Writing for Torre

Part of the What Time? series, an exploration in science fiction.
The Twins Paradox is less of a paradox and more of a time puzzle originally stated by Einstein.
Puzzling Twins
Alice and Angela are identical twins born seconds apart on a shiny afternoon. Growing up, they do everything together including dressing alike. Their mother insists they wear [...]

Part of the What Time? series, an exploration in science fiction.
Relativity
Size is relative. Speed is relative. In my story, “Dunston Monster,” some of the characters refer to Sebastian as a giant while others just think he’s very big. Comparing to a tree, Sebastian is short. Scientist measure everything relative to something. A car travels 70 [...]

Part of the What Time? series, an exploration in science fiction.
Let us generalize a moment.
The Background
In the 17th century industrialization sprouted leading to 19th century railroad domination linking commerce across the map. Scheduling trains increased the need for time zones. Higher precision clocks allowed ships improved navigation across the sea. Clocks became important including today [...]

Time is the great assumption in science, a mystery. There is no scientific definition or accepted theory. Time has been the subject of philosophical debate for millennia, and all we have are vague notions, psychological feelings, stories, and an assumption about the passing seconds. And time is so much fun for fiction.
What is time?
This series [...]

These are foundational definitions for understanding science and science fiction stated here for the non-scientist. The most important concept here is that science theories are not facts.
Science
Science tries to explain the world around us in a way that we can understand. This applies primarily to phenomenon we observe indirectly like earthquakes and micro-organisms. We feel [...]

Use Magenta/Green 3D glasses to view the chess photograph or Red/Cyan 3D glasses to view the bike photograph. Click on an image for a larger view. 3D quality depends on your monitor’s color settings. The chess photo ghosts a little on my Macbook screen, but appears perfect on an external LCD.
Items list
1. Digital camera
2. Tripod [...]

In “Remember the Volcano,” I share the story of my first Mt. St. Helens blast area visit. Here are two of the photos compared to recent photos of the same locations. Notice the growth after 26 years.

The above photos look eastward at Mt. Adams where the 2009 photo is from a lower vantage point. In [...]

Lush greenery, fir and pine floated on the breeze. The paved road, needles speckling the edge, snaked through the forest. Sunlight filtered through the canopy between openings, bright glimpses of the mountain range. Signposts reminded drivers of the CB channel where the truck operators called out their position by mile post marker. A truck rumbled [...]