The Science and Questions of my Fiction
Guiding electricity with Sound
I am not a superstitious person nor do I believe in predestination, and yet, how cannot I not chuckle with disbelief and shake my head when I fall upon something in the present that speaks to a decision I made in the past when I was unaware of what the future might...
Acoustic levitation – another of the powers in Conquerors of K’Tara?
What wouldn’t we give to be able to move an object at a distance with a mere…thought. This ability may never be achievable…unless one considers moving objects using a mind/computer interface to direct…an acoustic levitator an acceptable compromise. And yet, Lux...
Rocks can store and release heat and–in my world–power hot “magical” contraptions
How strange and thoroughly surprising: In the just-released Book 3 of Conquerors of K'Tara, Darkness Gains, I wrote a scene where the Umbra shares a Zebulonian technology with his Yeltcheki contacts in exchange for their ships. This technology is seen as magical by...
Will we still be Humans?
You may or may not know that there exists an international philosophical movement called Transhumanism, which argues for the transformation of humanity through the adoption of advanced existing or yet-to-be-developed technologies in order to bring about our...
Will the development and consumption of synthetic meats save us and the planet?
Foreword: You might wonder, and rightly so, why this topic is in any way related to my fiction. But it is, although in a very indirect manner. Still, the topic is most important, and because I am a biologist, I wished to discuss it when I heard about Impossible...
Can we prepare for the consequences of living potentially eternal lives?
It is a desire as old as humanity to be able to live forever. Our forefathers exalted eternal life as a gift that could be granted to the faithful or to the pure, and we continue to celebrate and even revere the long-lived; we exalt them in Kung-Fu movies as we do in...
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