Month: January 2018
Navigating Hyperspace
Yes, I’m still working my way through Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension . Full disclosure requires me to tell you that while I can easily grasp the higher concepts and especially appreciate the human aspects of the minds that generate them, the…
Hyperspace and the Snows of Charleston
Okay, so I’ve been reading Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension and it got me to thinking about applications of the fifth dimension to my fiction. I did touch on the idea of parallel universes in Any Tomorrow, but I thought…
The Sin of Complicity — FDR, Auschwitz, and the Lilliput Troupe
The world is so much clearer in hindsight. That’s why historians practice what’s called the “fifty-year rule”. The rule is a tacit acknowledgment that it is virtually impossible to judge history objectively until the consequences of historical events have played out and been realized. The downside to this however, is…