Spooky beach

15 Sep 20197 Sep 2019

All powerful sun, lighting up a solar system...and here I stand, under a tiny cloud, as I apparently must, not getting its full blast in my face. Not that I…

From whence came you, stranger?

8 Sep 20195 Sep 2019

It is curious to realize that wet sand will keep footprints in it, while dry sand won't. I wonder whether it is as simple as a question of friction. Then,…

Wave colors, wave breaking

11 Aug 201910 Aug 2019

A simple image of an ocean wave breaking on a beach. Good. Waves are a physical phenomenon which occurs wherever oscillations move about. They can be electromagnetic such as light,…

Green and blue: The colours of summer

9 Jun 2019

I had a conversation with a friend the other day. The topic: The green colour in the Northern summer. Apparently, it's not quite as the summer green in other parts…

Martian landscape

28 Apr 201926 Apr 2019

Did you know that one can use the same maths for the surface of Mars and a surface of sand at the beach? Comment below or find out for yourselves…

Can’t wait!

7 Apr 201929 Mar 2019

Man, I'll probably bore you with this already, going on, as I am, about Earth's nutation and what that does to the weather… Enough with the snow already. Our days…

Colours with a capital “C”

17 Sep 20189 Sep 2018

With the autumn, the Colours come back! They really do. Just look at this image, which I have taken at a beach in Breivika on Andøya, Norway. In the distance,…

The least spectacular beach in Andøy

4 Sep 20153 Sep 2019

I will confess something. After having lived close to 15 years in Northern Norway, scenes like the one above appear in front of my eyes so often that I do…

The Physics of Bleik

18 Aug 201530 Aug 2019

The picture above is of Bleik beach in Andøy in Northern Norway. I will readily admit that I want to bait you to click on the link with that picture.…