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 […]
Category Archives: Science
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 […]
In the news this week
This isn’t going to become a regular feature of the page, because I don’t personally think it is often interesting. Sometimes it is – but generally science news can often […]
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 […]
Happy new year to all
First and foremost let me say a very big thank you to everyone who has viewed, commented, liked or interacted in anyway with Rationalising the Universe over the last few […]
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 […]
To probe, or not to probe?
Mission Juice will take a billion euros and convert this into a probe which will find out if any of the moons around Jupiter could host microbial life. Could 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 […]
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