Or not. But we are either sure or almost sure depending on your standard of certainty that the Higgs Boson has been detected by CERN and therefore that we have evidence of the Higgs field, the theory that explains mass as a result of elements interaction with the Higgs field. PhD Comics has this very cool video explaining not only Higgs but several aspects of … Continue reading Higgs Boson was George Lucas’ first name for Han Solo
I met Aaron Diaz at SPX way back when Dresden Codak was a relatively new webcomic, one that in my mind still looked heavily influenced by the dearly departed A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Done. I bought a poster of the Atheist Heaven and Religious Hell comic from Aaron – which hangs next to a poster of ALILBTDID comic. But in rereading it … Continue reading Hobnobbin’ with Dresden Codak
Some webcomics I’m struck by how much a reread of a long stretch of archives — entire stories at a gulp — can change my perception of the project. Octopus Pie is one of those — I always liked it but I am not sure I got all of the characters the first read through. And then of course, it is much more reliant on … Continue reading Rereading Octopus Pie
I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson‘s 2132 so space and Mars is already on my mind. Robinson is probably best known for his Blue/Green/Red Mars trilogy. All of those books touch on terraforming Mars, the concept that we might alter the atmosphere — the entire planetary system — of Mars such that ultimately it could be inhabitable by humans. Here’s a video on the idea from … Continue reading 4th Planet from the Sun: Mars
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