On a clear night you may find yourself gazing upwards, admiring the beauty of all the small specks of light which are strewn across the sky. Imagine that on this night, the moon is fully visible and captures your attention….
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Time travel is not only possible, it is commonplace. We are all travelers in time at the speed of exactly one second per second. Of course, we can only travel in one direction, but that is the way it should…
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To adress the question of time we must approach it from a perspective external to our physical reality. Our physical reality exists within defined limits of perception that are contained within the five senses that allow us to perceive time…
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Modern aircraft, particularly passenger jets, have a number of inbuilt or on-board features to protect them from damage due to lightening strikes. The first and most useful piece of equipment is called the Pilot. The pilot and a weatherman back…
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THAT WHICH PASSES WITH SYMBOLS A few days ago, I quietly acknowledged my 49th birthday. I, the me, have been in this life for 49 years. My internal clock says so. As I sit here, in this library, I am…
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The Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE) is one of four measurement processes launched with the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission for NASA, engineered and provided by the University of Colorado on January 25, 2003. This specialized equipment…
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Time travel has been puzzling the human mind for ages. You can find hints and related concepts in writings and stories as far back in time as the Indian Mahabharata and the Greek myth of Oedipus. One could say that…
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UNDER THE SUNTime is a runaway train… Here today and gone tomorrow. Somebody else’s all over this planet in what they fit into that space in their world. Go west and you go backward from the International Date Line. Go…
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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are part of the Local Group cluster of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, but they are not bound gravitationally to the Milky Way. They can be found in the southern constellation Mensa. Both…
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The writer is of the opinion that time travel, as envisaged in the old movie “Time Machine’ or in the ever popular “Dr Who” series on television, is not possible. Science excludes the possibility of time travel for two reasons:…
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