Eternal Inflation and Other Ideas

Here is something i found quite funny in the back page of New Scientist -

A UK delivery company informed a recipient it had "1 item : Total weight 0.000 kg." , "That" the recipient said," will be the anti-gravity machine i ordered last week".

Boom boom !

Meanwhile, i have been watching parts of that Horizon programme again. One of the ideas is that we live in a multiverse  in which a catastrophic collision might have caused the universe we live in. The other one which i find persuasive is the one put forward by Michio Kaku is that the universe began from a long period of sustained energy without the presence of matter, and as we know that matter and energy are equivalent, matter can easily appear as bubbles in a  vacuum energy plasma. The other idea proposed is one of eternal inflation in which the universe comes out of energy , expands and cools off, in which protons decay back into energy again starting the next inflation stage. Buddhist ideas seem to abound in these modern ideas in cosmology.

Some of these suggest initial conditions and others do not. Perhaps in the next ten years we will be closer to the real aspect of reality and that the big bang was not a cause without an effect.

Renaissance Studies

I shall be reading more about the Italian Renaissance today, as i picked this book up for fifty pence in Faversham on Monday, and will be taking it along with me on my visits.



and thus will complement this book -

My tweets

• Tue, 15:21: Ukraine http://t.co/KyDKfh7bx8
• Tue, 19:51: I added a video to a @YouTube playlist http://t.co/e9KL0XXKSc Rasha - Azara alhai
• Tue, 19:54: March Forth http://t.co/I3z8nMO4Ns
• Tue, 20:22: Last nights University Challenge got all the science ones correct plus the books - yay!
• Tue, 22:01: Before The Big Bang http://t.co/TuN7NQg5Up
• Tue, 23:35: As usual watched something on catch up TV and fell asleep halfway through it lol
• Wed, 08:04: Climb every mountain in LJ terms up to position 2571 , up by 72 places
• Wed, 08:06: Another fine sunny day is in store
• Wed, 08:24: Eternal Inflation and Other Ideas http://t.co/BPgPq4mtKY
• Wed, 10:02: Renaissance Studies http://t.co/HNnjjo5tyO

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A Done Deal

Today, on a lovely warm sunny day, i visited the coastal town of Deal. I had a couple of visits to do, one a cobblers and the other a travel agents. .This was completed after a morning spent  in the Office. I had a good few minutes available to walk around the town, and take a couple of photos.

Julius Caesar, the Roman Emperor, landed onshore between Deal and the nearby Walmer way back in 55 BC , but due to a severe storm that destroyed many of their ships, his stay was short and extricated by the local Britons. He returned the following year with more ships and soldiers but due to problems elsewhere within the Empire decided that it was  a lost cause. We were not invaded till another hundred years.

Deal has an extant castle, along with the one at Walmer, and one that use to be in Sandwich to the north , all commissioned and built on behalf of Henry VIII in 1540. Unfortunately i did not have time to look around the two castles.

However, i did take a couple of photos of the 1000 ft long Deal pier.





 

A Canterbury Tale

After my visit to Deal i took the bus back to Canterbury for my free meal and drinks visit at a Wetherspoons pub, the lovely West Gate Inn.



As it was a Wednesday they do a Chicken Club evening, so i had the chicken and peppers skewers with chips, coleslaw and peri peri  sauce. IIt was washed down with a glass of their house Coldwater creek Chardonnay and a pint  of the spookily delicious Adnams Ghost Ship (4.5 % ABV).. I still had some time to wait for my connecting bus back to Faversham so i finished with a pint of Sixpoint Make It rRin Ale (5.0 % ABV), a craft beer from Brooklyn, New York USA, followed by a half of Mad Cat Amber Copper Ale (4.2% ABV) from a newish brewery in Faversham.

Just a note for the aleheads among us, Adnams is based in the sleepy Suffolk town of Southwold and have collaborated brewing of this fine American craft ale. Details and link here -

http://adnams.co.uk/about/news/beer-news/new-collaboration-beer-make-it-rain-exclusively-available-at-wetherspoon-outlets/



In total, a good day.