Was that really you posting Pete, or one of your infinite copies?
I sometimes wonder which universe you live in! 😍
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IMO, you are either a top Physicist, or You are NOT!
Imagine my excitement in going up to London tomorrow! A Physicist who is tired of London is tired of Life, IMO.
I plan on examining the whole Apollo Moon Mission by modern standards!
Will get back to you on conclusions.
My personal opinion is we must set up Telescopes on The Moon.
https://aeon.co/essays/only-lunar-t...niverse?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
Am unsure if I should attend the Lecture about Quantum Mechanics on Nov. 1st., also in Kensington at The Science Museum...
Is it going to tell me anything new for the effort? I really don't know? 🙄
As we used to say in the Physics lab, "Heisenberg probably Rules OK".
Imagine my excitement in going up to London tomorrow! A Physicist who is tired of London is tired of Life, IMO.
I plan on examining the whole Apollo Moon Mission by modern standards!
Will get back to you on conclusions.
My personal opinion is we must set up Telescopes on The Moon.
https://aeon.co/essays/only-lunar-t...niverse?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
Am unsure if I should attend the Lecture about Quantum Mechanics on Nov. 1st., also in Kensington at The Science Museum...
Is it going to tell me anything new for the effort? I really don't know? 🙄
As we used to say in the Physics lab, "Heisenberg probably Rules OK".
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I read that Jim Al-Khalili has written a science fiction novel entitled Sunfall, set in the year 2041, with the intention of painting a picture of what really could be.
A lecture about quantum physics and science fiction, to be exact. Perhaps this audio episode of Future Curious will give us both a taster:
https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/future-curious/science-fiction-jim-al-khalili/
A lecture about quantum physics and science fiction, to be exact. Perhaps this audio episode of Future Curious will give us both a taster:
https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/future-curious/science-fiction-jim-al-khalili/
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Apollo Remastered sounds like it will be a great experience, enjoy! 😎
"For almost 50 years, the original flight film from the Apollo missions has remained hermetically sealed in a frozen vault in Houston, Texas. Now scanned and digitally remastered, we can view these historic moments as never before."
I read that this exhibition of 50 of the highest quality Apollo photographs ever exhibited will be coming to Glasgow on November 24th.
Just got back from London. I am shattered by the noise and people and traffic!
The Exhibition was stunning... Astronauts often said that seeing the Earth from Space was like a Religeous experience.
Seeing how dark and empty and lifeless The Moon is also changes how you see things. We are so tiny and Space is SO BIG!
A must see if you get the chance. My snaps doesn't do justice to the quality of the pictures. It is like being there! 🙂
The Exhibition was stunning... Astronauts often said that seeing the Earth from Space was like a Religeous experience.
Seeing how dark and empty and lifeless The Moon is also changes how you see things. We are so tiny and Space is SO BIG!
A must see if you get the chance. My snaps doesn't do justice to the quality of the pictures. It is like being there! 🙂
Thanks for the preview, Steve.
I'm glad you explained the "bright blob", otherwise you might have given ammunition to the ufologists! 👽
I'm glad you explained the "bright blob", otherwise you might have given ammunition to the ufologists! 👽
I saw this a year ago - "and that doesn't even include the lens." Of course, this camera they shown being made uses a modern semiconductor image sensor, and the images they showed were taken with older film models, but whatever.
From the age of 10 to 65 London was a place I felt at home in. I know nearly every street and place in the town. It holds treasures from history and intellectual endeavor beyond price. The National Gallery, the Science Museum, some of the World's finest Colleges. After 3 years away with the Pandemic, I was overwhelmed by visiting it. The whole place is insane at some level: 15M people crammed together, AFAIK.
I much prefer Portsmouth, which has more quietness, where I can think and wonder.
Jokes aside, Science and Technology and hard work is all that is holding our World together. Having seen this Exhibition, I have realised that the only place where we can comfortably live is on our small blue dot. We really have to learn to look after and care about our living planet. It is the only one we have found so far!
That was what I learned. There, I have explained it. That and the incredible bravery of the Apollo astronauts in risking their lives to bring us this realsation.
FWIW, I always wanted a Hasselblad, mounted on a tripod, of course.
I much prefer Portsmouth, which has more quietness, where I can think and wonder.
Jokes aside, Science and Technology and hard work is all that is holding our World together. Having seen this Exhibition, I have realised that the only place where we can comfortably live is on our small blue dot. We really have to learn to look after and care about our living planet. It is the only one we have found so far!
That was what I learned. There, I have explained it. That and the incredible bravery of the Apollo astronauts in risking their lives to bring us this realsation.
FWIW, I always wanted a Hasselblad, mounted on a tripod, of course.
It is no coincidence that I was the official Bedford College Magazine Photographer in 1973. Our Motto was "Pictures or it didn't Happen!"
I couldn't afford a 70mm. Roll film Hasselblad. Apparently not much worse than current digital media. I had to make do with mere 35mm Pentax Spotmatic SP-II. An entirely manual camera. But an excellent device which I could operate in near-dark by feel and instinct and experience.
Here's Astronaut Walter Schirra getting his friends up to speed on a Camera suitable for the Moon Landings:
https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/hasselblad-in-space/
Any competent Mathematician is unsurprised that no less that 12 Hasselblad Cameras are still lying discarded on the Moon by Apollo 11-17. Why, because it was cheaper to dump them there than fly them back to Earth.
Cost of fuel and all that. No, I don't know where Apollo 13's cameras ended up.
Of course, I am for more interested in Inner Space than Outer Space.
Here the second generation Quark solution which I followed in 1974:
Shook up our view of the Universe. Very strange place. 🙁
I couldn't afford a 70mm. Roll film Hasselblad. Apparently not much worse than current digital media. I had to make do with mere 35mm Pentax Spotmatic SP-II. An entirely manual camera. But an excellent device which I could operate in near-dark by feel and instinct and experience.
Here's Astronaut Walter Schirra getting his friends up to speed on a Camera suitable for the Moon Landings:
https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/hasselblad-in-space/
Any competent Mathematician is unsurprised that no less that 12 Hasselblad Cameras are still lying discarded on the Moon by Apollo 11-17. Why, because it was cheaper to dump them there than fly them back to Earth.
Cost of fuel and all that. No, I don't know where Apollo 13's cameras ended up.
Of course, I am for more interested in Inner Space than Outer Space.
Here the second generation Quark solution which I followed in 1974:
Shook up our view of the Universe. Very strange place. 🙁
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Britannica tells me that the discovery of the J/psi particle provided support for the theory that there existed a fourth quark, called the charmed quark, in addition to those predicted by early quark models (i.e., the up, down, and strange quarks).
The J/psi particle is a type of meson consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark. Its mass is about 3.5 times that of a proton.
Learning all the time! 🤓
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