Hip To Be A Geek!

[jazzy_dave]

Well, 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.

Comments

[coming42.livejournal.com]

I have seen both The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game. Both films (movies) are superb and I have a slight preference for TIG. I now have TIG on Blue-ray so when you are next in Brighton for the Beer Festival find some time to stop by my place and we can watch it together bro.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan.