"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how something works" Terry Pratchett This last week I've led a slower life than the one I'm used to. I'm enjoying my time off from the training and competition of athletics, and instead filling my days with pottering in the garden, do-it-yourselves, reading, family and long walks, because yes I am indeed a thousand years old. But I've found a slower life has led to a faster mind. The inner-dialogue has in fact been inner dial

Why are we here? Why were we here yesterday, why do we hope we're going to be here tomorrow? Why do we wonder why? Why when told the answer as to why we're here, will it not be enough? The answer is that Hydrogen, if left for long enough, will always be philosophically inclined to ponder its own existence, as summarised in my post, "When Hydrogen Wonders': But that's why we're here, not why we're here. I am a big believer that poetry and physics are one and the same but that

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I had a lovely time chatting to Alex Seftel on the EA podcast about how I negotiated the 2020 summer season through the pandemic, how I...

I've never been very good at broadening my horizons when it comes to the shows I watch. Few things unnerve me more than the prospect of...