# Charles Howard

> View of the Universe


## Posts

- [Hydroponics](https://charlesbhoward.com/hydroponics/)
- [Thunder Eggs](https://charlesbhoward.com/thunder-eggs/): Gallery of Thunder Eggs
- [Spheres](https://charlesbhoward.com/spheres/): Gallery of Spheres
- [Slabs](https://charlesbhoward.com/slabs/): Gallery of Slabs
- [Mystic Silica](https://charlesbhoward.com/mystic-silica/): Whilst being exquisitely beautiful and full of physical and chemical interest, I do not believe inanimate stones have any magical, spiritual or healing powers. Nevertheless, many people from all over the world do hold such views and thus a page on “mystic Silica” must...
- [Microscopic Silica](https://charlesbhoward.com/microscopic-silica/): The colors and patterns found in the Silicas are due to inclusions of metal ions, crystals of other compounds, bits of “dirt” . Beautiful as they are when just looked at, under the microscope an even more beautiful world of colors shapes, swirls and...
- [Organic Silica](https://charlesbhoward.com/organic-silica/): Silica has a unique property in that it can fossilize organic material, by replacement but it does preserve perfectly the organic structures that were originally present.
- [Glasses](https://charlesbhoward.com/glasses/): Perhaps the best known form of silica is glass. When molten silica cools rapidly, it doesn’t have time to align into a well organized structure (crystals) and stays in a higgledy-piggledy disorganized (albeit extremely viscous) liquid. This may occur in nature via  several mechanisms.
- [Polymorphs](https://charlesbhoward.com/polymorphs/): Silica can exist in several polymorphs and these forms can occur in a myriad of different guises:-
- [Geodes](https://charlesbhoward.com/geodes/): Sometimes within old lava fields are found rounded “geodes” of silica often with a rhyolite exterior.  These are known as agates, or Thunder eggs. Much like human beings, these geodes are built on the same basic pattern but each one is different from all...
- [Fate of Quartz](https://charlesbhoward.com/fate-of-quartz/): About 12% of the  earth’s crust is Silica and a further 45% contains Silica in the form of Silicates.
- [What can I do for the Environment?](https://charlesbhoward.com/what-can-i-do-for-the-environment/): Realization that the Environment is important to us all has been, and still is, increasing over the last few years.
- [Composting](https://charlesbhoward.com/composting/): By composting home organic waste, about 25%-30% less garbage is saved from landfills.
- [Food Waste](https://charlesbhoward.com/food-waste/): Food waste is the biggest single environmental and social problem the world is facing.
- [Wow](https://charlesbhoward.com/wow/): It’s not for you to receive inspiration. It’s for you to seize inspiration.
- [Beer Making](https://charlesbhoward.com/beer-making/): One of my hobbies is home beer making. Its great fun and has three enjoyable aspects 1) Brewing it 2) Drinking it 3) Giving it away to friends.  Free beer-instant popularity! Here is a short film about how to do it.
- [Inorganic Communication](https://charlesbhoward.com/inorganic-communication/): Although we associate Communication with the organic world, inorganic matter also communicates one to the other. We describe this communication  by “The Physical Laws of the Universe”, which are formulated in mathematical form.
- [Orthopaedics](https://charlesbhoward.com/hello-world/): Although I have spent most of my professional life as a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon, my main research interest has been bone healing. Treatment of fractures over the last 70 years have, in my opinion been sub minimal duethe “misuse” of the biological sequence of...

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- [About Me](https://charlesbhoward.com/about/): Charles Howard studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital, England, and trained as an orthopedic surgeon in Cardiff and Oxford, specializing in pediatric orthopedics.
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