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Higgs Boson Confirmed!

by storiesbywilliams on March 21, 2013 in News, Science and tagged albert einstein, CERN laboratory, CERN particle collider, electromagnetism, four basic forces of the universe, geneva switzerland, grand unifying theory, gravity, guage bosons, higgs boson, leptons, quantum theory, quarks, standard model, stephen hawking, strong nuclear forces, subatomic particle, the big bang, the universe, theory of relativity, weak nuclear forces

In July of 2012, scientists working for the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland announced that they believed they had found the elusive “God Particle” – aka. the Higgs Boson. In addition to ending a decades-long search, the discovery also solved one of the greatest riddles of the universe, confirming the Standard Model of particle physics […]

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Remembering Douglas Adams

by storiesbywilliams on March 12, 2013 in Authors, Books, Movies, News, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a trilogy in five parts, And Another Thing..., babel fish, bbc hitchhikers guide to the galaxy game, bbc radio, chaos theory, dirk gently's holistic detective agency, don't panic, douglas adam's 61st birthday, douglas adams, google doodle, Graham Chapman, heart of gold, infinite probability drive, Life the Universe and Everything, mark carwardine, monty python, monty python's flying circus, Mostly Harmless, quantum theory, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish., the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the long dark tea-time of the soul, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Yesterday was the birthday of the late, great science fiction writer and luminary known as Douglas Adams. Had he not passed away in 2001, at the age of forty-one, he would have been celebrating his sixty-first birthday. Best remembered for his series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Adams greatest accomplishment was arguably his ability […]

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Time Travel In Sci-Fi

by storiesbywilliams on August 30, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a christmas carol, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:, a rebel in time, a sound of thunder, alternate history, Audrey Niffenegger, bob cratchit, by his bootstraps, camelot, charles dickens, ebeneezer scrooge, eloi and morlocks, enders game, eternals, eternity, foundation, foundation series, guns of the south, h.g. wells, historical fiction, i robot, Isaac Asimov, jacob marley, king arthur, kurt vonnegut, mark twain, meridian, merlin, michael crichton, multiverse theory, outlander, pastwatch: the redemption of christopher columbus, quantum theory, Ray Bradbury, robert a heinlein, robot series, science fiction, sir mordred, slaughterhouse five, the civil war, the end of eternity, the time machine, the time travelers wife, the time traveller, the time travellers wife, time travel, timeline, tiny tim

Hey all. Have I said yet that it’s good to be back? Well, truth be told, it feels like I’ve only really got back into the swing of things in the past few days, and after a two week hiatus to boot. I also noticed that it’s been awhile since I’ve done a conceptual post, […]

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Cool Ships (volume V)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Books, Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Alien, arrakis, artificial hand, Babylon 5, baron harkonnen, Battlestar Galactica, colonial raptor, cool ships volume 5, cylon virus, cylon war, darth vader, delenn, duke leto atreides, Dune, Dune universe, earth alliance, earth force, earth-minbari war, ellen ripley, fly-by-wire, foldspace, freespace 2, FTL, guild heighliner, gunstar, heart of gold, holtzman engines, hospital ship, improbability drive, jones the cat, luke skywalker, LV-426, medical frigate, minbari cruiser, minbari federation, navigator, nebula-b frigate, nostromo, Paul Atreides, quantum theory, rebel alliance, sathanas juggernaut, shadow war, sharlin-class cruiser, sheridan, spice tanks, Star Wars, the black hole, the colussus, the cygnus, the deimos, the last starfighter, the nostromo, the shivans, Weyland Yutani, wireless, xenomorph, zaphod beeblebrox

Back again! More ships, more designs, more franchises too. Like I said last time, there’s just no limit when you get right down to it. And in the course of doing my homework on cool sci-fi concepts, I’ve found that there are hundreds of franchises out there that I’ve never even heard of before. Of […]

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