Just came back from the dog walk tonight and took a look at the pinhole camera on the side of the house before going in. I don’t believe this!! Once again a bird has decided to peck through the Aluminium … Continue reading
Title: The Golden Solid Angle: A Three-Dimensional Extension of the Golden Ratio Abstract: The Golden Ratio (φ) and its planar analogue, the Golden Angle (α), are well-known mathematical constants that appear widely in Nature, design and geometry. In this short … Continue reading
Here is this morning’s partial solar eclipse taken from the New Forest Observatory at the maximum at 11 a.m. GMT. Image shown using the projection method.
This one is a shaggy-dog story and a half. I will attempt to make sense of the whole episode. It was probably March 16th 2025 around 8:00 p.m. (I didn’t make a note) that I went outside to have a … Continue reading
Spent a little time tonight having another look at the Kemble’s Cascade data.
Things at the New Forest Observatory have just gone plain stupid. About 2 years ago I wanted to make a 3D Sunflower seed pattern using Mathematica, so that I could visualise an object that could be based on the Golden … Continue reading
I decided to reprocess a whole lot of M31 data this morning and was pleasantly surprised when I zoomed right into the nucleus. So here’s just the core region of M31.
It took a few hours for my last two neurons to process the gem of a solution that ChatGPT gave me to find the Golden Solid Angle. So I woke up at 2:00 a.m. this morning on a bit of … Continue reading
Well this ChatGPT business just got a whole lot weirder! I first asked ChatGPT about the Golden Solid Angle and at first it didn’t understand what I meant and came back with the conventional 2-dimensional golden angle. I then defined … Continue reading
I started of a conversation with ChatGPT with some fairly bog-standard stuff to see if it came back with the correct answers, and then I went completely off the rails. The ensuing discussion impressed and fascinated me at the same … Continue reading
