A.J

The heating went on this morning.....as living out it the sticks it's been very noticable how chilly the last couple of nights have been

Not too bad today...Some earlier showers but now nice & sunny and warm (out of the breeze)

Not at this time...we're keeping the regional threads as there own seperate entities as they're a permanant fixture of the forums......Hopefully over the next few weeks the place should start to liven up as winter approaches

Yeah...the clue was in his post....lol.....I don't remember April 2012 to be honest......probably explains why April 2008 event sticks in my mind!

It was 2008 I think, just around Easter...got a few inches out of that one

yes it would be nice to see a 'thorm' or two........a repeat of sept 23 2010 would go down a treat!!

not a bad day at all in these parts, and looks like a lovely Saturday

no need to......we have it already for a lot of posters, it's called the "Model Output Discussion"...lol

November 2005 mate...I was snowbound just outside Falmouth during the famous Cornwall blizzard. I was stuck for several hours on Bodmin in the pitch black before the A30 could be reopened...horrendous, yet fun at the same time

Where has everyone gone?....It's awfully quiet in here, so c'mon, don't be shy, post away and have your say!..........SNOW IS ON IT'S WAY!! (Disclaimer......it is on it's way, just not for a few months...lol) Anyhoos, after a chilly start, it's been a pleasant day with a light breeze and fairly mild with patchy cirrus....High cloud is building now heralding the approach of patchy rain and potentially strong winds overnight and into tomorrow. Hopefully though things will brighten up as the day progresses

Falmouth Sunny?.....that's a good one! lol

yep, managed to get a couple of blurry pics.. A beautiful day today, a bit of a chilly breeze at times, but nice none the less, and it looks like temps will continue to rise a few more degrees through the weekend

yep, had the same issues...the forum board looked like a throw back to the basic html style layouts from the 1990's!...a quick clearance of browser (firefox) cache and a reboot has done the trick

It was a stunning day yesterday with temps in mid 70's.....looks like it'll be a lot cooler and cloudier though today as an old frontal system is encroaching from the NW, already overcast here, maybe a spot or two of drizzle this morning, but then as the old frontal system slides away to the SE things should brighten up towards the evening as HP builds from the west, heralding the start of several days of fine, warm at times weather

yes, it does feel chilly in the breeze, but it's warming up now, some nice sunny spells developing..chance of the odd heavy shower this afternoon

No, there will always be a finite solution, no matter how many times you divide....the only way you would get to zero is to divide zero by itself, and using your halving equation, you'd never get to that scenario to save any possible confusion is that if you have an equation, say for example a simple equation that shows the following solution....if A & B are finite numbers then "A / B = ∞"....then the equation is flawed ...I think?

I should've have pointed out that what I meant was if the solution to the equation is an infinity then the equation is flawed. In your scenario Mike, yes the division can be carried on an infinite number of times, but it will always give you a finite answer

I don't disagree with you there, no matter what theory is 'en vogue' there will always be someone who will shout out "so, theory-x is correct, so now we need a theory to explain why theory-x is correct"......and so on...but at least by always asking these questions we can expand our knowledge not just on our IMO insignificant speck of a universe on the grander scales of things, but expand our knowledge on the very possibilities of all forms of existence & reality.. The danger as you very correctly pointed out is that some theories, maybe even theories currently lauded might well be red herrings and dead ends, again I presume that only by exploring these theories will we find out.....and I agree with your point about 'unfashionable' physics in so much as the modern explosion of theoretical physics rocks the 'status-quo' of the conformists and some of the up and coming physicists are labelled as too radical & as heretics!

My understanding is that your highlighted quote is not strictly true....dark energy wasn't invented as such, rather it was re-discovered, as what had been dubbed 'dark energy' is almost certainly nothing more than Einstein's 'Cosmological Constant' which Einstein added to his original theory of relativity to try and support a static universe, however in modern physics, more explicitly the Standard Model , the mathematics have shown the cosmological constant in Einstein's equations could be physically represented in our universe as the energy density of the universe, ie a CC of 0 means a flat universe, a slightly positive CC will result in an accelerating expansion of the universe, a CC which is not infact constant but grows would result in an exponential expansion of the using culminating in a 'Big Rip' scenario, although this scenario has been widely discounted now, and a negative CC would result in a 'closed universe' scenario, culminating in a 'Big Crunch' scenario. Observations back in 1998 inferred that the CC was slightly positive just seen FFO at the bottom of the thread, if memory serves me correctly (forgive me if I'm wrong) he has some serious knowledge of the mathematics in question and hopefully can shed some more light on this

but just to throw a spanner in the works, physicists hate the word 'infinite' or 'infinity' due to the fact that as their theories are written in mathematics, then an infinity simply means that their equations are flawed, therefore their theories are incorrect!......Sorry to keep banging on about M/String theory, but with this wonderfully elegant theory, the infinities disappear, and indeed it marries the theories of the large (Relativity) with the small (Quantum Theory) something that the standard model fails to do

I'll watch in on i-player later on, if it's on....but I agree with QS, it sounds like it's old hat, not fitting in with current theoretical physics...M-theory and it's subset's String-theory & Brane-World cosmology still rules the roost for me..i.e infers dark matter is in fact the gravitational tug of ordinary matter in a parallel universe separated from our 3D universe by extra dimensions, and dark energy (cosmological constant) is the 'bounce force' pushing our 3-brane away from our 'sister' 3-brane and the force attracting our 3-brane to our 'sister' 3-brane depending on how one views it......sorry if I'm going off topic, but at least M-theory holds the possibilities of detecting the presence of parallel universes (by measuring the force of gravity on the minute scale...i.e does the inverse square law hold true at the microscopic level?)

probably because if you get stung, it hurts like buggery......I don't care if a wasp wears see-through langerie and is handing out £50 notes, if it comes near me it get's swatted or I break the land speed record trying to get away from it!!

Why are there no wasps?.....well, on the grapevine, I heard a rumour that due to public sector cuts, the workers voted to go on a 3 day week and are now on strike, (well, I thought it was mildly amusing...lol)

A poor day today, windy with occasional rain, and chilly....still, the good news is that all the model output is firming up on a decent length spell of settled warm weather from the weekend onwards

The storm near Stourbridge will slide someway to your south, but another pulse storm has fired near Bridgnorth, which will slide towards Birmingham within the hour...It might die before reaching you, but it's posssible other single-cell storms could fire nearer you before that time Here in Penkridge, another clump of storms is closing in from the west (about 15-20 miles away) and looks quite an organized little band