Current interests: family and friends, astrophotography, shodokan aikido.
Past interests: cooking, home made beer, rock climbing, sailing, Kyokushin karate, technology, computing, mathematics, cosmology and high energy physics.
Just a guy with a curious mind and a love of science who likes looking at things laterally and wondering why alot!
Wed 9 Nov, 2011 10:42 pm -
For those wanting to learn more about refraction and King rates - good reading here: http://canburytech.net/DriftAlign/DriftAlign_3.html
Also useful information on how to align a german... (view)
Wed 9 Nov, 2011 06:01 am - If one is not standing on the equator, one sees stars of a night time move from East to West, effectively rotating about either the North Celestial Pole or the South Celestial Pole.
So if you... (view)
Sun 6 Nov, 2011 09:46 pm - Years later - I add on...
I postulate if a huge energy density - 10 ^ 80 Joules got teleported into our reality somehow, in near point form - say near Planck level dimensions 10 ^ -45 metres... (view)
Sun 6 Nov, 2011 09:36 pm - Wow! I came across this by chance - years later - folk did really well. Qu. 30 was provinces in South Africa, Qu. 10 was toes on a foot and Qu. 19 was 13 is unlucky for some!
Cheers all -... (view)
Mon 18 Apr, 2011 06:10 pm - Can anyone offer a link to website that shows all the rules of mathematical precedence?
Most will give the simplest ones: multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, powers and... (view)
Tue 28 Dec, 2010 02:56 am - Most likely empty space - as the universe is expanding - the regions where we can see farest objects well thi s original matter and energy has probably shifted billions of light years further on by... (view)
Sat 25 Dec, 2010 06:12 am -
If god exists then bet your boots your part of his plan somewhere! I don't have any grasp on what rewards will get handed out down the track :) (view)
Sat 25 Dec, 2010 06:10 am -
Depending which of the 5,000+ faith system's diety you are refering to - the answer may vary. Let's say you are chosing the Christian God - answer is no - God gives us free will as a... (view)
Sat 25 Dec, 2010 06:05 am -
I think its a poor logic construct to apply mortal constraints onto a subject that is off the chart beyond mortal capability. (view)
Sat 25 Dec, 2010 06:03 am -
A being capable of creating all you perceive around you is easily capable of ensuring very intelligent lifeforms exist within it - some of whom reckon this being exists and some of whom... (view)