Well, I’m standing in the midst of my 5th year wedding anniversary, and I thought it sensible to send a note forward another five years. (It seems a nice increment for several reasons… not the least of which is our digits. *grin*) We’re just hours from a renewal of our wedding vows downtown at a Las Vegas-style Strip-front […]
Read More Timestream Post: A note from 03/17/2012In the spirit of this experiment, I send this message half-a-decade into the future. (Truthfully, I hope to positively litter the digital timestream with notes, showing that cyberspace may not only connect us through space, but also through time.) First, my greeting: Hello, 2016! This is a year made nearly famous by films such as […]
Read More Timestream Post: A note from 01.07.2011Well, as a follow-up to a timestream post sent a little more than a year ago, I’m writing today to ask the future about the ultimate merits and/or penalties of having engaged in the National Geographic television show “Chasing UFOs,” which as it would turn out is a great deal less scientific than I’d originally hoped/been […]
Read More Jumping the Timestream: Post from 07/25/2012Greetings, all. Today I’m attempting a different, largely pictographic approach to demystifying the concept of “radiation” for the layperson. Despite the hype, radiation is a natural part of our planet’s, solar system’s, and galaxy’s environment, and one that our biology is equipped to mitigate at ordinary intensities. It’s all actually surprisingly straightforward. So, without further ado, here […]
Read More Nuclear and Atomic Radiation Concepts Pictographically DemystifiedIn a previous, fairly soft-content post, I mused about the possibility of the existence of a logarithmic pattern in history that relates, in a predictable way, the subjective perceptions of technology within a civilization to their pace of technological advancement. (In a sort of tongue-in-cheek gesture, I called it the McGee Scale of technological advancement.) At […]
Read More Exploring a Logarithmic Temporal Technology ScaleGreetings from the past! In this case, the date is July 19, 2011, and I’ve just returned from the first of a two-day assessment of a radiological laboratory outside of Charleston, South Carolina. While I’m supposed to be knee-deep in schoolwork, I’ve found a little extra time to continue this a-chronistic endeavor. When shall I […]
Read More Timestream Post: A note from 07.19.2011Space Really Isn’t that Far Away A quick note today on two thoughts resulting from the same image (above). Taken with my phone while pressed against the starboard-side window during a recent cross-country flight, (I’ve been doing a lot of flying lately), the first thing you’ll probably notice about this picture is that I’ve inverted […]
Read More Wonders of Flight and Patterns in TimeI’m writing today one year into the future because I can’t stand not knowing what’s going to happen in the next few hours. (Strange, I realize, but I can’t just publicly ask my future self in a few hours due to contract obligations relating to the answer… so I have to send this far enough […]
Read More Jumping the Timestream: A Note from 07.20.2011A note today on something that is implicit in many of the popular treatments of time travel that I’d like to make explicit. Namely, I’d like to explore the answer to the question: Presuming backward-and-forward time travel to be possible, how could we communicate with those from different times? This is something that actually comes up […]
Read More Science as the language of time-travelersA bit of a long-winded digression today, but as a physical scientist at heart I can’t help myself. I’m riled. (Riled to the point of considering expanding the rant to follow into an article submission to the journal Ground Water or perhaps Arid Environments…) Allow me to explain. Industry vs. Academia First, for those who […]
Read More Forward Backward Thinking: Pipelines and Deep Time
Chronicles of an Atomic Astrowright 