Homeopathy claims to treat illness with dilute solutions of molecules, very dilute solutions of molecules. A standard dilution is to take a solution of a plant extract and then dilute by a factor of 100, 30 times in succession. This dilutes by a factor of 10030. This is seriously dilute. Consider 1cm3 of a 1% solution […]
Read more
Extraordinary levels of drive. This kept both of them at the top of their respective professions for decades. I watched ‘The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse‘ on BBC4 last night. Monkhouse was a driven complex man who worked very hard to stay at the top of comedy/light-entertainment from the late 1940s almost until his death […]
Read more
For the last post I looked up Adam Riess’s website – he shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for co-discovering the remarkable fact that the rate of expansion of the universe is actually increasing. From that I followed a link to a page with a scan of the page in his logbook where he did […]
Read more
Every year our final-year MPhys students give short talks on what they did during their Research Years. The Research Year is around 11 months doing real leading edge research. All our MPhys students do this after 2½ taught years. After the Research Year they come back for a final ½ taught year, then graduate. This year […]
Read more
Comment