Comments for New Forest Observatory http://www.newforestobservatory.com Adventures in Imaging Deep-Sky Objects Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on Professor Peter T Landsberg by Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Greg Parker Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:57 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1045 Dear Olof - your mail seems to have been cut short :) Could you please resend and I will post it. Dear Christopher - Peter and I had many discussions on Time, it was "The Enigma of Time" that first introduced me to Peter Landsberg :) Something like 3 or 4 years ago, Peter was having a grand tidy up of all his papers and kindly gave me all his collected papers on Time (I was actually only after one by Godel, which was fortunately in the collection). Peter's funeral is at 1:30 p.m. this coming Friday and I will be attending. Dear Olof – your mail seems to have been cut short :) Could you please resend and I will post it.

Dear Christopher – Peter and I had many discussions on Time, it was “The Enigma of Time” that first introduced me to Peter Landsberg :) Something like 3 or 4 years ago, Peter was having a grand tidy up of all his papers and kindly gave me all his collected papers on Time (I was actually only after one by Godel, which was fortunately in the collection).

Peter’s funeral is at 1:30 p.m. this coming Friday and I will be attending.

]]> Comment on Professor Peter T Landsberg by Christopher Essex http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 Christopher Essex Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:09:11 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1041 Those of us who knew Peter from his excursions to Telluride Colorado were very saddened to hear of his passing. In Telluride he and I once organized a workshop together entitled "Radiation Thermodynamics." I recall walking down a street there (where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once robbed the bank) while discussing how he felt that he lived in logarithmic time. Christopher Essex, Professor, and Associate Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics the University of Western Ontario London, Canada N6A 5B7 Those of us who knew Peter from his excursions to Telluride Colorado were very saddened to hear of his passing. In Telluride he and I once organized a workshop together entitled “Radiation Thermodynamics.” I recall walking down a street there (where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once robbed the bank) while discussing how he felt that he lived in logarithmic time.

Christopher Essex,
Professor,
and Associate Chair,
Department of Applied Mathematics
the University of Western Ontario
London, Canada N6A 5B7

]]> Comment on Professor Peter T Landsberg by Olof Engstrom http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 Olof Engstrom Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:06 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1040 Dear Greg, I appreciate very much reading your story about Peter. I was looking for him on the web, found your place and realized that I was too late to contact him again. For me, Peter was a great teacher, mentor and coworker. I met him first time in the 70s when I was a PhD student at the University of Lund, Sweden. He was a great inspiration for me and I followed him in his tracks within thermodynamics and charge carrier statistics of semiconductors. We published two papers and a book chapter together. The last paper as late as 2007. I will never forget his brilliance and h Dear Greg,
I appreciate very much reading your story about Peter. I was looking for him on the web, found your place and realized that I was too late to contact him again. For me, Peter was a great teacher, mentor and coworker. I met him first time in the 70s when I was a PhD student at the University of Lund, Sweden. He was a great inspiration for me and I followed him in his tracks within thermodynamics and charge carrier statistics of semiconductors. We published two papers and a book chapter together. The last paper as late as 2007.

I will never forget his brilliance and h

]]> Comment on Professor Peter T Landsberg by Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Greg Parker Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:17:17 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1031 Dear Alan, Thank you for writing in re Peter Landsberg. Hindsight is always such a marvelous thing and I should have written Peter's biography even though there were no interested publishers at the time - I am responsible for the loss of a significant piece of history. All the best, Greg Dear Alan,
Thank you for writing in re Peter Landsberg. Hindsight is always such a marvelous thing and I should have written Peter’s biography even though there were no interested publishers at the time – I am responsible for the loss of a significant piece of history.
All the best,
Greg

