(a continuation of My Moment of Fame and Shame) I headed up to Perry Sikes’ office in mahogany row the morning after the phone call that had rescued me…Read more
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My roles in every production I’ve ever been associated with have been quite minor. And, yeah, I know. That’s what they all say when the shit hits the fan.…Read more
Whether ‘stars on their belly’ or a prime on ‘the other’ observers’ locations in space and time draws an unnecessary distinction that leads to categorical errors and bad thinking. …Read more
Let’s face it, it wasn’t measured independently here and on Andromeda or in any other distant galaxy. And its value varies widely even here on earth, depending on whether…Read more
Her in the US March Madness is upon us. Not that its onset is anything new. But we are about to determine who is the best college basketball team…Read more
_____________________ (I’ve been looking through my book ‘Aberrations of Relativity’ (C) 2008, where I found this sci fi story that I wrote back then. The imminence of war, as is…Read more
If one were to consider all evidence for the supposed time dilation, it would fall into a general category of alterations in rates associated with spontaneous state transitions between…Read more
It’s an intriguing question, but like so many such questions, we’re not quite sure what an answer should even look like — or sound like. Carlo Rovelli began his…Read more
The essence of the speed of light being the same for every observer is that the separation of the source of radiation and the observer at the time light…Read more
In his initial paper Einstein specifically made the point that relativity was largely required to coordinate the observations made by relatively moving observers to accommodate covariant formulations of universally…Read more