Pure breathtaking mathematical beauty
My personal silence is broken; I must apologise for the low level of activity on my part I have been very busy finishing up the first year of my second […]
Tag Archives: Science
A brief history of the universe
Carl Sagan once said “the cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be”. Statements like this deserve to be repeated; the kind of […]
Deprogram perceptions
Have you ever stopped and considered just quite how much of what you value isn’t real? Not in an abstract sense – just the simple sense of non-existence. Have a […]
The non-orbital electron
I was asked a question about electron orbitals via an email the other day – which basically asked do electrons orbit the atom or not? It is an interesting question […]
Infinity
I read something the other day, in material I had paid for which caused my great anguish. In explaining the concept of infinity it was written “[infinity] is the largest […]
A statement on the advancement of science
My friends I have been a little quiet of late, and those who have been reading recently will know why; the unthinkable happened and Britain voted to exit the European […]
A functional approach
Another little piece of chemistry today, because we did say we would try to keep a broad mind. It is often of bemusement to me why organic chemistry takes up […]
Black-body radiation
Black-body radiation is a concept you will need to grapple with when looking at cosmic background radiation, (should you choose to do so – and I would implore you to, […]
Perspective matters
Anyone who knows anything about the cosmos will know that it is vast – I hope I don’t need to tell my readers this still however the vastness of the […]
The flatness problem
I am doing a reasonable amount of reading in inflationary cosmology at the moment, thanks to a talk I went to with a German Dr of Cosmology last week – […]
Rationalising The Universe 