China trip

 Wow - what a trip that was, and what an eye opener! 

Clean, high tech, nice people, transport that's on time, culture, lots of temples.....

It was brilliant.....if you get the chance go!

Off to the Peak District wedding

 Taking Bessy ( our motorhome) off on a trip to the Peak District this weekend to attend a wedding. 

Watch this space.....

Oktoberfest in September

 Great night at Chester races Oktoberfest event - even though it chucked it down. Also wrapped up with Albin's stag do.....

Yodelaetee......

A Sicilian adventure

 Just returned - what a fantastic place - go visit!

Full on Scotland

Just come back from a trip to Edinburgh - busy place. We, me and Richard, did one of these. Brilliant way of finding out about the city. Plus it ends in a pub! 

Also been doing a bit of work - tell me about it, I need a lie down. Some exciting AI work looking at how it can be used to lighted the burden of cyber and safety compliance with standards. Very impressive these tools.

Here's a link to some of the work

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391443879_Document_Retrieval_Augmented_Fine-Tuning_DRAFT_for_safety-critical_software_assessments

Anyway - off to Loch Fyne festival now.....like you do.

 

Non-stop retirement

 It's tough this retirment stuff. 

Done quite a bit of travelling and sorting over the last 3 months. Wales, Glasgow, Wales again. Some bigger trips coming up.....

On things not travelling, we have now bought our 3rd and final (I think) Bob Dylan print - Roy's motel. We now have 3 motel scenes which just remind us of our time in the USA. Plus they are nice to looks at. Thank you Castle Fine Art.

https://www.castlefineart.com/uk/art/bob-dylan/abandoned-motel-eureka

Well we like them ;)

Still keeping up with my own sketching - most recent

 

Wonderful, wonderful,Copenhagen

 Cool trip to Copenhagen this last weekend.

Niels Bohr grave.....a highlight for me!

Not to mention.....

And a bit of......

I think I'm improving

 All of these free hand sketched rther than 'measured' 

Sketches from the North Pole trip

 

North Pole

 Just of on a trip to the North Pole, well close enough to call it that. Going to Svalbard, like you do, for a bit of northern lights viewing. 

Travel was also on the retirement agenda so packing some of that in while I can. Obviously taking my new sets pad with me. Just hope there is enough light to see something or I will be left sketching the night sky.

Maybe pictures as we go.....

Starting to get perspective

 Think I'm improving.....

Off to the North Pole in a few days time - like you do - well Svalbard. So going to try my hand at sketching 'on-the-fly'........ if there is any light that is. :O

Not London Bridge

 2nd attempt - still need to work on perspective.....

Sketching - I like this one.

 OK- gave up on photography for now. Wasn't floating my boat, click,  bin, click, bin.....

So having a go at combining it with sketching. We I am finding very theraputic.  

Here is the first attempt.

Room for improvement - I know ...... need to sort out persectives better, an not rely totally on my 'eye'.

A go at photography then.

 Calm after the storm.....recent visit to Porthmadog.

Retirement activities proposed by Gemini

 Here are some fun retirement projects:

* **Travel:** Explore new places, cultures, and cuisines.

* **Volunteer:** Give back to your community and help others.

* **Learn a new skill:** Take up a new hobby or learn a new language.

* **Start a business:** Turn your passion into a profitable venture.

* **Write a book:** Share your stories and experiences with the world.

* **Take up a sport:** Get active and stay healthy.

* **Spend time with family and friends:** Cherish your loved ones.

* **Relax and enjoy life:** Take some time for yourself to relax and recharge.

Well I can sign up to the last point for a while!

Paradoxically Olbers paradox

 

This is a typical photo of an Egyptian temple representation of the night sky. 

Whats so strange about it?

Given what I have seen in our recent visits to Egyptian temples and their ability to undertake detailed observations and then represent them in fine carvings and story telling, I find it strange in the extreme that the best  they could do with representation of the night sky is effectively a blanket of starfish like stars.

