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Gravitational Waves
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 11, 2016 So it seems that Einstein was right. Did you doubt him? Today it has been announced that for the first time ‘gravitational waves’ have been detected. Einstein predicted their existence in his theory of General Relativity. But, he didn’t think that we would ever be able to […]
Cold Tea
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 5, 2016 Latent Heat of Fusion must be one of the most boring topics in physics. They throw in words like ‘enthalpy’ and discuss ‘total energy’ and ‘pressure-volume systems’ and wonder why the class has fallen asleep. I was fortunate. I had a magnificent physics teacher. He would […]
May the Force Be With You
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 31, 2016 As storm troopers march on, heralding the biggest ever Hollywood box office success, we should perhaps ask ourselves what is ‘force’. There are actually only four known forces in the universe. Gravitation is a force. This is a force that exists between any two objects of mass. […]
Fantastic Voyage
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 29, 2016 Do you remember the movie? Raquel Welch was in it, if that helps. She and four men were ‘miniaturized’ and injected inside a human body to carry out a few ‘repairs’. Fanciful stuff indeed. I mean; how could you miniaturize four guys let alone Raquel, and would […]
Homeward Bound
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 26, 2016 So the plan is LHR-IAD-ROC 24th of January on United. I have a good friend Rose Bompardre who is a flight attendant for UA. Her comment was “Yep that’s not happening.” Another good friend and mentor of mine, John Stratakos, keeps sending me helpful tidbits of […]
Thomas Hardy
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 16, 2016 Last Tuesday I had the serendipitous fortune to visit Thomas Hardy’s birth place in Higher Bockhampton near the town of Dorchester in Dorset County, England. I’d recently seen the film ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’. Here is a poet and author whose writings elucidate life in […]
Life & Times
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 15, 2016 All life has a concept of time. Most humans will glance at a watch or clock several times a day to‘re-calibrate’ our internal clock. Dogs, they say, use the strength to a scent to determine time. I am not sure how they know that. Animals and plant […]
The Age of Innocence
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 7, 2016 I got into engineering management at the age of 29. The first thing I did was to make the designs that I had put into production, obsolete. Hide the evidence – cover my tracks, no one could question the robustness of my designs, all that remained were […]
2016
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 5, 2015…err..2016 So how many times I wonder, am I going to write the year as 2015. How many times will I get frustrated with some on-line form that I fill in, as all the data is wiped out because I typed in the incorrect date at the […]
That Sick Feeling
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 4, 2016 There is nothing more that makes me sick to my stomach than when I get an e-mail, or one of my employees tell me, that one of our amplifiers has failed in the field. You may think I jest, but I do not. A feeling of […]