Bring in the tears

Oh my GOD! I have not screwed up so much at work in my entire life! I was sitting quietly training my magnet. For those of you who don’t know a superconducting magnet that has been exposed to room temperature needs to slowly be brought up to high fields. All of sudden POP! HISS!! A Huge cloud of helium gas starts filling the room. Yup my magnet quenched, which happens from time to time at huge fields with a 30 year old magnet, but what makes this quench even more spectacular is that I did not remove a magnetic beam stop from the high field area. It went flying across the room and smashed into my magnet. Yup I didn’t quench the thing, I totally fucked it up. TOTALLY!!! There is broken glass from the window; still huge amounts of Nitrogen blowing in the room and my very fragile, very expensive quantum dot samples were blow right out of the room. The beam stop is twisted too. I am still in such a state of shock, but I am going to start crying any minute. I know there are no tears in physics, hell there aren’t any women in physics either. I can’t imagine what my co-workers are going to think when I start crying, oh I think the tears are here.