Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Doctor Alan.

I had some turbulent times in my employment journey, sometimes being a slave to my ambition and, at other times, simply yearning for the stress-free life of a nine-to-five. I think a lot of us would like to be ‘very good at our job’ and command respect for that, but we generally settle for ‘being left alone’ to beaver away in the dim lamplight of our Dickensian existence. I think it was one of these crossroads that led me to be a volunteer tour guide at the Gravity Discovery Centre in Gingin, WA. I was also a relief teacher at the time, having resigned from the Education Department’s full-time role after distinctly feeling a lack of gruntlement with my job at a high school in country Western Australia.



The Gravity Discovery Centre:
I’d heard of the Gravity Discovery Centre (GDC) from adverts in the local paper – the Gingin Community News, as it was called then. (Now The Gingin Buzz). It was the brainchild of the (now) Emeritus Professor David Blair, who, in 2020, was a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. He’d been working for some years to discover Gravity Waves, which were predicted to occur due to major events in space, such as merging ‘Black Holes’, Supernovae or Binary stars rotating around one another. They ‘ripple’ through space-time at the speed of light but have a much lower speed of oscillation and ‘distort’ any object as they pass through it. This is a very big subject, so I will not go into too much detail here, except to say that because of Professor Blair’s interest in Einsteinian Physics, he set about creating somewhere in which children and others could develop an appreciation of this type of physics, rather than the Newtonian physics with which we all grew up.

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