of the atom with protons & neutrons, and the various energy states of the surrounding electrons - the familiar icon of the small nucleus circled by three elliptical orbits - and more significantly, an innovator in Quantum Theory.