Inspiring stuff…

Jewish holidays are like buses – you wait a year, then three of them come along at once! Thankfully, they’ve all passed now, so I have time to pick up the blog again. I’ve just returned from Manchester, where I presented Einstein’s Legacy to the kids at King David High School, and later at their…

Tonight I’m going to party like it’s 5769

Happy new year to all my Jewish friends out there! On Tuesday and Wednesday we celebrated Rosh Ha’Shanna, and welcomed in the Hebrew Summer of Love, yes folks, it’s 5769. If you’re wondering why that number sounds familiar, it’s because it’s been in the news recently: proponents of “Intelligent Design,” including the Republican Vice Presidential…

Bang – A Short Story

With all the media excitement surrounding the LHC, I thought it would be interesting to have a different take on the subject. “Anything?” “No, not yet.” It was 3am. They had been up all night, and it hadn’t happened yet. But they would be ready when it did. Thirty-five hours a day, the telescope orbited,…

First Post

I have studied the laws of physics for most of my life, pushing back the boundaries of knowledge and striving to understand how the Universe works. In the process, I have discovered a vast superbubble within our Galaxy, found the signal from the Galactic Halo and joined up several different ideas relating to Galactic evolution.…