by G.L. Breedon | Nov 21, 2012 | Ideas, Philosophy, Science
My wife and I were watching a very interesting documentary the other night called Surviving Progress. It’s a fascinating film about the effects of rapidly changing technology and culture on our societies and minds. One of the more frightening things the film...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 4, 2012 | History, Science, Space
I’ve been reading James Michner’s novel Space and it’s left me wondering about the future of human space exploration – at least during the remaining decades of my expected lifespan. The novel is a fictional telling of the history of space flight from the V2 rockets at...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 23, 2012 | Ideas, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality
Some of the things I’ve been reading lately got me thinking about aliens and spirituality. I know that sounds weird. I’ll explain. I read an article recently that suggest there may be far more planets around stars than previously assumed. More solid (i.e. earth-like)...
by G.L. Breedon | Apr 11, 2012 | History, Ideas, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Spirituality
(Between my day job and trying to finish the final proof of Summer’s Cauldron to get it published by the end of the month, this has become a very busy week. Because I’m also in the early stages of editing The Chrysalis Age (now called The Alchemy of World and Soul)...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 31, 2012 | Fantasy, Philosophy, Science, Science Fiction
Last week there was a great interview in The Atlantic with Professor Tim Maudlin, who teaches the philosophy of physics at New York University. It’s a really interesting interview and it got me to thinking a number of things all at once. The first thing it brought...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 18, 2012 | History, Science, Science Fiction
A few days ago I was looking through my old computer files for the stage play version of a screen play I wrote back in the 90s. I couldn’t find the play (seems it is lost on some 3.5” floppy disk), but I did come across something I had written in 1996 that seemed like...
