{"id":472,"date":"2011-10-21T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2011\/10\/21\/old_and_new\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:58:56","slug":"old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2011\/10\/21\/old-and-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t resist telling you this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, after the conference sessions had finished and before the conference dinner, I travelled with my students by train from Wellington to Lower Hutt, to do a lightning visit to a couple of labs at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irl.cri.nz\/\">Industrial Research Ltd<\/a>. It was a very informative visit &#8211; I need to spend a bit more time there when I have the opportunity. Amongst other deeply technical things which I won&#8217;t bore you with I got to see official NZ standard time &#8211; The Clock that by definition is correct (at least in NZ) &#8211; you feel kind of privileged to be able to set your watch from it, knowing for an instant at least, your watch is going to be right. Really right.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the point of the story. It&#8217;s the trains. It was the first time that I&#8217;d taken a suburban train in Wellington, and boy was it a retro experience. A rickety old carriage with nets for luggage racks, little cardboard tickets, that nostalgic rattle-rattle-rattle sound from underneath you. It was much like 1970&#8217;s British Rail &#8211; took me right back to my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something deeply ironic about travelling to a place that is a world leader in technologies such as superconductivity and nanotechnology, by a mode of transport that is, &#8230;.well, &#8230;shall we say, not world-leading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t resist telling you this&#8230; Tuesday, after the conference sessions had finished and before the conference dinner, I travelled with my students by train from Wellington to Lower Hutt, to do a lightning visit to a couple of labs at Industrial Research Ltd. 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