the Wood between Worlds

I just finished watching what is available of Stranger Things Season 4, and planning to watch the rest tonight.  I've been meaning to co...

There are at least hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of people around the world who were shocked to hear that Nelson Mandela died r...

In case you aren't familiar with it the Voynich Manuscript  (pictured at left) is currently one of the bigger linguistic mysteries out...

It pays sometimes to ask yourself the question, what would change my mind?  To what extent could my mind be changed?  What alternatives wou...

Two years ago, I wrote a post about one of the icons of my childhood, the Berenstein Bears.  Except, as I learned, they aren't called ...

Tales of characters finding themselves hundreds of years in the past or the future are as old as the human imagination.  In recent ye...

I have become accustomed to using the word "anti-paradox" to describe a particular kind of time travel oddity.  I first encounter...

The following video about sums up the way most people think of the Time Turners. Why don't you just use them to travel back and kil...

This is a lesson in statistics and probability, as applied to the popular Dungeons and Dragons role playing game.  I'm having troub...

I recently stumbled on to a web comic called Blindsprings , after seeing a banner ad for it.  Let me take this time to recommend it to you....

To say that a particle has "spin 1/2" is to say that it must be rotated through 720 degrees before it can return to its original...

Physics has known for a long time how to build a time machine .  The possibility in a real spacetime geometry was first noted by Van Stocku...

I stumbled upon an article a few months ago that I've been meaning to blog for a while and never got around to. The original article ...

Solidity is an illusion. You may or may not already know this.  Matter is mostly empty space: when you smack your hand against a table, wh...

I have recently acquired an item of rare wonder and power.  An artifact of legend, forged in a mythical age.  I am now the owner of the Bott...