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Head-on collision on Garratt Lane, Tooting on Friday 24 August 2012
26 August 2012 - 11:53 AM
Physics professors
23 August 2012 - 07:03 AM
Professor Jim Al-Khalili introducing world-renowned physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose, guest speaker at the inaugural Lewis Elton Lecture at the University of Surrey on the 16 February 2012.
Abstract: According to currently standard cosmology, the universe started with a Big Bang, immediately followed by a fleeting moment of exponential expansion, called “inflation”. Following this it settled down to a more sedate expansion, but due to what is called “dark energy," it is currently commencing a second period of exponential expansion that is expected to continue indefinitely. In this talk I describe an alternative idea, which argues that this picture provides merely one aeon of a continual succession of such aeons. The Universe never collapses in this model, but the remote future of each aeon becomes, when infinitely scaled down, the big bang of the next. Collisions between supermassive black holes in the aeon previous to ours would, according to my model, provide disturbances that should be just about observable in the cosmic microwave background of our own aeon. In this talk I shall describe evidence indicating that these disturbances may actually be present, and possibly providing us with some hint of what the aeon prior to ours may actually have been like. The talk will be largely free of equations, depending mostly on pictures, but a brief summary of the equations needed for the theory will be provided at the end.
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Snow on a liquid nitrogen tank in summer
10 August 2012 - 06:38 PM
Here is a recent photograph from my ongoing Campus life series of photographs taken at the University of Surrey. It is of a liquid nitrogen storage tank in the Advanced Technology Institute, with pure white ice forming on the pipes - in August!
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An accident on Mitcham Lane, Streatham
29 July 2012 - 11:39 AM
A traffic jam on the A3 (photos)
16 July 2012 - 11:56 PM
The Race into Space (1971 collectors cards)
25 May 2012 - 05:36 PM
The complete 1971 set of 'the Race into Space' collectors cards in the original album
My mum was clearing out her attic recently so I got to trawl through a load of stuff I’ve kept from childhood. I was delighted to come across this album, and to find that all the collectors cards were still in situ - over 40 years later. I still remember making my mum buy loads of Brooke Bond PG Tips tea so I could collect what to the 8 year old me were mesmerising images of our not too distant future…
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Vintage photo of a Concorde taking off / the Lovell Telescope
22 May 2012 - 09:45 PM
Scanning some old photos the other day I came across these two here. The first is from when I went to see the legendary Concorde take off from Heathrow Airport and just caught it with my little Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110 camera, because that's what 13 year old boys did in the 1970s…
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London black cab in a collision on the A3 [photo]
17 May 2012 - 06:57 PM
On my way to work this morning I saw this accident involving a London black cab and a Transit van near Coombe Lane on the A3 in Kingston. Nobody seemed hurt but the cab was pretty spectacularly totalled. The police had shut two lanes causing a massive tailback on the London-bound carriageway of the A3.
So quite early in the day I had my entry for my daily photo journal in the bag.
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In memoriam, Lajos Karoly Kiss 1937 - 2011
24 October 2011 - 07:46 AM
