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Relative
I’m thinking about time. A subject about which I am very dubious. I’m not sure I really believe in it. But earthly time, as measured in hours and days and weeks, does have its practical impacts. I now have a … Continue reading
Posted in Britain now & then, Thinking, or ranting, or both
Tagged black holes, coffee spoons, Jodrell Bank, outer space, radio telescope, tea, teaspoons, Time, TS Eliot
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Listen…
There’s something mind-bogglingly awesome on your television. It’s in between the channels – no picture, just sound. A noise. And not just any noise. One hundredth of the fizz-crackle-hiss-buzz sound your blind grey screen’s emitting is something goose-bump-inducingly extraordinary. Ineffable. … Continue reading