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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at email.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Physics
A short Planck
If there’s anything shorter, we wouldn’t be able to measure it. Continue reading
It’s a granular world
But it might help explain a real-life problem . . . Continue reading
Much ado about nothing
A vacuous poem Continue reading
The Owl, the Pussy-cat and the telescope
An astronomical nursery rhyme Continue reading
First impressions
Things are seldom what they seem . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Diseases, Einstein (Albert), Matter, Physics, Plate tectonics, Reality, Relativity, Time, Witchcraft
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Professor Peter’s particle
A massive mystery at CERN Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, Gravity, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Mass, Physics, Science
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The nick of time
Blink, and you’ve missed it Continue reading
The Second Law and me
Down with entropy! Continue reading
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Tagged Entropy, Personal, Physics, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics
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A lousy trick
Quantum woodlice Continue reading
Perhaps
They seek him here, they seek him there… Continue reading
I once saw Einstein on a train
Relatively easy? Continue reading
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Tagged Einstein (Albert), Energy, Equations, Light, Matter, Physics, Relativity, Universe
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Definitions
If they’re no good, or absent, they tell you something worth knowing Continue reading
Spacetime
Why mathematicians are grateful to Einstein Continue reading
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Tagged Einstein (Albert), Equations, Gravity, Mass, Newton (Isaac), Physics, Spacetime
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Coriolis
Why winds and rockets seem to change direction Continue reading
Rainbow’s end
Don’t tell Noah… Continue reading
Science and religion
It’s a mystery Continue reading
The electron
An identity crisis revealed Continue reading
In theory
A Theory of Everything isn’t everything… Continue reading
The mechanics of time
Time marches on – but what keeps it going? Continue reading
g
A matter of some gravity Continue reading
Spring into action
Try this at home Continue reading
Centrifugal false
A myth is slain Continue reading
The middle way
A creative tension Continue reading
Wavicles
Waves, particles, or what? Continue reading
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Tagged Electrons, Equations, Photons, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Schrödinger
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Schrödinger’s dog
Canine revenge Continue reading
Schrödinger’s cat
Cat-in-a-box Continue reading
Cosmic conundrum
Shedding light on a problem Continue reading
Newton’s Fourth Law
Good advice Continue reading