Should you ever have the good fortune to meet a person who has travelled into space, what is the first question that you would ask them? Probably the same as what I, and the vast majority of people would feel compelled to ask: what’s it like? Not only the kind of question that must get a … Continue reading
It was little more than eighteen months ago that the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (or CERN) announced the discovery of the Higgs-Boson, the so-called ‘God particle’, and it was only a couple of months ago that Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for first postulating its existence way back in 1964. … Continue reading
Books about astronomy were always my favourite science books when I was a child. Why? Because they always had the best pictures. Whether it was an exploding star, the rings of Saturn, a volcano on Mars or simply the planet Earth viewed from space, the sense of awe and wonder that those beautiful images evoked … Continue reading
