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Neil Finlayson

@neilfinlayson

Electronic, optical & Internet engineer. One-note punk musician. Building fluorescence & Raman spectroscopy and imaging systems at the University of Edinburgh.

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@JoyceCarolOates Yes and ‘Deserto Rosso’ too is quite wonderful. Antonioni’s existentialism and sense of alienation seems more relevant than ever.
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Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates·
finally saw the complete Antonioni trilogy, "L'Avventura," "La Notte," & "L'Eclisse." (1960. 1961, 1962) Highly atmospheric, mysterious & (seemingly) directionless, often beautiful to observe but probably, for viewers in 2026, too possessed of a European/existentialist languor to be emotionally engaging. in each self-consciously stylized film a female figure moving about in a landscape or cityscape as if mesmerized by what she sees would seem to be Antonioni's homage to the ineffable power of the visual no doubt shared by all filmmakers; Fellini does this also, & notably in the US Scorsese, but it is human faces that most mesmerize these directors while for Antonioni & Bertolucci it is cityscapes--walls, shadows, windows, rooftops, high-rise apartment buildings & the spaces between them, street lights, windblown leaves & clouds.
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George Hirst has promise and presence but can he put the ball in the onion bag? I’m thinking George and @32watto would be an interesting World Cup option.
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Aaron Gwyn@AmericanGwyn·
A number of my favorite novelists played guitar. I have some theories about why, but can’t quite articulate them. (Joyce & Cormac pictured below).
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Neil Finlayson@neilfinlayson·
… inherited all the ontological attributes of Divinity. Yet only those–all the others the departed God took away with him.”
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Neil Finlayson@neilfinlayson·
This is how it ends: “The Infinite Universe of the New Cosmology, infinite in Duration as well as in Extension, in which eternal matter in accordance with eternal and necessary laws moves endlessly and aimlessly in eternal space, …
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Neil Finlayson@neilfinlayson·
Alexandre Koyré’s ‘From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe’ describes the revolutionary period of around 150 years in which conceptions of the cosmos were transformed.
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Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien·
Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.
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Sky Sports Premier League@SkySportsPL·
Thomas Frank tears a page from his notepad for the Spurs players 📝👀
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@martinmbauer On the physics front are you interested in SPAD sensors for quantum applications?
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Neil Finlayson@neilfinlayson·
@martinmbauer Somebody (you?) could pick up the trail on the Riemann Hypothesis where Jerome Franel left off, Farey sequences, the rationals, eigenvalues of the Free Jacobi Matrix, Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%… It’s not really physics but it’s hard enough!
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Conn Carroll@conncarroll·
More of Gorsuch torching Kavanaugh.
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Neil Finlayson@neilfinlayson·
Watching the movies and thinking real slow. Einstein described Bohr's 1913 work on quantum theory, hydrogen and the structure of atoms as "the highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought".
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy@dramdarcy

Shades of the great Irish scholar Osborn Bergin, who attended the double matinee of Westerns in the Stella cinema, Rathmines, religiously every Saturday afternoon. My father remembered himself and AE walking down Leinster Rd discussing the upcoming programme on several occasions.

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Brian why does the universe need to be so big? @ProfBrianCox
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Brilliant idea. There may be some trifling civil engineering challenges to overcome, but I’m all in
Sam Bowman@s8mb

The president of the Royal Institute of British Architects @CW_Architect, best known for lobbying for laws requiring builders to pay an architect to approve their projects, has called for a giant high speed railway line to be built connecting Dublin, Bangor and Newcastle. “Maybe I have been too influenced by … NEOM the Line in Saudi Arabia, having worked on the high-speed stations running alongside the 170km city for the last few years,” he says.

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