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On Feeders and Dots

January 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I made some notes this morning as I was having my coffee and granola. I’d been thinking about today’s perihelion before I was diverted. The sun, if you see it, is five million kilometres closer than it will be in July though it’s not much closer than it was yesterday or will be tomorrow. So don’t expect it look any bigger.

I looked out my window and this is what I saw this freezing cold morning.
I needed a 400 mm zoom to share the charming goldfinches and solo siskin with you.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: astrophysics, bird watching, brian cox, brian greene, carl sagan, geophysics, john glenn, katherine johnson, manchán magan, pandemic, photos, robin ince, sars-cov-2, yuri gargarin

Gravitational Waves And More

September 3, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There are a few stories in these journals about how technology changes with time (and space). Today, our TV breakfast news was headlined by the story of a collision of two black holes several billion years ago. A redefinition of the concept of a ‘late breaking’ story that we know about because of the sciences. The collision that was detected chirped for less than a tenth of a second on May 21st, 2019. It’s worth noting that mankind only invented the mechanism to record such news recently.

Dark energy? Dark Ages? A Starling sang for me earlier today.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: albert einstein, astrophysics, booklink, brian greene, caltech, charlemagne, geophysics, LIGO, nature, new scientist, photos, virgo

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