A personal note
No maths today!
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- Retired in 2000 after a career within the tourism world as a social psychologist.
- After being within UK FE and academe for many years, I worked in fifteen countries. That was mainly advising on tourism development and marketing. More academe transpired.
- In the early 90s, I served various short term projects totalling 14 months as a volunteer with BESO. See Aims here.
- Fascinated at school by a compass point being turned by a nearby low voltage electric wire, I went on to a more than a passing interest in technical astronomy and astrophysics.
- Family life and a busy career were more important than such a time-consuming interest which took off on retirement.
- Moved to Ross-on-Wye in 2004. My late wife and I were members of its U3A.
- Attended an Astrophysics Group in Malvern here in 2018.
- The talk is an opportunity to stand in front of people again after 19 years absence from such form of meeting.
Most of the graft has been done for you.
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- My only "qualification" even remotely relevant here is a Boy Scout Astronomy badge.
- During the last few years, I have attended several events run by The New Scientist. They included an all-day Relativity conference and another on Artificial Intelligence.
- I have plenty of science etc books including several by Prof Brian Cox. They prompted me to attend one of his mass lecture sessions attended by 12K people. Never again!
- I have also attended lectures and talk by various speakers and lecturers I aim to present what I know and what I have found out, in the best way possible. I know, for example, that atoms these days have component parts but I am not fluent with them.
- In a talk of this nature, we have no need for such information.
- It's intended to be a discussion where you the participants comment and raise questions when you feel like it rather than keeping to an end-session.
- Readers are invited to contact the author on any topic. here
- Academics are reputed to recycle other people's work.
- Enjoy my recycling. Here goes!