One day last week I was listening to Radio Devon. I had just been for a cup of coffee and I heard the end of a story in which an eye witness was describing how a 50 metre long stretch of scaffolding had fallen down, “Just like dominoes, without a sound until it hit the cars and the not much sound.” For a moment I thought maybe it was the scaffolding in Fleet Street. I could ruse down and get some photos. Then the news reader explained it had happened in Exeter, 25 miles up the road. Too far to go to get a shot of a pile of Scaffold poles.
Our scaffolding in Fleet Street is still there, it has been built in 2 sections, the base runs the length of the area where the contractors are working but the top portion covers only a half of this and is being moved along as work progresses.
Talking of work progressing, there was an item in the paper on Monday the said the work on Rock Walk should be finished by the end of April, it wasn’t due to end until June. Oh good the Blue Wall down the middle of the road should go soon. No sorry, there is still much work to be done before that happy event. Walkways and steps to be constructed plus planting of exotic vegetation will have to take place before the crowd that will rival the destruction of the Berlin Wall turn up. The latest date for that is April 2010 which isn’t bad considering what the council said when the work stated in Jan 2008, “Three weeks.”
Here is a picture of some of the structural work going on the cliff face. Now I have a theory, several actually. The first is it is a gun emplacement, the council have heard something they aren’t telling the rest of us and are getting ready for the invasion. An other theory springs to mind, it could be that these sand bags are being used to fill a hole in the rocks before concrete is poured in.
A third theory that I have is that in the fullness of time, as the universe expands and all the hydrogen is used up making more and more suns that there will come a time when there is no more hydrogen left, remember stars are made mostly of hydrogen, that the universe will run out of it’s source of light. When that happens Einstein’s little equation will come apart. Remember E=MC squared. C being the speed of light. But if there is no more light then C will = zero. M times zero squared will equal zero so E, energy will have to equal zero. End of everything, nothing left but emptiness. Don’t worry, it wont happen any day soon, unlike Global Warming. But, and this is a big but, Nature abhors a vacuum. So what can nature put in this big, big vacuum? A new universe, that's what. And how will it do this? An other Big Bang. And 8 billion years or so after that a planet will form just the right distance from a sun that is just the right size and it will have a moon just the right size to keep this new planet stable so it can have seasons that don’t get too hot or too cold and 4.5 billion years later human life will turn up once again. Bit like a bus really. Good isn’t it.
Then comes the bad news. After 60 billion years give or take a hundred trillion years the hydrogen will run out. Go back up to the bit about Einstein’s equation to find out what the good news is. If each time you get to the sentence telling you to go back up the page you begin to understand that this process of re making a new universe every time the old one gives up the ghosts, big ghost, continues for ever. Which is a long time. Now if it does continue for ever, aka eternity then it stands to reason that it has happened before and we are living in just one of a long line of universes that has been popping in and out of existence, also for ever. Is this is true, and I don’t intend to devoting the rest of my life to proving this theory, then a thought that is niggling at the back of my mind is; when did all this start if indeed it ever did start. If it is going to continue for so long it will make eternity look like a week on Friday isn’t it possible that this process has always be happening, there was never a time when there wasn’t a universe. Don’t think about it for to long or your brain cells will start to hurt.
OK so I know this theory has nothing to do with Rock Walk except in a very indirect way but I am sat in on this pleasant spring day when I should be out taking photos but I stuck in waiting for the Gas Board to turn up and fix the central heating and I have read all the books I got out of the library last week, the washing up is done and I vacuumed the carpets yesterday and painting the bathroom can wait. And I wanted to get my theory into print before anyone else came along and nicked it.
Have a nice universe.
Our scaffolding in Fleet Street is still there, it has been built in 2 sections, the base runs the length of the area where the contractors are working but the top portion covers only a half of this and is being moved along as work progresses.
Talking of work progressing, there was an item in the paper on Monday the said the work on Rock Walk should be finished by the end of April, it wasn’t due to end until June. Oh good the Blue Wall down the middle of the road should go soon. No sorry, there is still much work to be done before that happy event. Walkways and steps to be constructed plus planting of exotic vegetation will have to take place before the crowd that will rival the destruction of the Berlin Wall turn up. The latest date for that is April 2010 which isn’t bad considering what the council said when the work stated in Jan 2008, “Three weeks.”
Here is a picture of some of the structural work going on the cliff face. Now I have a theory, several actually. The first is it is a gun emplacement, the council have heard something they aren’t telling the rest of us and are getting ready for the invasion. An other theory springs to mind, it could be that these sand bags are being used to fill a hole in the rocks before concrete is poured in.
A third theory that I have is that in the fullness of time, as the universe expands and all the hydrogen is used up making more and more suns that there will come a time when there is no more hydrogen left, remember stars are made mostly of hydrogen, that the universe will run out of it’s source of light. When that happens Einstein’s little equation will come apart. Remember E=MC squared. C being the speed of light. But if there is no more light then C will = zero. M times zero squared will equal zero so E, energy will have to equal zero. End of everything, nothing left but emptiness. Don’t worry, it wont happen any day soon, unlike Global Warming. But, and this is a big but, Nature abhors a vacuum. So what can nature put in this big, big vacuum? A new universe, that's what. And how will it do this? An other Big Bang. And 8 billion years or so after that a planet will form just the right distance from a sun that is just the right size and it will have a moon just the right size to keep this new planet stable so it can have seasons that don’t get too hot or too cold and 4.5 billion years later human life will turn up once again. Bit like a bus really. Good isn’t it.Then comes the bad news. After 60 billion years give or take a hundred trillion years the hydrogen will run out. Go back up to the bit about Einstein’s equation to find out what the good news is. If each time you get to the sentence telling you to go back up the page you begin to understand that this process of re making a new universe every time the old one gives up the ghosts, big ghost, continues for ever. Which is a long time. Now if it does continue for ever, aka eternity then it stands to reason that it has happened before and we are living in just one of a long line of universes that has been popping in and out of existence, also for ever. Is this is true, and I don’t intend to devoting the rest of my life to proving this theory, then a thought that is niggling at the back of my mind is; when did all this start if indeed it ever did start. If it is going to continue for so long it will make eternity look like a week on Friday isn’t it possible that this process has always be happening, there was never a time when there wasn’t a universe. Don’t think about it for to long or your brain cells will start to hurt.
OK so I know this theory has nothing to do with Rock Walk except in a very indirect way but I am sat in on this pleasant spring day when I should be out taking photos but I stuck in waiting for the Gas Board to turn up and fix the central heating and I have read all the books I got out of the library last week, the washing up is done and I vacuumed the carpets yesterday and painting the bathroom can wait. And I wanted to get my theory into print before anyone else came along and nicked it.
Have a nice universe.
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