Success 2!!

Charlie Mc Donnell (youtube star) is now promoting this blog!

He's always been uneasy about promoting things on his youtube channel so of course he has been subtle about spreading awareness about me but the recommendation is unavoidable in his most recent video! He most definitely named my blog!

I admit to having to re-watch the video just to hear him say it again and check that 1.He got it right and 2. He remembered the units, which he did - I have now been inspired to always always remember my units now (unless I forget...)

Okay, maybe I just slipped into 'deluded teenage girl' mode... But seriously it's a pretty good physics video - check it out ;) (I do realise 2/3 of my followers already subscribe to Charlie!)

Also I realise I am copying one of my favourite friends and blogger by making a post related to her future husband and so as to remain as true to girl code as possible I have named him her future husband and linked to her post here - (which is also useless because 2/3 of my followers already follow or are her?!) she's great!!

Success!!

My Physics teacher gave me an application form for a Physics Academy in London during the Summer and although I know perfectly well 'why I would like to be accepted into the academy', that didn't mean that I wasn't trying to find a way to write it for hours and hours (with help from my wonderful Dad!) It's so hard! Apparently 'how cool would it be if I was excepted into an 'Academy'isn't a sufficient reason...

But as it happens, today I found out that I made it into the academy!! It's going to be so great! Now that it is months away I can be excited but I know perfectly well that by at least a week before I go I will be taken over my nerves and not want to go, then I'll get there and hopefully love it so much I don't want to leave! That's what usually happens.. Anyway, back to excitement - I was accepted into the academy!! That sentence is too awesome!!

This is how I imagine it will be. Hope I'm not disappointed...

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We've been doing a bit of particle physics in school recently and my mind is blown. I mean seriously, it's so much to comprehend! On the way to school this morning (for another day of physics!) I caught myself thinking about it and it's so hard to believe! And then the more I thought about it, I realised that I actually find it quite hard to imagine there are even atoms but I've had quite a few years to get used to the idea and it seems quite normal to me now. I wonder if one day it will be obvious for fundamental particles to exist with strange (in both senses of the word!) characteristics and forces with invisible exchange particles and everything around us, everything in us to once have been squished into the tiniest space? I hope not. I want it to always be mind boggling and special.

However when we learnt about how 'fundamental particles have colour' (except not really because it is a variable property that is more of a way of description rather than a physical description)it did cause me to wonder if I might be slightly too sane to actually stand a chance of understanding particle physics... Although my sanity has been questioned in the past... Oh well, sacrifices must be made and I always thought sanity was over rated anyway!

Death by Particle Physics

Even though it's the Easter holidays I had to go into school today and do physics for 6 hours. We were doing fundamental particles, big bang and then space stuff which would have been awesome except it was so much that it made my brain hurt. So I got home and went straight to sleep which was probably a bad idea because I had the worst nightmare. I was drowning in an ocean of fundamental particles. And I know, I know that doesn't sound so terrible since they are so tiny but they were scratching my throat and making me gag and it felt so real! The worst part is that I was trying to remember what we had learnt but I couldn't understand what they were!! Physics is really starting to get to me...