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Just a number, or is it!
I can do no better than republish in full the following: (Simply because I scarcely understand it!) ooOOoo Why the number 137 is one of the greatest mysteries in physics Famous physicists like Richard...
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It stretches the mind beyond imagination!
The most incredible story of all! I first read the story early yesterday morning in The Guardian Newspaper. But then I saw another version of the same story on the BBC News site, from which I republish...
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The Morse Code is 175 years old!
Two days of nostalgia follow! (You have been warned!) As many of you already know, my father died fairly suddenly on December 20th, 1956. I had turned 12 some six weeks previously. After about a year...
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More on the magnificent Hubble!
The BBC have published an excellent article. There was such a good response to the article on the Hubble that I published on April 27th that it was an easy decision to republish the article that was...
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Out of the mouths of young people!
A young man aged eight asks a very deep question. Now the answer, that I am about to republish, is written to Tristan, aged 8. But frankly I have no doubt that the answer will be keenly read by persons...
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And what about mathematics?
Yet another revelation! Fairly soon after publishing my post about music and the dog world I came across another article on dogs, and other animals, having a sense of numbers. Now this post which was...
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Simply in awe!
It’s both beautiful and yet beyond comprehension. When we have a clear night there are two occasions for me to gaze upwards and become lost in thought. One is in the evening when the dogs are outside...
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Yet more of the big question.
Time! I wasn’t going to publish a post for today but then yesterday I read this article on The Conversation and wanted to share it with you. In fact it shares much of what I posted on the 1st, The Big...
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To state the obvious, it’s in the numbers!
A wonderful, and educational, item on The Conversation. I was listening to an item on the BBC yesterday morning and counting came up. The need for counting was incredibly early on in our history. Here...
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Picture Parade Four Hundred and Fifty
Today is the Autumn Equinox. At the equinoxes, the ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect. See the intersection point on this imaginary great circle, representing the dome of Earth’s sky? The...
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