Weird developments in science No1 - "The Large Padron Collider"

 

A breakthrough in the search for WIMPS (weakly interacting massive peppers) has been recorded at CERN.

Safely Home

 

'Safely Home' giclee print from an original print and collage
by Ray Finch Architect and Artist 1946-2023.

Ray Finch was a friend and colleague. He was a gifted and talented man but best of all chose to be a kind, good and decent human being. In the words of the minister at his funeral " He lived well and died well". Rest in peace with your King Ray.

Reykjavik Reprise

 

Re-worked two photographs taken in Reykjavik a couple of years ago BC (Before Covid) to create the above single image composite. The green Aurora can be seen taking on the blue John Lennon Peace Laser beacon and in my opinion winning hands down! I have to say this auroral display rather puts to shame the faint wisps of it that we saw over Lowestoft one evening in February this year.

Southwold in miniature

 

'3 Beach Huts and a Starfish' - Acrylic on board - George Roberts

'Booming on the Blythe' - Acrylic on board- George Roberts

'The holiday's not over to the ginger cat sings' - Acrylic on board- George Roberts

All by kind permission of Professor and Doctor Roberts Bassingbourn.

Monkey Puzzled

 

For my first post of 2023 I thought I would get a bit philosophical and so I chose this photograph of the sky looking North through one of the Monkey Puzzle trees in our front garden. It was a beautiful clear night when the stars seemed to be everywhere you looked. I wrote this poem in celebration of how magnificent is the cosmos and how insignificant am I.

Monkey Puzzled

There are many philosophical things to find out about.

How did it all begin and what came before?

Is there an all knowing and all seeing being?

Is he a she and is there one, none or more?

There are many disparate things to care and shout about.

The price of sprouts, polar bears and the demise of planet Earth,

And after a terminal breath, is there spiritual life after death?

Do souls exist at all and in perpetuity from the moment of birth?

There are many fabulous things to wonder and spout about.

Multiverses, the equivalence of mass and energy, singularities big and small,

Is the Universe curved or flat or simultaneously both like Schrödinger’s cat?

Is there meaning and purpose for each diverse and unlikely bit of life at all?

There are infinitely many more things to find out about.

In the past, the present and future and why with age increasing, time locally gathers pace?

Why are we here at all, is intelligent life cosmologically common or actually relatively rare?

And at the terminus where will all we have found out go, if we’re ultimately lost from grace?

George Roberts

A Merry Christmas 2022

 

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our Blog Readers from round the World. 

May we wish wish you well and hope that 2023 brings an end to conflict, poverty, hunger, prejudice and suffering wherever it exists.

Barry the Snowman 2022

 Christmas would not be Christmas without our friend Barry the Snowman resident in his garden office. This year Barry has abandoned his usual location and taken up a more prominent position in front of the sitting room window. Nice one mate!