ATM

The current default mode of the ATM outside the Co-op in our village seems to be "Out Of Order" , ever since the new software was installed.It is very frustrating.

I am off now to do the last two travel agent visits.

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Gravity Waves

So another part in the jigsaw of the Big Bang has been detected today, albeit, with following repeated experiments to prove that it is the case, and if confirmed, will be a milestone for the standard cosmological theory of how the universe began. The discovery of gravity waves ,as predicted by Einstein, confirms that the universe in the first few microseconds inflated faster than the speed of light from a singularity to a large ball.

The question  now is to find a cause for the effect as science hates effects without a cause. Spontaneous creation from nothing goes against the idea of causality, but then maybe the Bang was caused bu something that as yet we cannot understand. I favour the idea of a multiverse in which two such universes collided on their respective membranes which then caused the gravity waves to produce the Bang in the first place.

Does it put the idea of string theory in the dock? I doubt it, as we still don't know how the gravity waves in the first place caused the Bang. What it will mean i that scientists will now be checking the results and to see if their pet theories still fit the observational evidence.

Gravesend Visit

Another lovely day for travelling. After a stint in the Office i popped over to Gravesend to do another travel agent covert shop. Afterwards, i looed looked around the town , only finding two charity shops, and with nothing that inspired me, i went home without anything.

I did take a picture of the lovely clock tower that adorns the east end of the town.



On the way back we passed Higham where Dickens once resided. He lived at Gad's Hill Place from 1856 and died there in 1870. 

Thud!

I heard a loud thud whilst watching a special charity version of Only Connect on television this evening. It emanated  from upstairs. So i used the live pause button and went to investigate. The cat had climbed over the pile of books and sent some of them crashing to the floor. I had to pick them up and re-order them into a much less prone accident resistant stack. The cat had disappeared into the next room.

I then got back to watching my programme.