• Time

    What is time?  I’ve seen a few posts on the internet lately about “time.”  Questions have been raised about whether time exists or not, and what it is, and if […]

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  • What Should Science Fiction Do?

    I’m a science fiction writer.  While only a very few people have read any of my works, (mainly editors and critique group members), I do have wide-ranging opinions on the […]

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  • Where Are They? – Part 2

    In the previous entry in this series of blog posts about the possibility of alien life in our galaxy, and especially about such life visiting us here, I speculated about the […]

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  • Where Are They? Part 1

    This is likely to be the first of three postings on a topic that has intrigued me for several years—the prospect of intelligent life on other planets.  Enrico Fermi posed […]

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  • Big Bang Or Big Bounce?

    Back in February, 2017, an interesting article appeared in that month’s issue of Scientific American.  Written by Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Abraham Loeb, the authors presented some evidence […]

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  • Where Are You?

    The title of this post isn’t meant to ask where you are in a spatial location, but in terms of time.  Where are you—where are we all, for that matter—in the […]

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