I have just spent rather too much of the last hour and a bit watching videos about heat treatments for metals. some ten years after a colleague "lent" me his copy of Cottrell's Introduction to Metallurgy that took me down such a deep rabbit hole that he eventually stormed into my office with a copy he'd bought for me, demanding his own back 😂, I continue to find this stuff endlessly fascinating. #metallurgy

@sellathechemist Have you ever watched the TV program:

"Forged in Fire".

Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating.

@ColinTheMathmo No. I need to watch that. I've just spent too much time thinking about aerospace alloys and now I'm late for a talk I'm giving at Institute of Physics. Yikes. #StrangeIce

@sellathechemist Something to note ... one of the contestants won an episode, then a second episode, and ended up as a judge.

He remained undefeated for the longest time in "Beat the Judge" episodes.

He is also the first named author on the LIGO paper that announced the discovery of gravity waves.