This week I am covering something that I find truly mind blowing. I'll be honest, I am one of those people that when I start to think about anything to do with the world, I end up sitting their in pure wonder and awe. I am lucky that sometimes I get things, I understand the incredible beauty of something. the other day for example, my cat managed to catch, kill and eat a bird. I know this because it left a bird leg and wing in the living room. 

I was a bit upset at first, I'm a big fan of birds and the thought that my cat had scoffed one was a bit disconcerting, but when I actually stopped and took a look at the wing and the leg of the bird, you can't help but wonder at how clever it all is, it's just incredibly intricate. Which brings me to this weeks subject which has nothing whatsoever to do with birds or flight for that matter. It is though wonderous in the extreme, it is so fantastic that even telling you makes me wonder if it is not just some weird flight of fancy, but here goes, get on this...

today we are going to start were we left off last week, were we were talking about nuclear fusion. Joining hydrogen atoms together to create helium and in doing so, releasing an absolute shed load of energy. ...

then I'm going to mention the rather odd story of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons

there is also a physics joke in there, though you will be excused if you miss it. 

Recreating the sun on earth... well trying to. 

Godzilla, Rutherford, the age of the earth, nuclear reactors and other things

Liverpool's recovery, changing lead into gold, transmutation no less. Goldfinger, thorium, and Chris Hemsworth get a mention, so does Bruce Banner come to think of it.

Pound Rebka and Mossbauer are all featured in this all singing all dancing episode. Enjoy.

The difference between how people think it is and how it really is!

This one is about Cosmology and the story of Halton Arp

now and again I like to do the odd post about people in science. Most of the time we tend to stick with the firm favourites, Einstein, Newton, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, maybe Steven Hawking and so on. These are the people that are the mega stars of the business.

There are  loads of others, many people that most of us have never heard off. A dude I know recently went to a University to study physics, during his application interview he didn't realise that the guy interviewing him was actually a Nobel prize winning physicist. What made it funnier was they guy actually asked him "do you know who I am?" and he replied "no, sorry, I have no idea!" Despite this faux par he still got a place. 

My point is that there are lots of famous physics people who are actually only famous to those in the specific sub field within physics, outside of it, not one has heard of them and this is true of any profession. 

One such person is a guy called Halton Arp who died back in 2013.