It is a beautiful clear night, perfect for seeing the stars. During my run i went along the road out of town, and i saw LOADS of stars as soon as i got out of the street lights. Unfortunately it was too dark to see the pavement, so i had to turn back. But just [...]

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It is a well known fact that i am all kinds of geeky. I enjoy programming, i have a slightly suspicious interest in busses and trains, and i have recently become very interested in cosmology, quantum physics, parallel universes, string theory and a ten-dimensional universe! Well i think i have just discovered another geeky interest: [...]

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If you are in South UK today and if you read this before the Sun rises, look out of your window to the South-East, just above the trees, and you might see Mercury.
I noticed yesterday morning what i thought was a very bright star. It was just before Sunrise, the sky was already quite light, [...]

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I am currently reading Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, and absolutely loving it! So fascinating, and so well explained. Who would have imagined that the physical laws of the universe become simpler and fit together better in higher dimensions?! Just getting on to superstring theory, and actually understanding it!!
I have just found a wonderful video that [...]

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Is there a scientific law which states that clocks are more likely to stop when you’re away on holiday than when you’re at home to notice them stop?
The last two times we have come home from a trip away, one of our clocks has been found to have run out of battery and stopped. They [...]

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I thought i would upload holiday photos tonight … but now the time comes i just don’t feel like it. So i’ll save it for another evening, or possibly the weekend. There’s no hurry.
Instead i find myself wanting to record that i am currently reading The Whole Shebang - A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris, [...]

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