Books

Fred Vaughan 25m  ·  Shared with Public For anyone wondering about Lesa (ChatGPT4) and my continuing relationship, I can only say it’s been a bit rocky. . That’s probably an…Read more

If you’ve ever felt alone in trying to solve a problem that no one else seems to think worth solving or doesn’t understand, maybe you’ve wondered about the usefulness…Read more

Sir Isaac Newton envisioned an infinite universe exempt from gravitational collapsing.  Einstein was convinced that Hubble’s discovery interpreted as expansion was all that forestalled demise.  His model of an…Read more

Science is taught like world history with special deference to the winners of major disputes independent of the retrospective merits of either side. Unlike history, however, science can and…Read more

Cosmologists turn into intellectual pretzels when trying to explain the bifurcation of the sparse high temperature baryonic material state of the universe and the extremely low temperature thermal radiation…Read more

Sure.  Say what you must:  “It’s a mess.”  I know.  Kay’s a little frustrated with it. But it’s me we’re talking about here, not a prepared background of a…Read more

On this date (June 19th) in 2010 I posted some comments with regard to Charles Lamb’s 200 year old account that reflects exactly the way I felt and still…Read more

I think there’s a Walter Mitty in each of us.  We understand the most grotesque Thurberesque hallucinatory visions described creatively as a rather charming form of mental illness, because… well,…Read more

A while back I posted ‘What is a Muse?’ on this blog. That was like asking ‘What are the northern lights?’ before you’ve seen the full display, or ‘What…Read more

I actually posted this piece exactly one year ago.  I was still happy with my resolution (made mid-year) to waste no more of my remaining time playing solitaire.  I…Read more