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*** The universe is a major swap meet of varieties of energy.  Mechanical energy can be traded for heat and vice versa.  And so it goes for kinetic and…Read more

Let’s face it, there’s no market for what we write.  And even if there were, we wouldn’t know how to reach that market.  So, why do we write?  We’re…Read more

There are people who like to explain to other people how things work and there are people who like to invalidate other people’s explanations of how things work.  In…Read more

Idioms don’t tend to address sensitivities.  I should note that I have nothing against cats, having owned a few, although I prefer dogs.  I am certainly no expert at,…Read more

Last week my friend Ralph and I went out to lunch with the ladies in our high-flying group that he has described in a piece he read to us…Read more

To coordinate observations between coincident but relatively moving observers, one must convert the coordinates of the observed event into those of the other observer. Each observer is associated with…Read more

Sometimes, lying there and realizing — or thinking one is realizing — that one has been awake since the last time one checked the ticking clock, there is a…Read more

It has occurred to me during sleepless hours that our language is seriously lacking when it comes to expressing very real concepts.  For example, we speak of falling to…Read more

At the highest level of reality galaxy clusters have developed out of a uniform density universe, dense cores of hot plasma gases and galaxies result from the hydrostatic counter…Read more

I would like to clarify some of the background information and motivation for my investigating the ability of a plasma scattering to produce cosmological redshift.  It is the anomalies…Read more