Bachelor of Mathematics

I've been out of circulation for long now well more than a decade, I've been isolated from society and am in safe keeping you might say, doing well I have what I need and I'm not unhappy. There has been no contact with fellow researchers also in fact I've had no contact with anyone at the university but still I don't think this work has been published.

Domestics

Had a garden flat to be closer to the university I lived alone. Just work that's it, deserted by church too and mice and men not even telephone calls that too was unwelcome, no visitors or friends over and then mostly for the university. Just the PCs and I had budgies and a cockatiel. Some music and a bit of reading and went eating out alone once or twice. I was working most of the time, usually radio for company but no TV further just some reading. Cozy.

Also no drinker brothers these were not welcome in turn. Grilling meat outside on the coals and getting obscenely drunk falling on the fire and all over, general decadence and hedonism I don't drink or any of such sophistications. Enjoyed most of my time and having my own place although a dangerous neighbourhood.

Research and Astrophysics

A friend from UJ physics asked me for advice with this pulsar glitches problem in 2006, together we consulted a professor at UP a man as academic of international acclaim. It was he who suggested the possibility of shock-waves in the given model. The method of characteristics was used and I did the mathematical analysis of the partial differential equation and preliminary calculations.

At the same time UJ invited the university for collaboration there were funds available for interdisciplinary research ours had direct bearing too on the SKA joint international project the largest share being South African. I needed mainly some expensive computer software and travelling expenses.

Asked thus for financial support for the project I was not considered at all and my work apparently simply not deemed of any value.

I had submitted a brief proposal to the head he didn't make any requests just not even just forward to UJ he just ignored it. The head clearly thought my ideas and the project were of no merit and my services much better employed in marking exam scripts, by the thousand hundreds of hundreds including all of his own. I've heard nothing concerning this research since.

Also I'd been approached by VDM on publishing my doctoral thesis.

Mathematics

My would be collaborators at UJ and UP were most kind and appreciative. It is now fifteen years ago and as far as I know the research wasn't published but I am not concerned that someone stole this work it seems very unlikely. At UP there were reservations on it all it was felt I would be a valuable staff member and they treat their people a lot better.

The research I did at the time and uncompleted is applied mathematics and I would say the approach is  more like engineering. Could be I was a bit over optimistic this all fascinated me I hope the gigantic SKA undertaking is a success. Currently I'm doing calculations on some very interesting observations in Special Relativity that I believe have been overlooked, as well as reading the original manuscripts of great breakthroughs in mathematics through the centuries as translated into English.

Also I read some more current astrophysics articles the research seems more and more fantasy and speculation. For a start there are indeed pulsars in fact we can observe them but there is no such thing as a “neutron star” it is just a model and not even a very good one.

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Astronomy is big bucks, no doubt due to the fascination and imagination of the public and glossy pretty pictures and all of it taken for gospel. But then again, why not? Hopefully the international SKA project is a success it is the most expensive pure science undertaking ever with a terrific amount of money involved. I am not up to date on the Meerkat and SKA radio array telescope projects.

Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars!