wigton physics

Dr Helen Czerski is doing a series on tmeperature on BBC4 at the moment. I enjoyed the first programme. The link will be valid for a month o...

I hadn't come across Joseph Black before I stood in front of his portrait, but I've been teaching his ideas for years. It turn...

Ah! The joy of going up High Pike again in the company of a smart phone owner. When first spotted the Airbus was at 31000 feet and over Ul...

The wind was blowing across the hole in the gate post on the way up Cross Fell. It was oscillating between a low note that we thought w...

I have been working through Leonard Susskind's book Qunatum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. I have decided that I like Dirac notati...

I met Lord Kelvin in Edinburgh. I was surprised to find later that he was yet another Cambridge graduate! I knew about his work on the ...

I was shown this wonderful phone case by Will. It's a Penrose Tiling. I confess to having never heard of them but here's the expla...