“The universe is filled with Magical Things, patiently waiting for your wits to grow sharper” – Eden Philpotts, English Author (1862-1960)
Some of you know that for the past couple of months I have been ‘laser focused’ (I actually hate that expression, but it does seem to express the ADHD way I go at some things) on the presentation I delivered to The Cosmic Summit on Saturday June 15. I have to admit that being part […]
… at least, not directly. This one is more about Oppenheimer – the epic Christopher Nolan movie released last week as half of the the Barbieheimer Cultural Zeitgeist of the Summer of 23. I saw the movie last week and will see it again next week in IMAX. I don’t really think the IMAX treatment will
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:
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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
