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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me if you'd like to use any of the poems. Email: geoverse@hotmail.co.ukThanks:
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: Reality
James Webb’s telescope
The universe has just got much, much larger… Continue reading
Now and then
The past is just a pile of old ‘now’s . . . Continue reading
Putting a name to it
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Aether, Atoms, Big Bang, Caloric, Canals, Crystal spheres, Dark energy, Dark matter, Epicycles, Gravity, Humours, Impetus, Inertia, Mars, Mass, Names, Phlogiston, Reality, Terra australis, Vis viva, Vulcan
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What time is it?
Am I temporally indeterminate? Continue reading
Give it time
It’s what life needs. Continue reading
I’m history, probably
But how can I know? Continue reading
Living in the past
Reality, filtered . . . Continue reading
Noddle models
Brains evolved (and survived) by making mental models, not by understanding reality – whatever that is. Continue reading
Funny
Three ways of being “funny” . . . Continue reading
Persistence of identity
Thanks, evolution! Continue reading
Causes
It’s good to know what you don’t know Continue reading
First impressions
Things are seldom what they seem . . . Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Astronomy, Diseases, Einstein (Albert), Matter, Physics, Plate tectonics, Reality, Relativity, Time, Witchcraft
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What’s new?
Granddad’s axe, the Cutty Sark and me Continue reading
I wonder
A celestial put-down Continue reading
Ignorance is bliss
Christopher Robin to the rescue Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Ignorance, Life, Mystery, Reality, Thinking, Winnie-the-Pooh, Wonder
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Earth to Mars. . .
Facing up to the Red Planet Continue reading
Brain strain
Its best isn’t good enough Continue reading
Round and round
All motion is relative Continue reading
No time like the present
Now, then… Continue reading
Rainbow’s end
Don’t tell Noah… Continue reading
Model makers
Just a thought… Continue reading
Reflections
A new you? Continue reading
Edges
Some questions are better not asked Continue reading
In theory
A Theory of Everything isn’t everything… Continue reading
Confusion
Beyond Descartes Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Brain, Descartes (René), Dreams, Reality, Senses, Thinking
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