Black Holes
Black holes were foreseen in 1783, John Michell postulated that an invisible star could be massive enough to trap light, so called Dark Stars. The idea, expressed only in a Royal Society letter, remained largely unconsidered for a decade. In 1798, Henry Cavendish,...
Breaking The Great Silence
Cosmologists often speak of The Great Silence. If the prospects for extraterrestrial life are so high in the vastness of the Universe, why aren’t we hearing anything from any of our neighbors? At the risk of sounding an unwarranted note of paranoia, it is possible our...
The Vast Unknown
In olden days, the oceans were the vast unknowns. But gradually, we have come to realize that all the oceans are really just one large Sea with which we are becoming more and more familiar. So, in our never-ending quest to know the unknown, we have also turned our...
Future Net
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1863? In 2008, the NAS founded the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The NAS’s involvement helps ensure fiction that educates, inspires, and predicts the future of our...
The Great Filter
In the 1990’s the economist and futurist Robin Hanson coined the phrase The Great Filter as a speculative answer to the Fermi Paradox, the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing in our vast universe and the...
Sentience and Sapience
The debate about the future of Digitized Intelligence often incorrectly centers on the question of Sentience. For the record, Sentience is defined in terms of feelings, perceptions, and emotions, attributes that even the lowliest of animals demonstrably have and that...
Time Travel Update Two
Earth is constantly on the move in multiple ways. Here are the four primary motions: Rotation – Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours, giving us day and night. Revolution – Earth orbits the Sun once a year, responsible for our seasons. Galactic Motion – Our...
Time Travel Update
We Time-Travel all the time. No joke. Allow me to explain. The theoretical plausibility of Time Travel was developed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. Since 1905, the compaction or expansion of Time has been factually verified in three or four ways. Perhaps the most...
3000 Dot 09
Mostly we live in the past or in the all-consuming now. We are wasting our time if we are trying to recreate a past that never really existed. We have bigger things to think about! It’s time to pay more attention to our future. Quoting Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google,...
Galileo
In the early 1600’s Galileo Galilei, with help from his improved telescope and his predecessor, Copernicus, proved that our Earth revolved on its axis and also revolved around the Sun. He was not adequately rewarded for his meticulously accurate scientific...