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Science and God
Peter Haycock
May 12, 20214 min read
What is creation?
We create things all the time: a meal, a painting, a tidy environment at home, or even a mess! We are always doing something which...
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Peter Haycock
Apr 24, 20217 min read
Do scientists do science?
This might seem a strange question: surely that's what scientists are paid to do. However, it has become a rather more controversial...
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Peter Haycock
Feb 21, 20214 min read
What has Einstein ever done for me?
It's easy to think that science is very remote from us, but in today's western society we're surrounded by its consequences and rely...
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Peter Haycock
Jan 7, 20214 min read
Are you probably here?
You are here - or at least there. I know that, because you're reading this. However, many, if not most scientists have a bit of a...
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Peter Haycock
Nov 11, 20204 min read
The problem of time
OK, so we all have the same problem with time: sometimes there just isn't enough of it when we have a lot to get done and at others it...
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Peter Haycock
Aug 21, 20203 min read
Memories of the Universe
I've been asked to comment on an article which states that all memory of what happened before the Big Bang was erased by the brief period...
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Peter Haycock
Jul 25, 20202 min read
There's more
Comet NEOWISE I've quite got into astrophotography. We live in an area that is much darker at night than where we previously lived in...
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Peter Haycock
Jul 18, 20202 min read
At last!
I've seen it! I've seen it! I've seen it! Yes! Yes! Yes!! 1.30 am, look north, draw a mental line from Capella to the Plough, reach out...
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Peter Haycock
Jun 24, 20204 min read
Is physics right?
Someone sent me a quote recently by JBS Haldane in his 1928 book Possible Worlds: "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only...
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Peter Haycock
Jun 7, 20202 min read
Is God three or one?
As we reach Trinity Sunday, the mainstream churches consider the nature of the One God as three persons: the Father, his Son, called...
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Peter Haycock
May 23, 20202 min read
Proving evolution?
In the field of mathematics rigorous proofs abound. There are various formal proofs of 1+1 =2, ranging from a few lines, to several...
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Peter Haycock
Apr 22, 20203 min read
Quantum mechanics, relativity and all that!
What does modern physics actually tell us about why we are here? Well, an awful lot actually. As a physicist I am proud of the...
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Peter Haycock
Apr 3, 20202 min read
The Universe that we don't know
The more we learn about the universe, the weirder it seems to be, but also the more we discover that we don't know. Science is amazing...
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