It’s getting hot in here
I have been doing a lot of reading around global warming – partly from an academic perspective and in part for general interest. It really is a hot topic (pun […]
Category Archives: Physics
I’d rather be late to the party, than not arrive at all
Happy Sunday my friends. Over the last week the science community has been buzzing. In many many ways this is great… I love it when the front page of newspapers are […]
When a great man speaks
This post is to serve as a recommendation to anyone who might not have yet caught the Reith Lectures for 2016 – because they are well worth it. I was […]
The Little Book of String Theory
This post is essentially a quick recommendation for a book. For some reason (I am not sure if error or intentional) the book seems to have been made available online […]
Warmth in the darkest of places
Black holes have been a source of fascination for physicists and science generalists for years. There is no way to actually observe what happens in a black hole, due to […]
The limitations of life
Of great fascination to me is speed – a simple but often overlooked little quality representing the rate of change of position over time. One of the really exciting things […]
The beauty of being the same
As is the case with many of the important things in the universe, they pass by without due consideration. Today we muse over a funny old thing – symmetry. The […]
Kepler 438b, a viable opportunity?
Keplar 438b is around the same size as Earth is and orbits a cooler star than the sun with a year of around 35 days. Temperature wise it is around the […]
A hidden world
Today we talk of one of the most exciting things that is currently going on at CERN – which let’s face it is one of the most exciting places in […]
Why does the sky bleed?
The above photograph shows the view from my bedroom on a winters morning. It is one of the traits of any scientist when they see something like this to stop […]
Rationalising The Universe 