The first meeting of our science group was way back in October 2008, and the topic was “The Periodic Table of the Elements”, a subject we have re-visited several times over the years. In these ten years we have enjoyed one another’s company and have gained in our understanding of many and various branches of science – earthquakes and volcanoes; human biology; metals and plastics; space probes; ocean currents and weather; the physics and mathematics of music; magnetism; water; space-time; fractal art – the list could go on………
But ten years under one leader is enough – the spring of ideas is running dry. So the 17th September will be the last meeting of this group. There is a Buddhist saying – “Nothing, good or bad, lasts forever”. So I will say “So long, and thanks for all the fish – and birds, and rocks, and clouds, and galaxies, and bugs, and electrons, and fungi and comets…………
Jill Taylor