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<\/a><\/p>\nIn hindsight, I was not prepared for the magnificence of the tour before us. Arthur from Brazil is a bright physics enthusiast and we started talking about energy conservation in a pendulum where the force of gravity changes with time.<\/p>\n
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After some struggle on the get-go (it’s been a while), I showed him how to establish the equation of motion: a second-order ugly duckling of a differential equation that I didn’t try to solve. He seemed to enjoy this though which shows you how advanced many of these LIYSF high school students are!<\/p>\n
After a long rail and bus trip, we had arrived at the ancient masterpiece converted in 1514 for a royal residence:<\/p>\n
First, some mean little sculptures presumably guarding the area:<\/p>\n The first of a vast brigade of adornments that smother Hampton Court:<\/p>\n Inside the first courtyard are some intriguing woody characters:<\/p>\n Inside a grand dining hall hangs a collection of mind-boggling tapestries made largely of gold and silver interwoven fabric:<\/p>\n The pictures are portraits from the life of Biblical Abraham who was apparently regarded by King Henry VIII.<\/p>\n Can you identify the scenes of the near-sacrifice of Isaac and Abraham tithing to Melchizidech?<\/p>\n Ye Olde toilets:<\/p>\n I failed to catch all the descriptions, so here are just a bunch of photos:<\/p>\n This place is a maze…<\/p>\n The grandeur made my head swim a little bit.<\/p>\n Outside in the gardens gives a different version of magnificence: the beauty of meticulous horticulture stretched over the 60 acre\u00a0surroundings:<\/p>\n The guys:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brody, me, and two jolly good aristocrats:<\/p>\n Thoroughly stuffed on eye-candy, we go have some lunch:<\/p>\n Selfie with Salman!<\/p>\n From South Kensington Stn. three little participants went to market where I finally gave in and bought lip chap. Also bananas and chocolate are core foods in our household:<\/p>\n We then got snagged by the ponzi scheme of this silly ice cream place:<\/p>\n Twas a very tasty rip off!<\/p>\n Upon getting home, I had to run through O Canada again before tonight. Mind you, my voice was still recovering from the cheering at yesterday’s Olympics. On the way to Old Chelsea Hall for the Traditions of Home night, I joined the Chinese who, it turns out, have some slick dance moves.<\/p>\n Also, Salman took another selfie with me:<\/p>\n The truly beautiful hall was built in 1860:<\/p>\n Everyone started rehearsing.\u00a0The Pakistan group:<\/p>\n The “Non-Spice” Girls:<\/p>\n The Canadian (I love this photo):<\/p>\n You can see my act\u00a0and some others on my Youtube channel:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcKcC5xctJelTg1qWlIszFw<\/p>\n After a jolly good plethora of performances…<\/p>\n … \u00a0we were eager to get pictures with all the traditional dress!<\/p>\n The Kuwaitis brought plenty of dates and nutty Arabic coffee while the Russian girls blessed my heart with chocolate:<\/p>\n In fact, the Russians were so generous, I received a fragment of mammoth tusk from Andrew and another souvenir from Ekatrina.<\/p>\n Posing with the Indonesians (I think, but maybe Malaysians):<\/p>\n I was empowered to release my inner Arab by the Kuwaitis:<\/p>\n Lawrence of Canada? The night ended at a jolly good hour in the common room as usual.<\/p>\n Etienne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So as usual, the aftermath of late socializing blended with strong mochaccino and a tight schedule set the stage for our early trip to Hampton Court Palace. In hindsight, I was not prepared for the magnificence of the tour before us. Arthur from Brazil is a bright physics enthusiast and we started talking about energy … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n