Once personal focus changes, finding an answer to whatever is sought loses its obsessiveness, frequently suggesting another path with additional questions that redefine the search. Where the quest leads, perhaps to an insight or a destination just out of reach, depends on how the concept of Infinity is interpreted. Although physical laws are viewed as [...]

“A lot of things to know even if there were some credible theories to invent a device to transport me back into the distant past, perhaps to the birth of philosophy when it was  discussed over a feast of wild fowl, grapes, wine and cheese, assuming I could eat the sustenance safely without getting sick [...]

Socrates left no written record of his teachings, as far as we know. His students’ words are the only way to assess his theories of knowledge or lack of, “I know nothing except the facts of my ignorance.” An apt description to characterize all that is unknown by a scholar of his stature. Implicit within [...]

Although the Sub-Spacial Hologram sounds like a creation of Star Trek, displaced by a generation or two, in fact, it is not. Holographic images appear in three dimensions, a manipulation of the senses to perceive depth that binocular vision allows. If the five senses could be fooled into believing that what isn’t there, is, then [...]

Every full moon, somewhere on the plains of the vast Gobi Desert of  Mongolia, Herb, the shrub would appear. His presence was always accompanied by great fanfare, although he was often confused for a common tumbling Tumbleweed. Animals would seek council from wise old Herb. Even the migrating birds would turn and follow the path [...]