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Synchronicity
I stumbled across this a while ago and, with my mind emptied by a day full of meetings, I thought I’d take the opportunity to post it today along with a couple of random connections that sprang… more →
In the Dark
Synchronicity
wrote 2 days ago: I stumbled across this a while ago and, with my mind emptied by a day full of meetings, I thought I … more →
The Moral Activity which Disentangles
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wrote 3 days ago: I came across this last night and thought I would share it with you. It’s the preamble to Edga … more →
All models are wrong
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wrote 1 week ago: I’m back in Cardiff for the day, mainly for the purpose of attending presentations by a group … more →
How to make a knotted vortex ring
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wrote 1 week ago: Not long ago I posted a short item about the physics of vortex rings. More recently I stumbled acros … more →
Hall and Knight (or `z + b + x = y + b + z')
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wrote 1 week ago: This poem will be a bit of a puzzle to younger readers, so I’ll just explain that Messrs Hall … more →
The Mystery of Cosmic Magnetism
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wrote 1 week ago: I came across an article in New Scientist recently on the topic of cosmological magnetism. The piece … more →
Cute Nuclear Physics Problem
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wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s been quite a while since I posted anything in the cute physics problems folder – mo … more →
Lines on the Death of Herschel
wrote 3 weeks ago: So farewell, then, Herschel Space Observatory. You were named after William Herschel, Who lived Duri … more →
Breaking down a breakdown
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wrote 1 month ago: A blog piece by Dean Burnett I read on on the Grauniad website yesterday set me thinking about whet … more →
HFLS3: the earliest Starburst yet!
wrote 1 month ago: Once again I’ve spent all day engaged in the enjoyable but exhausting task of interview for ne … more →
Neutrino Physics in a Small Universe
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wrote 1 month ago: I’ve only just got time for a quick lunchtime post before I head off to attend an afternoon of … more →
Remembering David Axon
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wrote 1 month ago: Over the past couple of days there has been a special Memorial Event to remember David Axon, my pred … more →
Dirac Lectures
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wrote 1 month ago: Earlier this year I posted a review of a book about the great theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Pres … more →
A Small Problemette related to Cosmological non-Gaussianity
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wrote 1 month ago: Writing yesterday’s post I remembered doing a calculation a while ago which I filed away and n … more →
Has Planck closed the window on the Early Universe?
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wrote 1 month ago: A combination of circumstances – including being a bit poorly – has made me rather late … more →
Dark Matter from AMS? Not really...
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wrote 1 month ago: Reblogged from Of Particular Significance: The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer finally reported its firs … more →
The Universe through a lens, darkly...
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wrote 1 month ago: Just time to post this neat picture I found on the BBC Website this morning: Although these images w … more →
Planck, Pointillism and the Axle of Elvis
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wrote 2 months ago: The reason I was out of the office yesterday was that I was in Cambridge, doing a PhD oral in the Ca … more →
Con Alma
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wrote 2 months ago: Well, Herschel may be going blind but it seems that just as one observatory gets ready to close its … more →
