The inter-web is not as old as you think
I just read an article online which stated the internet has been around for 30 years, and for many much shorter. This got me thinking. Thirty years! I don’t think its been around that long. I’m 41 and can remember playing the first video game “Pong” in black and white on a TV with a [...]
It seems highly significant that up until this point in time, physics has failed to adequately define and explain both mass and gravity. There are many descriptions, but they remain descriptions rather than explanations. There is something unsatisfactorily slippery and vague about the accepted definitions, even though our understanding and experience of the phenomena in [...]
Continue reading …Not long ago leisure was held in greater esteem than work. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, De Tocqueville and more recently Barry Jones all saw work as a necessary toil but something to be avoided, it was leisure not work that lead to great insights, true understanding and wisdom. From the quiet contemplation of one’s surrounding, the [...]
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“The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car. We shall use up tires, wear out [...]
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When we think of a galaxy, we think of our own Milky Way or perhaps Andromeda; a majestic spiral containing hundreds of billions of stars. Or maybe we think of an irregular galaxy, not so majestic-looking, but still made of regular stuff, like stars, planets… people. But new research shows that there are galaxies out [...]
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