]]> Comment on Professor Peter T Landsberg by Alan Brier http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1027 Alan Brier Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:01:55 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1027 Dear Greg Parker, my partner Brend Cheason and I (105 Brookvale Rd, Highfield) are also old friends and near neighbours of Peter and Sylvia Landsberg. I knew him as an open and generous member of what we were once pleased to call the University community. I think he mentioned to me your interest in writing his biography, and I read the two volumes on his former school in Berlin with interest. It was a great pleasure to experience Peter beginning again to speak German with me some 20 years ago, and being invited as a distinguished theoretical physicist to speak again a conferences in Germany. I hope we can manage to get together soon - I am returning today from Chennai, teaching a short course at the Indian College of Journalism - to exchange further memories of Peter and offer appropriate support to Sylvia. With best wishes (unbekannt, as we say) Alan Brier Former Dept. of Politics, Retd. Associate Member, NCRM, Southampton Dear Greg Parker,
my partner Brend Cheason and I (105 Brookvale Rd, Highfield) are also old friends and near neighbours of Peter and Sylvia Landsberg. I knew him as an open and generous member of what we were once pleased to call the University community. I think he mentioned to me your interest in writing his biography, and I read the two volumes on his former school in Berlin with interest. It was a great pleasure to experience Peter beginning again to speak German with me some 20 years ago, and being invited as a distinguished theoretical physicist to speak again a conferences in Germany. I hope we can manage to get together soon – I am returning today from Chennai, teaching a short course at the Indian College of Journalism – to exchange further memories of Peter and offer appropriate support to Sylvia.
With best wishes (unbekannt, as we say)
Alan Brier
Former Dept. of Politics, Retd.
Associate Member, NCRM, Southampton

]]> Comment on One of the greatest con-tricks carried out by this Government – so far. by Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/16/one-of-the-greatest-con-tricks-carried-out-by-this-government-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-1004 Greg Parker Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:21:11 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1123#comment-1004 Hi John, We certainly live in "interesting" times - interesting in the Chinese sense of the word. Socrates yes, but my most recent worry was Dr. Kelly! I am currently fixing razor wire all around my fence :) Hi John,

We certainly live in “interesting” times – interesting in the Chinese sense of the word. Socrates yes, but my most recent worry was Dr. Kelly! I am currently fixing razor wire all around my fence :)

]]> Comment on One of the greatest con-tricks carried out by this Government – so far. by John Walton http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/16/one-of-the-greatest-con-tricks-carried-out-by-this-government-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 John Walton Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:15:11 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1123#comment-1001 Hi Greg, I am 56 and remember well petrol went from 5s 11d to 32p overnight with decimalisation, and thought it was all abig con trick. Anyhoo I was lucky enough to undertake tertiary education when the post-war ideals of Beveridge were still being implemented. This however led to students thinking for themselves and questioning authority. The student riots and civil rights movement were seen by "them" as a threat to their power, so this is the reason for the introduction of chaos, leeching of education budgets, as a thinly veiled ploy to return to the dark ages where a fine life can be had by the luminati, on the foundation of slavery for the uneducated masses. Thwe Americans lead the way in by copying Roman Imperialism: the many distractions for hoi polloi. Remember Socrates was effectively murdered for teaching youngsters to think for themselves. Hi Greg,
I am 56 and remember well petrol went from 5s 11d to 32p overnight with decimalisation, and thought it was all abig con trick.
Anyhoo I was lucky enough to undertake tertiary education when the post-war ideals of Beveridge were still being implemented. This however led to students thinking for themselves and questioning authority. The student riots and civil rights movement were seen by “them” as a threat to their power, so this is the reason for the introduction of chaos, leeching of education budgets, as a thinly veiled ploy to return to the dark ages where a fine life can be had by the luminati, on the foundation of slavery for the uneducated masses.
Thwe Americans lead the way in by copying Roman Imperialism: the many distractions for hoi polloi.

Remember Socrates was effectively murdered for teaching youngsters to think for themselves.

]]> Comment on Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] – Kemble’s Cascade by Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/01/28/astronomy-picture-of-the-day-apod-kembles-cascade/comment-page-1/#comment-952 Greg Parker Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:59:51 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1107#comment-952 Thank you Mick - glad you like it too :) Greg Thank you Mick – glad you like it too :)
Greg

]]> Comment on Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] – Kemble’s Cascade by Mick Hyde http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/01/28/astronomy-picture-of-the-day-apod-kembles-cascade/comment-page-1/#comment-951 Mick Hyde Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:38:09 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1107#comment-951 Superb image Greg. I agree, I think it's one of your best images. Superb image Greg. I agree, I think it’s one of your best images.

]]> Comment on The pinhole camera project 7th September to 17th December 2009 by Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2009/12/17/the-pinhole-camera-project-7th-september-to-17th-december-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Greg Parker Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:14:14 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1015#comment-941 I wondered about those - you could possibly be right! Full Moon or close to full Moon is a real possibility. Greg I wondered about those – you could possibly be right! Full Moon or close to full Moon is a real possibility.
Greg

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