The Quantum Spoon Renormalization
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jazzy_daveArrived back in Teynham around three in the afternoon after a good journey broken up by a coffee break in Tunbridge Wells.
I had a cappuccino at The Opera House, a Wetherspoons pub, and some tasty soup. They brought out the soup with two slices of bread and butter plus a knife to spread the butter. However, they also supplied, I kid you not, a fork to eat the soup, so I asked one of the staff to fetch me a spoon! If it was a usual visit I would have marked them down for that.
I am now on the last two chapters of the Super symmetry book, with my mind boggling over twister space and gravity. Once done I can then move on to the Lisa Randall book which had arrived. My second series of The Big Bang Theory has also arrived.
Related to this big bang conundrum, we have just watched a BBC 4 Horizon programme on black holes and the strange entity that resides in the middle of the black hole known as the singularity, and how the laws of physics tend to break down at the singularity. Relativity is superb for describing how the universe operates on the large scale until you get down to the extreme compactness of a black hole, where quantum mechanical effects take over, and yet quantum gravity as such, is something we do not know much about. We have to find a way of unifying gravity with the other forces of nature, and that is where these books on string theory and supersymmetry might hold the clue.
Little Jasper was very ill earlier in the week and cousin had the vet out again, so that is more expense he had to incur. Both cats are at the age where they will get poorly more frequently.
I have no plans for doing a Brillo in March and might have one towards the end of April, which is also the same month for the next World Book night. I enjoyed the one in Brighton last year, and would like to do so again this year. Meanwhile, it looks definite that brother will be coming down for St. Patrick's night , which coincidentally, is the day before Mothering Sunday.
I had a cappuccino at The Opera House, a Wetherspoons pub, and some tasty soup. They brought out the soup with two slices of bread and butter plus a knife to spread the butter. However, they also supplied, I kid you not, a fork to eat the soup, so I asked one of the staff to fetch me a spoon! If it was a usual visit I would have marked them down for that.
I am now on the last two chapters of the Super symmetry book, with my mind boggling over twister space and gravity. Once done I can then move on to the Lisa Randall book which had arrived. My second series of The Big Bang Theory has also arrived.
Related to this big bang conundrum, we have just watched a BBC 4 Horizon programme on black holes and the strange entity that resides in the middle of the black hole known as the singularity, and how the laws of physics tend to break down at the singularity. Relativity is superb for describing how the universe operates on the large scale until you get down to the extreme compactness of a black hole, where quantum mechanical effects take over, and yet quantum gravity as such, is something we do not know much about. We have to find a way of unifying gravity with the other forces of nature, and that is where these books on string theory and supersymmetry might hold the clue.
Little Jasper was very ill earlier in the week and cousin had the vet out again, so that is more expense he had to incur. Both cats are at the age where they will get poorly more frequently.
I have no plans for doing a Brillo in March and might have one towards the end of April, which is also the same month for the next World Book night. I enjoyed the one in Brighton last year, and would like to do so again this year. Meanwhile, it looks definite that brother will be coming down for St. Patrick's night , which coincidentally, is the day before Mothering Sunday.
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