Cambridge, England

Sunday, July 26, 2009


We had a great day with Tommy and Christina. We attended a Sunday morning service at a church in the middle of town then grabbed an ostrich burger for lunch in the market place. After lunch Tommy and Christina took us punting then we went on a tour of the town and colleges. It was amazing to hear the stories of the people who have attended or taught at the college (Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Lord Byron, Prince Charles and William, Charles Darwin, C.S. Lewis for a time.)

Affiliates of Cambridge have won of 83 Nobel Prizes.
Many of the most important scientific discoveries and revolutions were made by Cambridge alumni. These include:
• Understanding the scientific method, by Francis Bacon
• The laws of motion, by Sir Isaac Newton
• The discovery of the electron, by J. J. Thomson
• The splitting of the atom by Sir John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton
• The unification of electromagnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell
• The discovery of hydrogen, by Henry Cavendish
• Evolution by natural selection, by Charles Darwin
• The Turing machine, a basic model for computation, by Alan Turing
• The structure of DNA, by Francis Crick and James D. Watson
• Pioneering quantum mechanics, by Paul Dirac

We are off to London at 5:30 am. The plan is to check out Big Ben, visit Saint James Park, view the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, visit the British museum for a few hours, participate in a church service/observe choir at Westminister Abbey, view London from the top of the London eye and catch the bus to Cambridge by 8pm.