Sorta Like “Anti-Gravity”
Imagine how much fun this guy will have when “Defying Gravity” arrives on bookshelves:
Archive (to 2009)
Content posted to the T. Townsend Brown website (ttbrown.com) during ‘The Before Times” (2005-2009), prior to the project being abandoned (temporarily, it turns out) until 2022.
Elvis Lives…
(updated 221121) …and George W. Bush is just the Comissioner of Baseball…or, at least, these are among the possibilities that some leading physicists postulate might live among an infinite number of parallel universes. A recent episode of The History Channel’s “The Universe” series explores the same concepts that we dance around here in our own …
A Cautionary Tale
Oh yeah, “fact checking.” What a concept: A man whose memoir about his experience during the Holocaust was to have been published in February has admitted that his story was embellished, and on Saturday evening his publisher canceled the release of the book. And once again a New York publisher and Oprah Winfrey were among …
Christmas? It’s Also Isaac Newton’s Birthday
..although that depends on which calendar you’re using: Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if …
Mathemeticians at the Bar
You probably don’t want to share a room in a motel with these guys, either: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The fourth mathematician orders an eighth of a beer. And so on, …
What If The “Multiverse” Is Real?
Don’t ya just love when the guys with all the degrees start pontificating about things we’ve been tossing around here for years now? Call it a fluke, a mystery, a miracle. Or call it the biggest problem in physics. Short of invoking a benevolent creator, many physicists see only one possible explanation: Our universe may be but one of …
Richard Branson wants to know: What Would YOU Do…
…if you had $200K to spend on a vacation? Richard Branson has partially moved on from inner space travel to the final frontier. The founder of Virgin Airlines and Galactic calls 2008 the “Year of the Spaceship.” His White Knight mothership and spacecrafts were unveiled in Mojave, Ca. The project took about 4 years to …
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Back In The Saddle
Just in case anybody is wondering…. my hard drive was restored on Monday, but it did take ALL day. I’m finally getting back to the task at hand now. It feels like I’ve lost a whole week. Wait a second… Thursday to Wednesday.. yup, pretty much a week. So where were we…. Oh yes, looking …
The Book Marketing Committee…
….has just held their first “meeting”
Be The First on Your Block
I got a heads-up the other day from (Naudin’s) Yahoo Lifters Group about a new patent: Link: Personal flight vehicle and system – Patent 7182295. Various methods, apparatuses, and systems in which an electric-energy lifting panel levitates a user secured to the electric-energy lifting panel. The electric-energy lifting panel includes a first capacitive plate and …