Weather, Cosmology and the Universe

[jazzy_dave]

Well we sure are having an Indian summer with temperatures unbelievably  high for this time of the year. Even now approaching eleven at night we are still in the low twenties.

Whilst in Faversham i sold some paperbacks and used the local library. Did a few hours of sunbathing just outside said library in spurts of thirty minutes each,as the sweat was pouring off me.

I arrived back in the Bourne and had the second shower of the day.Listened to a Cd compilation of the songs of Burt Bacharach by various artists, watched a fee episodes of Charmed, had some more coffee vodka bevvies and chilled out.

I also watched another Horizon documentary - How Big Is The Universe.

It is vast.The Milky Way alone is 100 thousand light years across.The universe is around 46 billion light years and expanding rapidly due to dark energy. The thing is we as yet do not know exactly what dark energy is but that it takes up around 70 per cent of the universe and defies the pulling force of gravity and dark matter. In a sense the universe is infinite. That is rather sobering.

Comments

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Definitely and Indian Summer. In the low temperatures at night is just too hot. I would not be able to sleep without a fan. There's usually lots of little biting insects go with that here.

I don't think Id go sunbaking in those temperatures! Not unless it was interspersed with dips in a very cold stream like we have around here. And I would be wearing lots of sunscreen!

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