Well, after many hours spent slaving over potential designs, I’ve finally decided to stick with my present blog theme after all.  I wanted something different, something snazzy, but in the end I was just so devoid of inspiration that anything I came up with didn’t have the pazazz or sparkle that I wanted.  I did come up with a nice design that used transparent backgrounds and condensed headings, but it didn’t grab me as much as I had intended, so I discarded it.  However, not to be completely defeated, I’ve fiddled with this design slightly, and will be approaching blogging slightly differently as a result – instead of fitting each post into one of four categories I’ll be assigning tags to each post, which means I can more easily talk about a wider variety of things without filling up the “Miscellaneous” category too much!  If any of you have any other requests for features, do let me know!

Most of the science I learned at school was reasonably straightforward – I understood it and accepted it, and most of the time remembered it too. Except for potential energy, which never made any sense whatsoever. In fact, I recently told a teacher friend of mine why potential energy doesn’t work, and he couldn’t counter my argument. The following is therefore my thought process in trying to understand and/or disprove potential energy, and may or may not actually include anything scientific.

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