My Quantum Quandary: When Words Collide
This morning at the crack of dawn, I find myself sitting at my PC, ruminating over coffee about language, of all things. More specifically, as of late I’ve been wrestling with the problems I have been having with the language ...
Is Time Travel Possible?
I have been a science fiction fan since I was a child. One of my favorite science fiction genres is time travel. I used to love reading books and short stories that involved the ability to travel to the past ...
Is Time Dilation a Jedi Mind Trick?
I am always digging through reams of material, both written and video, looking for interesting tidbits about my favorite topics, one of which is the philosophy of space and time and accompanying it, physics. Here, I found a very useful ...
Mind. Blown. Emergence!
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night, removes the colors from our sight, red is grey and yellow, white, but we decide which is right, and which is an illusion. Moody Blues, “Days of Future Past” The bad weather has finally ...
Book Review: “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Logic of Consciousness”
[Please read Dr. Thomas’ first book, “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Physics of Consciousness” before reading this book, if at all possible. It’s not absolutely necessary, but hey, it’s only 99 cents!] I’m going to admit up front for this ...
Roses Aren’t Red and Violets Aren’t Blue, Believing That They Are Won’t Make It True!
You probably recognize the simple poem I slightly modified and turned into a title for this blog. It’s from an old English nursery rhyme that was something oft recited during my childhood and probably yours, too: “Roses are red, violets ...
Absolutely no absolutes!
I’m reading a lot these days. I’ve been totally ignoring my favorite fictional authors for quite a while and have been focused instead on a number of different authors who write about two topics of special interest to me: time ...
Introducing Dr. Andrew Thomas
I want to introduce you to an author that I discovered recently. His name is Andrew Thomas. He’s got a PhD in physics from a college in Wales, where he lives. He is not associated with any academic institutions, so ...
Some Thoughts on “The Big Picture”
Greetings! I’m reading my second book by cosmologist and physicist Sean Carroll. It is titled, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, written in 2010. The first book I read of his a while back ...