Cosmology: Crackpots and Geniuses
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in cosmology | No Comments »Crackpots and geniuses are two words that describe people who have ideas on how the universe works. Back in 1998 I read a NY Times article that was entitled "Crackpots and Geniuses". They wrote about the pseudo scientists with little or no professional experience or ...
Massive variations in Space-time
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in cosmology, science | No Comments »Considering the length of time that the human abstract thinking mind will be in existence on Earth, ... as compared to the life time of our sun, ... our time in our space-time region is extremely minuscule. I believe variations in space-time are endless. Therefore ...
The Mind & the Cosmos
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »Grandpa thinks that the mind and the endless cosmos are the two most interesting and two of the most mysterious and difficult subjects for humans to comprehend. All the great authors of books on these two subjects admit the that ...
It’s up to you to figure it out
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in family | No Comments »Humans will never get the answers to life's greatest mysteries. If we did we would become omnipotent ... and you know that is never going to happen. God is the only one, considered by humans, as being omnipotent ... knowing ...
Happy Birthday Molly!
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in family | 1 Comment »What a pretty girl who has just turned five. Your mom and dad have taken you to a lot of wonderful places. Jennifer's 3rd birthday occurred while you were on your trip to Hawaii and I asked Jennie to try hard ...
Happy Birthday Sam!
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in family | No Comments »At age 14 I probably loved baseball as much as you do Sam. In the 3rd grade I began playing softball in the small asphalt play ground behind the school during recess and at lunch time. In 1940 I started following baseball ...
The Universe and the Bucket
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in cosmology, science | 2 Comments »Grandpa is reading "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene. I recommend it to you older kids who are planning to take physics in high school. It's an up-to-date account of theoretical physics written in colloquial language that you ...
The TV Election News … Where are the Charts & Graphs?
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in media | 1 Comment »OK kids, have you figured out whether you are a visual person or a verbal person. There are lots of tests to see if your right brain or left brain is dominant. I keep getting mixed results on those tests, ...
Happy Birthday Emma!
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in family | No Comments »How does it feel to be 4 years old? What is your earliest best memory Emma? You will come to realize grandpa is always asking questions? Did you now that grandma had an aunt Emma and grandpa also had an aunt ...
A Whole in Every Part [part III]
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in consciosness, cosmology, family | No Comments »Cosmologists called Einstein's 1936 strangest theory; "the closest thing we have to magic" Under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. Nothing is faster than the speed ...
A Whole in Every Part [part II]
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in cosmology, science | No Comments »Part II is about the very small world of Quantum Mechanics. Does grandpa really understand Maxwell's equations. Not really. But we can examine the very large world of gravity and relativity and the small world of quantum mechanics that the physicist/cosmologist/mathematicians ...
A Whole in Every Part [part I]
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in cosmology, science | No Comments »Part I is about Event Horizons. The Grand Unification Theory is an effort to write an equation that unifies the large seeable world with the small ... unseen world. I have used the expression "event horizon" as the barrier that ...