The Sick Bus Paradigm

When I started my journey this morning I thought that, although the weather was cold, it was not bone-chillingly cold, that is , until I reached Herne Bay, the last vist on my list. The wind chill factor was a tad notch up from the warmer clime of Canterbury. Not even brass monkeys would stand that chill for too long.

I was mightily relieved to get back to Teynham and have a hot dinner and a couple of hand warming coffee to sip.

I probably would have guessed it would have been a bad day when the bus arrived in Teynham this morning with somebody being sick in the back. They had to transfer passengers to another bus that had to come from Sheerness, so we had a delay of about twenty minutes before getting to Faversham.

Anyway, whilst in Faversham picked up a couple of books to sell online since my online trades are picking up again. I can only assume that it is the Dickens factor that is keeping book sales buoyant.

I usually transfer most of my book sales through to the bank account, but on this occasion used some of it to order the first series of The Big Bang Theory and a book by Lisa Randall “Warped Passages”, which is a glimpse into our future. It allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall allows the reader to understand the kind of problems that extra dimensions might solve and the kind of speculation that is needed even to imagine them. She also gives an introduction to developments in early twentieth century physics, particle physics and string theory and addresses current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics and gravity - and she describes the questions that are still to be solved.

Sounds fascinating, and I look forward to reading it.