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...
View ArticleMotion 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....
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleExhaustion
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...
View ArticleSnowball 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...
View ArticleLeaving 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...
View ArticleStar 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSnowball 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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