Tom Brown
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I have 232 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 202351 times
and 17 of my stories have been cherry picked.
325 of my 2,365 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 327 votes
Apart from studies in the natural sciences I am interested in languages and literature in general as well as religion. Lately I have been writing more popular general interest essays and also trying for a bit of balance with mathematics and while keeping things understandable for most people.
I am South-African born and bred. At high school I excelled in science and mathematics competitions and completed two years of mechanical engineering with very good results. That didn't work out due to ill health. I have had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits.
Graduating with an MSc under WK Bartoszek (Unisa 1997) and a PhD under N Sauer (Pretoria 2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis: Markov operators and stochastic processes; vector valued Laplace transforms applied to semigroups and families of evolution equations (empathies). It has now been quite a while since I was academically active I don't have much published. The way things have developed was beyond my control and I am very isolated.
Favourite authors are Jules Verne, HG Wells and Jack London, Shakespeare and poets William Blake and Dylan Thomas. I like adventure, science fiction and fantasy movies my all time greatest are the Narnia stories and the Lord of the Rings.
The meal best enjoyed is a breakfast of bacon eggs on toast fried chips with fresh orange juice, and for supper an ox-tail stew. I like eating out romantic. For recreation nature hikes, camping and fishing, listening to good music and reading, classics mostly, and good movies. I love dogs my best one was a Maltese poodle Freddy. I love rain and lightning thunderstorms and rainbows. As well as writing and publishing here on Abctales.
God is in the details. God is in the timing.
Yes I think Statics
Posted on Sat, 22 Oct 2022
Yes I think Statics would be exactly the same as in Classic Mechanics, because if everything is fixed and there is no movement it means time derivatives would all be zero, that is velocities and acceleration and so on. It would mean time is...
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Very good
Posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2022
Looks very good but there is still a lot of work, you should write the facts in a form of coherent continuous prose and write up as true statements just facts, like you've done here. You understand what I'm saying just a fact without...
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Just wondering now
Posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2022
Just wondering now Paul, but could events as accidents and serious problems in (also commercial missions) space exploration have to do with extra terrestrial activities? I think for instance of Apollo 13 and the space shuttle explosions and more...
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When it is winter here
Posted on Sat, 10 Sep 2022
When it is winter here you have summer and your winter is our summer. It's like a see-saw a balance. Some people have little jersies for their doggies haven't seen a cat? They must also get cold although your cat is cold enough as it is. "...
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Might as well throw some Hawking in
Posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2022
Might as well throw some Hawking in as well he is the greatest mind since Newton and Einstein you know. He's an expert at this stuff.
Thanks for the acknowledgement Paul and making such a very good overview. You made the best of it for...
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Might as well throw some Hawking in
Posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2022
Might as well throw some Hawking in as well he is the greatest mind since Newton and Einstein you know. He's an expert at this stuff.
Thanks for the acknowledgement Paul and making such a very good overview. You made the best of it for...
Read full commentPosted in Is There Anybody Up There ? [- 1st instalment]
I thought it came from "dandy lion"?
Posted on Thu, 01 Sep 2022
I thought it came from "dandy lion"? Funny hey!? you know like the lion's mane. It is the breezes that keeps it afloat obviously. They do fall only very slowly. Can be a nuisance too.
See you Rhiannon! Tom
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JPB also wrote a beautiful little piece
Posted on Sun, 28 Aug 2022
JPB also wrote a beautiful little piece of a day of meditation on the farm, full of the wonder of nature, full of memories and sentiment.
https://www....
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When I was young long ago
Posted on Mon, 22 Aug 2022
When I was young long ago one rarely heard of someone who had been a hospital patient with mental illness but it only came out later. Now it seems everybody has some kind of psychiatric condition. Apparently more than 95% of Americans are on some...
Read full commentPosted in Stop the stigma
This is lovely Rhiannon for kids
Posted on Sat, 27 Aug 2022
This is lovely Rhiannon for kids to learn something. And your picture a bit of work you must have done it yourself. You can see it's a teacher or a granny most teachers are very dedicated.
Beautiful writing too and told as a story. Kiddies...
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