wigton physics
Monday, 31 October 2022
Arrow of Time in Wigton churchyard
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For the first time ever I went into the secret garden behind the church. It turns out that there are some memorials on the outside of the ...
Sunday, 30 October 2022
An interesting wordsearch
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This was in the Daily Express. I was very pleased. I'd never heard of Svedbergs . It is a non-metric way of measuring the size of part...
Saturday, 29 October 2022
Less evidence of desert sands in Wigton
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After finding lots of evidence of desert-blown sands in stone of a similar age in Ardrossan, I had a look at the sandstone blocks in Wigton...
Friday, 28 October 2022
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This amazing sundial is in the gardens at RHS Rosemoor. The curved lines are to cope with the different height of the sun in the sky at diff...
Thursday, 27 October 2022
How long does it take for the disc of the Sun to disappear?
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I was stood on the beach at Croyde hoping to see the Green Flash at sunset. It occurred to me to time how long it took from the bottom of ...
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
New style of electricity pylon
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We spotted the new-style electricity pylons from the M5 near Bridgwater. It turns out that the change has been made to make them less of a...
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Partial eclipse
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I set up my telescope in Wigton to project the partial eclipse at about 10.15am. It was even more impressive in Penrith an hour later. Obvi...
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