Tuesday, June 24, 2008
"Cut Off Their Heads"...
The debate over the (improving) situation in Iraq, the re-emerging conflict with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the dithering over Iran’s drive towards the bomb have contributed to the puplic’s difficulty in grasping the most important sub-text to many aspects of these events – the relentless march...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008
The Iran Dilemma Revisited...
I’ve been quite busy, having little time for writing or even reading, preventing me from visiting most of my favourite Bloggers. I also have not been paying much attention to the news, and clearly missed one of the most important statements made by a politicion recently. And no, it has nothing to do...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
A Brief Note on North American Health Care
Yesterday I posted a somewhat facetious item on Canadian health care in ‘Tidbits’, ( http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos367/548309 ) which brought some interesting and much appreciated responses. This is a huge topic, which doesn’t really belong into the category of ‘crazy’ stuff, because...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
It’s about Time…Part XVI
We have really come to the end of this series. It’ll be an end, but not a conclusion, because there can be no conclusion. That’s a conclusion, though of a different kind, that I arrived at recently, while I was away, because thinking about this series was the only kind of ‘work’ I took along, and I...
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
It’s about Time…Part XV
As I mentioned in the previous section, I must make some reference to quantum physics. I certainly won’t go into the ins and out of the Standard Model, but I must talk about some of its implications for all of this, because it grounds Barbour’s work, since he takes quantum physics seriously! And as...
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
It’s About Time...Part XIV
We have come to what I thought would be the last instalment of this series, but it won’t be, sorry. You'll just have to suffer through more of this stuff. Of course, you don't have to read it! Few do, lol. I had dithered over writing this part not just because of lack of time (and yes, I use that...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
It’s About Time…Part XIII
This will be the penultimate post in this series. Partly because of a lack of time, partly because I found it increasingly difficult encapsulate complicated matters within the confines of a post. What to put in? What to leave out? But for better or for worse, I shall soldier on to the end, which...
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Monday, April 7, 2008
It’s About Time…Part XII
I haven’t had much time to write (no pun intended), but I should really bring this series to a close. Like all unfinished business, it sits there in some corner of my mind and nags. I hate being nagged, so tonight I shall try to make some headway. The previous section ended on a sombre note, simply...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
It’s about Time…Part XI
I have withheld things from you, for several reasons. The first being that one can’t talk about everything at the same time. Another one is that sometimes things are annoyingly contradictory, or at least seemingly so; and finally, because some things are sad, to me at least… Point number one is...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
It’s about Time…Part X
We’re getting closer to the end of this oh-so-popular series. Only two more to come, I think. Today just a few more thoughts on our current understanding of the universe, and the affect that has on our understanding of spacetime. Some of this was mentioned before. For most of human history, we lived...
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