My name is Brendan Townsend, and welcome to my personal website.

I live in Cambridge England, proudly serving an important role for a leading global developer of wireless communication semiconductors and associated technologies.

This is my first website dedicated to a personal interest in universal sciences - particularly in areas that challenge the mind as we struggle to explain those things that continue to elude rational thought and explanation.

Unlike the scientist constrained by life-long beliefs or rarely daring to challenge the mantra of their peers and masters, I choose to step back from the detail, consider what we actually know (or think we know) about the universe around us, and inspire free and intelligent debate from a broader cross-section of the general public.

I don't claim the answers to such questions but I do have proposals of my own that might explain what gravity and inertia actually 'is', and why black holes are not black simply due to the pull of gravity preventing light from escaping - a common belief. I will endeavour to present my thoughts and perspectives with simplified explanations and analogy for accessible debate across a wider audience. After-all, there is nothing to dictate that exploring basic scientific fundamentals must be so inextricably complicated and the preserve of scholars, and essential to embrace considered objective scrutiny to unearth the truth.

In the following weeks I will present my thoughts on gravity and inertia, why parallel universes would have to exist if travelling back in time were ever possible, and perhaps why the outer reaches of the expanding universe appear to be speeding up without resorting to that theoretical stuff called 'dark matter'. I will also speculatively explore quantum entanglement - Einstein's inexplicable "spooky action at a distance", what a magnetic field actually is and what gives it a polar property.

As an unashamed maverick in search of answers to these most fundamental questions, who I am and what I know is unimportant as these questions remain. The 'challenge' is to speak out with an open mind, respectfully give due consideration to opposing views, and be prepared to accept that long-held beliefs could actually be wrong.

I hope you will enjoy your visits, and thank you for your interest.