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Q: What did one uranium-238 nucleus say to the other? A: “Gotta split!” An Unsolved Question in Biophysics: Does a radioactive cat have 18 half-lives? Two atoms were walking across a road when one of them said, “I think I lost an electron!” “Really!” the other replied, “Are you sure?” “Yes, I ‘m absolutely positive.” It is believed that Einstein’s favorite limerick was: There was an old lady called Wright who could travel much faster than light. She departed one day in a relative way and returned on the previous night. PHYSICS DEPARTMENT BELS PHYSICS STUDENTS ATTENDED CERN BRIEFING Erzurum Commerce and Industry Chamber organized an Information Meeting about the promotion of European Organisation of Nuclear Research (CERN), business opportunities and ongoing accelerator technologies in Turkey. After Turkey became an associate member of CERN in 2014 Turkish businessmen, scientists and educators are provided more opportunities to take part in commercial, scientific and educational activites of CERN. ETSO’s (Erzurum Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası- Erzurum Commerce and Industry Chamber) purpose of organizing this briefing was primarily to inform the associated people of Erzurum about the possible ways of engaging these commercial, scientific and educational activites. Our school physics teacher Zeynep Tuğba Kahyaoğlu had attended to CERN Turkish Teachers Programme in 2015 February in Geneva hence our school became the only high school invited to this briefing by ETSO. THE CLAPPER 2015 - 2016 49