… they do come: Cosmic Rays. They penetrate time and space, traveling Megaparsecs of distances to give us a glimpse of the most exotic and oldest objects in space. Accelerated in the process to violent to imagine, they reach energies which are well beyond our technical capabilities.

Oh, all right, stop it! Obviously, the real picture of the radiation that is bombarding our little planet is a bit more complicated and actually not very well known. And this conference I am stuck at is summarizing more or less the status quo in experiment and theory in unraveling the mysteries of a radioactive space…

So, to make it short: Iam thrilled and enthralled and tired to the bone. After four days of constant sessions (8.30 – 13.30 with short breaks, and then 16.30-18.30) I am completely saturated and cannot digest any more information! But, to my luck, the tour day is coming up tomorrow! I will be visiting Chichen Itza while slowly cooking/broiling in 36C in the shade. And there is no shade on that pyramid…

Otherwise, there isn’t much to report from here. I will have some time to do some museum tours on Monday or Tuesday, but otherwise I just try to get away long enough from the conference to get half an hour or so at the pool! Couldn’t do it today, though, we just had a major downpour… sigh…

Ok, I am falling asleep while typing this, so I will switch off. Expect some stories and pix tomorrow!