Chasing the Sun 35

Getting to the end of this 680 page podcast looking in depth at sun sets.

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Fossils of Dark Matter

I suppose that I had known about "channeling" tracks caused by radiation, I found this irritating as this was this articles big reveal and revelation. The idea is that dark matter will leave faint nano tracks that can't be detected by today's detectors seams conjecture only, I am afraid. It is unclear how nanotechnology will come to the aid of discovering nano tracks and it wasn't explained how helium ion beam work or Xrays will uncover these. A bit of a disappointing New Scientist article. But my reading is improving!

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Toy Box Harvest

A multi-meter pen and sticking your mobile on a toddlers 3 wheel scooter are some of the internet low hanging fruit to pick. There is method to Technology strategy and although I have read Clausewitz and the theory of strategic center of mass it is another thing trying to explain thinking.

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BizarreCommunity Dinner

I am deeply troubled by what our kids (in New South Wales) are told about how they are assessed for their final year at school. I looks as if I am alone on this one. As I read other sources I have come up with a macabre tale of a community dinner where the pet dog, cat and cockatoo (common Australian bird) meet a twight zone style end.

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Chasing the Sun 34

This is really a stunning chapter on Science Fiction. The Roman empire science fiction seems to up end alot of fixed ideas about what was accepted. The idea of Winston Churchill's science fiction is just gob smacking. One has to admit that in terms of putting forward ideas out side the confines of Science is really nothing short of amazing.

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Brexit

Perhaps the best article I have ever podcasted. Very entertaining and a clever use of political terms to colour geology. Hopefully my reading has improved over these months of rehab.

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New Scientist - Periodic Table Rage

I found some interesting information, like who backs the correct long form periodic table. However, has this person never heard of quantum mechanics and electron affinity. I find the classical electron whizzing around it its shells actually a bit insulting and offensive. I think not to get the idea that they are so out of date, and then make some cheap remarks about quantum physics as they do when they feel stupid is just arrogant. Honestly, it wouldn't take much to read a book on the topic.

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Chasing the Sun 33

It is actually important to read this as it lays out, taking at face value, quite a number of misconceptions. The key for me is that the ozone (Greek for stench) layer is a distinct layer. It actually brings home the point that people can have genuinely no sense that they don't understand and so never do.

I think there is a lot more about the Sun and climate that he has missed and it includes dark matter. It is really so exciting. But what can you do but be bludgeoned by these self assured definitely not an experts.

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4 Signs of a Quantum Physicsist

1. Some competence in maths - equations of functions
2. Discounts junk ideas - no such thing as a Copenhagen school Quantum Physicists.
3. Literate in the deeper use of models
4. Can visualize their own and others journey of understanding.

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Chat with a fly fisherman

I talk through Incas and the four ways of a Quantum Physicist, but also have a gentle conversation with a fly fisherman. Listening to it I hear the awful noise of me walking... sorry.

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