“The universe is filled with Magical Things, patiently waiting for your wits to grow sharper” – Eden Philpotts, English Author (1862-1960)
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 …
Our Relativistic World:
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You might not understand this right now but… We found clear evidence of deviations at four locations: Fish Hotel, Lyford Cay, White Hole, near Nassau* Dogleg Reef, near Marathon, in South Florida In the course of our dives, we recorded precise figures for what the compass readings were as compared to what they normally should …
Sometimes there is more than one answer (there was a link here in The Before Days): Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed …
(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 …
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 …
We like to think of America as the shining light of civilization, Reagan’s "city on the hill," a bastion of "exceptionalism" according to that great contemporary political philosopher Sarah Palin. Well, maybe not so much: It must be tough being Ronald Wright. As a blisteringly insightful historian with eyes as much on the future as …
Link: When Did Science Become the Enemy?. The fact that you’re confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science and astronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium. Despite the fact that astronomy is one of the two most popular science subjects in American schools (the other is biology), it’s really not …
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 …
We note here the passing last week of Elma G. “Pem” Farnsworth, the widow of Philo T. Farnsworth, in Bountiful, UT. Mrs. Farnsworth was 98 years old, and had been in declining health for some time. She took her final breaths about 3:AM the morning of April 27, 2006. Anybody who has read any of …
Today we note the weird and tragic tale of one Gary McKinnon, a British computer hacker now wanted for extradition to the U.S. for hacking into the Pentagon’s computer networks. According to this account, Mr. McKinnon justifies his actions on the grounds that “he is convinced that the United States government is withholding critical information …
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