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Time
Read more: TimeWhat 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 there is any substance to it. Some have suggested that time does not exist, that it is a figment of our imagination, or that we…
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What Should Science Fiction Do?
Read more: 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 subject and have presented them in this forum occasionally over the past several years. Science fiction can be a powerful medium for examining the human…
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Where Are They? – Part 2
Read more: Where Are They? – Part 2In 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 wide disparity between the knowledge we’ve obtained about the universe—which is substantial—and our ability to move around in that universe—which is miniscule. We’ve only just gotten…
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Where Are They? Part 1
Read more: Where Are They? Part 1This 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 his famous paradox, basically “Where are they?” in 1950. He was referring to the question of why highly intelligent, highly sophisticated visitors from another planet…
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Big Bang Or Big Bounce?
Read more: 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 for a “big bounce” in the life of our universe, rather than the much better known “big bang.” The universe as we know it is…
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Where Are You?
Read more: 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 life of this universe? I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. We all live on a rather attractive blue, white, green and brown…