No constellations, no 'brighter' stars, no Moon? It's effectively a night sky completely full of stars. Wherever you look there is a star. Exactly what Olbers paradox is all about - why is the night sky dark - if, in an infinite universe filled with stars, why would you not see a star wherever you looked? Essentially the night sky would then be bright!

Of course we now have an explanation for the night sky being dark - see Wikipedia Olbers paradox, for a start. Short answer is a finite universe and red shifted star light because it is also expanding. Well at least thats what we think at the moment.

So maybe those 👽 weren't so clever after all.....or maybe they know something we don't!

Again, I thought that was going to be it on the Egyptian front, but looking at these night sky depictions has raised another issue.....

Ancient Egyptian quantum experimentation

Following on from the previous post on wave-particle duality in ancient Egypt, what about this one.

 Evidence of a Youngs slit experiment in the Dendera Temple of Hathor. The photo clearly illlustrates both the particle (triangles running down from the slit) and 'waves' (running up from slit and depicted as as ripples in a sea of stars). 

Why is all this physics in the Temple of Hathor? Well clearly she was also a physicist - doing wave-particle duality experiments, being the personification of the Milky Way and the 'Lady of the Stars'.

 

Well this is all food for thought. 

The Temple alone is phenominal and the artwork sublime but the level of language and story depiction is out of this world. Must be.....👽

I've just noticed something else of interest, thought this was going to be my final post on Ancient Egyptian physics, but I think there is something else......

Ancient Egyptian quantum physics

So I've now come across further evidence of Ancient Egyptian quantum physics. 

This is a picture from the rule of Akhenaten - check Wikipediea for his history, pretty bold moves. Anyway on top of moving the Ancient Egyptian capital and mandating the worship of only the Sun god, he also lay the foundations of wave-particle duality. 

[Which is the current explanation of the Youngs double slit experiment - again check Wikipedia for details - where a photon (or any particle for that  matter) also acts as a wave! It's like magic and nobody really knows how it works, even given all the fancy mathematics we have these days.]

Here is the Akhenaten evidence.....

The Sun's rays are now depicted as lines with a hand at the end. The 'particle' triangles have now gone. Clearly the hand is there so that it can represent a 'wave'. 

Hence, (along with previsous post's) it shows evidence of Solar radiation being recorded as both particles and waves..... 👽

This of course calls into doubt the previous neutrino explanation of the triangles. So back to the triangles representing photons me thinks.....more research needed.

Ancient Egyptian Particle Physics continued.

 Ok - feels like I'm heading down an ancient rabbit hole but I've been doing some extensive research (that's over my breakfast coffee) into neutrino hieroglyphs. I've come across this image - courtesy of the Metropolitan Meseum - hope that's OK. 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/549700

Which shows an advance on the 3 neutrino view of the last post! I think this one is a bit later in time from 200BC ish. Clearly there was additional neutrino research undertaken and 5 types are now depicted as rays. 

Check out current particle physics searches for a 4th 'sterile' neutrino type here,

https://natsci.source.colostate.edu/is-there-a-fourth-neutrino-new-results-from-fermilab-say-no/

so, looks like we have a bit more work to do to uncover the other 2! Which will require changes to the 'standard model' - it's those 👽 again ;) 

It must be aliens.....

Ok - still fired up by from our recent trip to Egypt. How did they do all that stuff? The stonework alone is unbelievable. 

However, one thing in particular struck me - the hieroglyph of the Sun. Having spent a large part of my life studying the Sun (both academically and recreationally;) this image jumped out at me more than any of the others. 

Here it is...

So what made me so interested! 

Well, why are the Sun's rays drawn as rows of little triangles in 3 lines? If you ask someone to draw the Sun they will draw the rays as straight lines, not like a load of raindrops! Also why only 3 rays and not, as the emoji illustrates, 🌞 lots?

They are of course representing photons (or as Holly, one of our crew, pointed out, maybe neutrinos). Three rows representing photons (red, green, blue) or neutrinos (electron, muon, tau). Come to think of it I like the neutrino version better, much more elegant.

Anyway, something to think on. Has to be 👽....right?