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Heat Death of the Universe

Its been a while since I did a science post so here goes. When I first heard about the ‘heat death’ of the universe, I was mildly upset. When very much younger, I wrote a story (actually, it started...

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Motion in Inflation

We stand on the escalator, travelling through space without actually moving. My mind wonders though its own dimension of reality as perception links with memory and insight. Motion without moving....

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A Letter to a UFOlogist

Oh dear. What was that video supposed to be? Was it supposed to be a serious investigation into UFOs and alien abductions? What utter nonsense. Badly made, poorly reported, utter hokum. Do you take...

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The Fiction Catalyst • The Fabric of the Cosmos

The Fiction Catalyst • The Fabric of the Cosmos Entry 007 • A New Year and a New Project While away at my partner’s family home for Christmas, I decided to take along some light reading. I’d started...

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Exhaustion

Exhaustion A Short Story by James FitzRoy To be or not to be a writer. It’s a new year, it’s time for something new, a change in direction. Or is it? Well, that’s what I keep telling myself. But as the...

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Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it...

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Leaving the Machine

Leaving the Machine Saying Goodbye to the Job I left my last job for a number of reasons but after a few months to recover from the terrors of the 9-to-5 career ladder, I’m beginning to appreciate what...

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Star Trek: Into Oblivion

Whatever Happened to Star Trek? Warning: Although I try not to, this essay does contain spoilers of Star Trek Into Darkness. I’m probably going to be hated for this but am I utterly alone in despising...

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The Scientist, Part I

“In 1960, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”, in which he stated that “it is...

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The Scientist, Part II

In Part I, I introduced the idea that science is important. I also showed the steady progression that science makes in pushing back the fog of incomprehension using the astronomer’s story as an...

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Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it...

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