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A Wakeful Thought about thoughts

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

Waking Thoughts

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

Space Occupancy of Baryonic Matter

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

Motivations for Universal ‘Space Occupancy’ Model

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

A Meaningful Dissertation on a Colorful Confusion

I’m afraid this may ramble a bit – demonstrating my level of confusion on this and related topics no doubt. So… first, a shout out to social media:  To…Read more

Let’s Hear it for Naïveté vs Sophistication.

So, I’ll go out on a limb and propound that naivety is as responsible for scientific discoveries as a smug reliance on book learning.  It’s a stretch, I give…Read more

Is the Universe ‘Evolving?’

After (one can no longer say ‘ever since’) the Copernican revolution in science, scientists came to accept that their research could have been done by anyone, anywhere in the…Read more

So when does “close enough for government work!” become a viable mathematical concept?

Every rational proper fraction has an eventually repeating decimal (which may terminate in zeros as a special case). So do I have two proper fractions? The first involves n…Read more

Quark Soup Recipes

That’s pretty much the party line.  Such statements presume a temperature (and time) when subatomic particle creation took place.  But the process is described in reverse order as if…Read more

The Inverse Square Law Rather than Glu(on) to Confine Up and Down Quarks

At a distance r away from a spherical charge distribution a force field will be present that is directly proportional to the total amount of charge q(r) contained within…Read more