Dr Geoffrey Bath's Rooftop Lecture
In wonderful sunshine, club member Dr Geoffrey Bath gave a demonstration into how gravitational fields are formed in cataclysmic variable or CV stars, which consist of a primary white dwarf and a secondary mass transferring star.
Doctor Bath has lectured in physics at Merton and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford University, and worked as a research fellow with Nasa at Princeton University in America.
His complex experiment, using vessels containing water, elastic and a siphon, attempts to simulate and explain gravitational anomalies found in certain types of stars.
Dr Bath admitted that his work has no practical applications and isn't going to make him into a millionaire. Commodore Melita Biggs thanked him very much for a very interesting and informative talk.
