THE END OF THE EARTH #1, PUNTJIE, WESTERN CAPE
THE END OF THE EARTH, CAPE POINT, WESTERN CAPE
These cliffs are always reminding us of the ‘End of the Earth’ - here indeed ends, it seems like it just falls into the deep dark sea.
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On background the Material Research Department (MRD).
'The main goal is to understand how elements are created in the universe - everything is started after the big bang and from the big bang to the time where we have now the earth with the humans, with the vegetation, animals - there was a lot of time and during each sequence of the time new particles have been created, a new state of matter.'
Dr. Faïçal Azaiez, Director, iThemba LABS, Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences
DRIED PALM , ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN
'The main goal is to understand how elements are created in the universe - everything is started after the big bang and from the big bang to the time where we have now the earth with the humans, with the vegetation, animals - there was a lot of time and during each sequence of the time new particles have been created, a new state of matter.'
Dr. Faïçal Azaiez, Director, iThemba LABS, Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences
On background the Material Research Department (MRD).
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'This is a beam dump - where the beam comes through from the target. This is the end of protons life! Obviously if we don't stop protons here, they will carry on traveling and they would probably be leaving the facility and moving at a speed equal to around the world four times in a second... usually we have an average of maybe 10 million, millions, particles per second ending their life here"
Dr. Pete Jones, Senior Researcher, IThemba LABS, Cape Town
BEAM-DUMP, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN
This part is where the accelerated charged particles that haven’t interact with the target nuclei are stopped.
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