Hip To Be A Geek!
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jazzy_daveWell, after the sunny warmish days during the week , today is decidedly much colder. I was going to do some visits but then decided I needed a break and hence popped over to Faversham for some relaxation.
First port of call was Past Sentence, where I sold some books, and then to the local Witherspoon pub for a beer. However, unlike the branch in Rochester, they don't seem to have any of the festival ales on tap.
Last night I got round to watching Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army. An excellent follow up to the first movie in my humble opinion.
Then I watched an Horizon science programme from the BBC on the search for the primordial gravitational waves from the initial moment of the big bang. These are very difficult to detect , and there was a false alarm back in 2014 when scientists stationed at the South Pole thought they had discovered the signature of such gravitational waves. Unfortunately , hopes were dashed when other scientists checked their results and suggested that dust particles in space were more likely to be the cause of the blip. F these primordial waves are discovered then it would collaborate Alan Guth's theory of inflation during the first few trillionths of a second of the creation of space and time.
What it does not answer is the perplexing problem of an event wothout a cause. This brings us back to supersymmetry branes, and multiple universes. All mind boggling stuff.
Talking of mind boggling stiff, I found a book in the Fleurs Bokshop that is right up my nerdy street. The book is by Dr. Graham Tattersall and is called “Geekspeak, How Life + Mathematics = Happiness”. I love the back cover blurb - “It's Hip To Be Square!”.
Which reminds me , there are still three films I want to see, The Theory of Evwrything, The Imitation Game and the latest one, X + Y. Here is a trailer -
X+Y follows Nathan, an awkward, idiosyncratic teenager, grappling with the sudden death of the one person who understood him; his father. As he struggles to connect with those around him, he is introduced to an anarchic and unconventional maths teacher who takes Nathan under his wing.
First port of call was Past Sentence, where I sold some books, and then to the local Witherspoon pub for a beer. However, unlike the branch in Rochester, they don't seem to have any of the festival ales on tap.
Last night I got round to watching Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army. An excellent follow up to the first movie in my humble opinion.
Then I watched an Horizon science programme from the BBC on the search for the primordial gravitational waves from the initial moment of the big bang. These are very difficult to detect , and there was a false alarm back in 2014 when scientists stationed at the South Pole thought they had discovered the signature of such gravitational waves. Unfortunately , hopes were dashed when other scientists checked their results and suggested that dust particles in space were more likely to be the cause of the blip. F these primordial waves are discovered then it would collaborate Alan Guth's theory of inflation during the first few trillionths of a second of the creation of space and time.
What it does not answer is the perplexing problem of an event wothout a cause. This brings us back to supersymmetry branes, and multiple universes. All mind boggling stuff.
Talking of mind boggling stiff, I found a book in the Fleurs Bokshop that is right up my nerdy street. The book is by Dr. Graham Tattersall and is called “Geekspeak, How Life + Mathematics = Happiness”. I love the back cover blurb - “It's Hip To Be Square!”.
Which reminds me , there are still three films I want to see, The Theory of Evwrything, The Imitation Game and the latest one, X + Y. Here is a trailer -
X+Y follows Nathan, an awkward, idiosyncratic teenager, grappling with the sudden death of the one person who understood him; his father. As he struggles to connect with those around him, he is introduced to an anarchic and unconventional maths teacher who takes Nathan under his wing.
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