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Christianity

Going to Church

28th January 2018 rattuscatchus 1795 Comments

As a nipper, I was brought up in what was a fairly typical, English family. Mum, Dad, siblings and normal sorts of stuff. We were what I call typical Church of England. We all went [more…]

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Review – Dunkirk, by Rat Catcher

8th August 2017 rattuscatchus 1 Comment

It was on Saturday that Mrs. Catcher and I took the train to the imax cinema to see Dunkirk. It is quite a journey so we made a night of it and came back the [more…]

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An abridged history of the atomic model

19th June 2017 rattuscatchus 0 Comments

Towards the end of the 19th century, scientists were considering the structure of the atom. The atom was deemed  to be a tiny piece of matter which helped answer questions regarding spectroscopy. Spectroscopy being the  [more…]

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Development of the Merlin Engine

11th April 2017 rattuscatchus 0 Comments

The Rolls Royce Merlin was a V12, 27 litre engine and originally was a private venture so was financed entirely by Rolls Royce and its backers. Designated the PV12 it followed the Rolls Royce trend [more…]

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The Sun – page 2 unfortunately….

27th March 2017 rattuscatchus 0 Comments

Previously, we looked at our Sun and how it works however only a small part was covered. We saw that  quantum tunneling allowed protons to fuse in conditions that classical physics – that relying only [more…]

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The Sun

28th February 2017 rattuscatchus 0 Comments

Ask anybody about the workings of the Sun and some will say that it relies on nuclear fusion for its energy output and there will be nods of agreement and then the conversation will turn [more…]

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