Hello there! What brings you to this website?


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This page is primarily just a place-holder for my website domain, hathrell.com. So don't expect to find much here, because its main purpose is for testing a few things that I use on the other public websites I run, and the virtual private server that hosts one of them. You can find those websites at

watfordcroquet.org.uk and angliacroquet.uk

I mostly just use this domain for some email accounts. But if you really want to find out more about me then you could also look at my LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hathrell-b56b2676, though I don't keep it up to date. And I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account at all! - so don't bother looking for one.

Following an undergraduate degree in mathematics I migrated into theoretical physics as a research student - not much of a change really since it shared the department with applied maths. You can find out more about my research on quantum field theory anomalies in curved space-time and the papers I published at http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.J.Hathrell.1 and
https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=hathrell+sj


Quantum correction to
photon propagation

One of those papers has had some interesting academic citations over the years, including research on Warp Drives and on Teleportation. Something for the Trekkies!

Stephen Hawking came to a couple of departmental seminars I gave as a research student back then, since we were working in the same building at the time, though I don't think it influenced his own work. But those papers of mine are ancient history now - I haven't done any more academic research since they were published nearly 40 years ago. I went to work for a certain oil company , and after a quarter of a century of that I retired early.

If you peruse the croquet websites listed above then you will gather that I have taken up croquet quite seriously in my retirement, and have just about made it into the world rankings, albeit at a modest level. You can find the latest rankings at http://butedock.plus.com/cgs/rank.php for Association Croquet and
http://rank.worldcroquet.org/gcrankdg/rank.php for Golf Croquet. They are updated frequently (just accept the defaults and hit the 'Submit' button nearest the top of the page to see the latest list). There is still a LARGE gap between me and the world best!