Patiently Waiting

Eden Philpotts, patiently waiting for your wits to grow sharper
Eden Philpotts, patiently waiting for your wits to grow sharper

“The universe is filled with Magical Things, patiently waiting for your wits to grow sharper” – Eden Philpotts, English Author (1862-1960)

Philo T Farnsworth and T. Townsend Brown

Philo T. Farnsworth & T. Townsend Brown:
A Tale of Two Biographies (Part 2)

Philo T. Farnsworth. T. Townsend Brown.   (continued from Part 1)  I have been thinking a lot lately about how/where/when these two stories dovetail together.  I’ve only asked myself that question a jazillion times over the past twenty years (or my entire adult life if you want to go back to when all this started in

Philo T. Farnsworth & T. Townsend Brown:
A Tale of Two Biographies (Part 2)
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Paul Johnson (ca. 1970), whose 'Modern Times' (1985) declared 1919 as the start of 'Our Relativistic World'

Our Relativistic World:
Einstein, Eddington, and ‘Modern Times’

According to Paul Johnson (shown above in 1970) it’s a ‘relativistic world’ and we just live in it. Marx, Freud and Einstein all conveyed the same message to the 1920s: the world is not what it seems. – Paul Johnson, ‘Modern Times’ (1985) I had never heard of Paul Johnson until his recent passing was

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Einstein, Eddington, and ‘Modern Times’
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R.I.P. Gene Meeks

As regular readers of these pages know, the subject of controlled nuclear fusion runs parallel to all this discussion of “antigravity” and free-energy research and non-conventional physics.  In fact  the pursuit of fusion formed the unifying arc of the my first book, The Boy Who Invented Television And so it is with some sadness that

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