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Inside a cold storage bunker at Kew Garden’s Millennium Seed Bank in Ardingly, West Sussex, UK
The bank contains seeds from 10 per cent of the Earth’s wild plant species, providing an insurance policy for the planet’s plant life. The next goal is to collect 25 per cent of species by 2020.
Those cerebral sheddies over at Highland Science festival pose these questions after their successful lectures in a shed thing the other month, which we mentioned, it’s all science today on shedblog.
Have famous physicists had their own sheds? And could these have infleunced their work?
Did Newton sit in an apple shed, absently picking up some of them and dropping them on the floor?
Did Einstein find the space in his shed shrinking and the time going by more slowly – or the other way round?
Did Schrödinger’s cat come from Schrödinger’s shed?
And was Heisenberg uncertain about whether he had a shed or not?
Or could a Shed be the ultimate unit of matter?
One shed = the amount of stuff that one man can accumulate in ten years of marriage.
Indeed, could it be that we will soon see strings going out? – and sheds coming in!
thanks to Alex for the reminder.
Update: I have been in contact with Prof. Greg Parker and he says “It is in fact a fibreglass dome and looks nothing like a shed at all 
” which is shame, but at least the British know how etc wins through.
The Sun reports
Showcased in new astronomy book, “Star Vistas”, these spectacular images come courtesy of an amateur photographer based in a shed in the New Forest.
Greg Parker, a professor of electronics at Southampton University, has spent thousands of hours studying space from a portable observatory in his back garden and photographing the wonders he can see.
Spending less than £10,000 on his equipment, Greg has managed to bring these awe-inspiring images to print with his American co-author Noel Carboni, who processes them.
Some quotes about the book
“Confronted by [modern] advances, amateur astronomers – the driving force behind the study of the heavens for much of history – have had to reinvent themselves. Today’s ‘amateur’ is, in fact, a serious professional armed with the latest tools of optics and computers to capture, analyse, catalogue, and disseminate information and images of the night sky (and day sky!). They complement, rather than compete with, the work of major observatories and research scientists. Some areas of study, such as the search for near Earth objects – asteroids and comets – still rely heavily on the efforts of dedicated amateurs. Dr Greg Parker is one such serious amateur.” Sir Arthur C. Clarke
“The wonders of the Universe are here! Enjoy!” Dr. Brian May
“This is a book deserving an honoured place every scientific library, amateur or professional.” Sir Patrick Moore
Those science sheddies over at the highland science festival held their wossnames in a shed last weekend, sorry for the delay in reporting.. I got caught in a space time shed
See the great videos
Relativity by Bill Graham
A science festival’s organisers claim they will host what could be the world’s shortest physics lecture, which will be delivered in a potting shed.
Two talks lasting two minutes each for an audience of one person will be given on relativity and quantum theory.
The lectures, which will be repeated during 1 November, open this year’s Highland Science Festival.
Organiser Howie Firth said: “It really started with thinking about the book A Brief History of Time.”
More about the festival at the website
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