Birth and Rebirth: The Universe Recycles

Before Darwin conceptualized natural selection, there were ideas of evolution circulating through Victorian society. The infamous Lamarck had ideas on evolution too, but they have since been rejected. It was believed possible that ancestral animals could, by deviation, give rise to new itinerant species. Itinerant species would then become separated by some environmental or sexually selective pressure, and the species’ would deviate and assume new, more adaptable forms. The replication of heredity is in the language of DNA, and in acknowledging this, we get a better view of how universes, daughters and progenitor universes, as they propagate themselves and recycle quantum information as though it were genetic. It must also follow that not all itinerant universes survive the replication. The general postulate of photospheric replication is modeled after successful iterations of expanding universes…

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Regress: The Universe as Matroyshka Doll

First of all, it may be a human injunction to impose beginnings and endings on the universe because we see lives and actions as having beginnings in time and an end in linear-following the event-time. When evolution by natural selection was proposed in 1859, it wasn’t widely accepted (though, reading it today, its arguments are as sound as those of Euclid.) The problem with this is that it does, again to man, diminish the spectacle that is man to more of the result of a cumulative process having taken place over millions of years, branching out into ever inclusive groups as one goes back in time…

The Chameleon’s Mirror, Prologue: The Artist’s Garden

Once there was an artist who lived on his own by the bay. He painted and play piano, the violin and wrote poetry, plays and novels. Yet none were good, or so he thought, and so everyone seemed to think. And, frustrated, he gave it up and went to war. After many years away from home, the war ended and he was discharged. Returning home by boat, with friends, they found a strange man on a lifeboat. His accent was peculiar and his manner of dress out of fashion by some hundred years. Gradually he gained their trust and friendship and revealed himself to be a genie. His story was most interesting, as they had all heard the story of a genie’s lamp, or some variation, and as the self-proclaimed genie pointed out, in all those tales, what did they ever really know about the genie, the magician who granted them fortune and fame?

      You’ve all heard the stories, the tales of princes and their wishes, and the genie who is there to grant them, but what of the genie, then?

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Physics:
26 May 2015 – A Brief History of History 

A Brief History of History

Note: this is the Forward ‘A Brief History of History’ from my 2014 non-fiction textbook Undressing Gaia – a History of Nature’s Law; it is an in depth look at some of the most important ideas and names in classical physics, covers the evolution of ideas towards what we think of them today, and looks at some of the men and women we have to thank for dedicating their lives to this age-old pursuit of knowing. It covers the development of physics over the course of 2000 years and ends with the discovery of quantum mechanics at the turn of the 20th century, as to be help us  

For the first 97% of our time on this planet, it doesn’t seem like we asked too many questions. It seems that we have inherited the God’s of old. For most of the history of our species, regardless of where we are born and live, we’re introduced to varying explanations of what was the reason or force behind the existence of the universe. These explanations make up the folklore that is found around the world. It is an established notion that wherever there is a group of people, living in isolation and autonomous amongst themselves, they will have a creation myth…

The Chameleon Mirror, Prologue: The Artist’s Garden

Once there was an artist who lived on his own by the bay. He painted and play piano, the violin and wrote poetry, plays and novels. Yet none were good, or so he thought, and so everyone seemed to think. And, frustrated, he gave it up and went to war. After many years away from home, the war ended and he was discharged. Returning home by boat, with friends, they found a strange man on a lifeboat. His accent was peculiar and his manner of dress out of fashion by some hundred years. Gradually he gained their trust and friendship and revealed himself to be a genie. His story was most interesting, as they had all heard the story of a genie’s lamp, or some variation, and as the self-proclaimed genie pointed out, in all those tales, what did they ever really know about the genie, the magician who granted them fortune and fame?

The genie’s story was remarkable, the most remarkable of tales…