07/27/2018

Science fiction and fantasy books often share shelf space in both physical and electronic book stores. I’ve never quite understood why. Okay, I see that both genres involve places, people and fantastic events that are beyond our current reality. Both genres introduce the reader to creatures that don’t exist in our world or the story dives headfirst into an entirely new world. So yes, there are similarities, mostly in settings and characters. But that’s where the similarity ends. In my opinion,

06/30/2018

Imagine the Big Bang. What would it have “looked like”? A gigantic fireball? The most colossal fireworks explosion you’ve ever seen? A blinding flash of light? None of those comparisons come close, but hey, we’re only human. We have nothing in our world that compares to an event that couldn’t possibly have been “seen”. After all, at the moment of creation, even photons didn’t exist (not to mention eyeballs). Thus, any drawing of a cataclysmic explosion is not even close to what happened in the

05/27/2018

I’m a scientific tourist. Regardless of where I travel, I add science to the itinerary (often with full support from my wife). We visit observatories, laboratories and other famous places of science, including scientist’s homes. While planning a trip to Ireland, I was surprised to learn I’ll be staying just around the corner from where Erwin Schrödinger lived when he led the department of physics at Trinity College in Dublin. Cool, let’s go! Most people know the name Schrödinger from the