Dry?

When i woke up this morning it was teaming with rain but now it has dried up. No visits planned today or tomorrow but as i am heading off to Faversham on Saturday i will probably either do Whitstable or Sheerness. I have ten charity shop visits this month that includes Hythe, Deal, Rochester, Paddock Wood,Tenterden and Lewes.


I have almost finished another paperback book , an easy to read primer on quantum physics. No complicated maths involved although anything to do with quantum physics is counter intuitive. Such concepts as superposition , quantum entanglement and quantum tunnelling are head spinning. This book is one of those New Scientist Instant Expert paperbacks. I find the whole subject as fascinating.

As i write the sun has come out and now we have blues skies.

Book 2 - New Scientist "The Quantum World"

New Scientist "The Quantum World The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality: " (John Murray Learning)







I started reading this during the Xmas holiday and finished this afternoon. This is a very introdcuction to quantumm mechanics and the weirdness it entails, and for the non-scientist there is no mathematics or formulae inside to befuddle the average reader.

Tthe thoughts are so contrary to what we and see and sense that it must be extremely difficult to grasp, even for a talented physicist.
Don't feel bad if you don't understand everything, or anything, that is talked about here as they are so counter intuative but persevere and you wil enjoy the scintillating ride. The authors have done their best is bring a mind-boggling series of thoughts into an everyday world and, to a great extent, they have succeeded. But even Einstein didn't understand this stuff and insisted to the end that God did not play dice with the universe.

Next read may well be about quantum entanglement or supersymmetry but until i open the book they remain in a quantum flux of uncertainty.

Inception

After the generally lovely afternoon the evening became more blustery and the last hour or so it has been raining. I watched a few more episodes of AoS Season 3 and watched the other DVD I bought in Tenterden – Inception. This is another well written complex and weird film that I saw at the cinema when it came out in 2010. Produced by Christopher Nolan , it is as good as his Insomnia.


In Inception, Nolan wanted to explore "the idea of people sharing a dream space...That gives you the ability to access somebody's unconscious mind. What would that be used and abused for ? The majority of the film's plot takes place in these interconnected dream worlds. This structure creates a framework where actions in the real or dream worlds ripple across others. The dream is always in a state of production, and shifts across the levels as the characters navigate it.

Deirdre Barrett, a dream researcher at Harvard University, said that Nolan did not get every detail accurate regarding dreams, but their illogical, rambling, disjointed plots would not make for a great thriller anyway. However, "he did get many aspects right," she said, citing the scene in which a sleeping Cobb is shoved into a full bath, and in the dream world water gushes into the windows of the building, waking him up. "That's very much how real stimuli get incorporated, and you very often wake up right after that intrusion".


Nolan himself said, "I tried to work that idea of manipulation and management of a conscious dream being a skill that these people have. Really the script is based on those common, very basic experiences and concepts, and where can those take you? And the only outlandish idea that the film presents, really, is the existence of a technology that allows you to enter and share the same dream as someone else."

(Wikipedia).