Wading Through Treacle

Just back from Open University summer school, a week at Sussex University near Brighton doing experiments in quantum mechanics (course SMXR3...

I still don't know anyone who has swine flu, despite the media-epidemic.

I remember all the times I saw old, overweight guys in baggy shorts and bulging tee-shirts shuffling along pavements, at no more than a fast...

Pauli's Exclusion Principle states that no two identical fermions in a given system can ever have the same set of quantum numbers. Here...

I decided to start running again. Last time I used to run just a couple of miles two or three times a week. I surely felt better for it over...

Today was open day at the Calleva Atrebatum archaeological dig, so we turned up to see what was going on. First of all, what's Calleva A...

"Does Germaloid cream work?" This query is the most common reason why people end up here, so let me answer it. Yes, Germaloid crea...

I think that SM358, the Open University's quantum mechanics course, is solid but perhaps slightly conservative (perhaps cut-down and lea...

1. The Variational Method Purpose: to calculate the ground energy state (e.g. of an atom) when we don't know the correct eigenfunction....

1. Hitler was of the view that even after the final victory of the Third Reich, it was desirable that low-level warfare should continue on t...