Between Inver and Milk Hollow,
Here and there about Baile-churn:
She is a birch, a hazel,
A straight slender young rowan.
Higgs 4: Symmetry for the weak
The weak interactions are really weak compared to the strong ones. Indeed they are really weak compared to electromagnetism – about 100 billion times weaker. Yet there are also some similarities with electromagnetism.
Higgs 5: The strong dominate the field
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Higgs 8: Physics is worth a mass
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The origami man
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Solway shore stories
“Criffel has vanished, blotted out by the rain that is sweeping across the Firth into our faces. We are standing in a row facing the incoming tide; there’s not much talking, just an
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It’s the stuff of nightmares – a giant snake so big that it could barely have squeezed through a modern door; as long as a bus and weighing more than a ton. It could swallow
Damascus swords had vanadium steel
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