May 2012
12 posts
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
We get to know Jessie Lamb against the background of a slow apocalypse, one which despite the death knell it may be sounding for the human race allows people to get on with the trivia of their lives for the time being. This sounds like a familiar concept but this is not the climate armageddon we’re sleepwalking into. Jessie has been born into a time where Maternal...
The Speed of Light
Time dilation when travelling at speeds approaching the speed of light is derived from what mathematically should happen given that the speed of light is a constant. As such, they start to sound nonsensical if the speed of the vehicle in the thought experiment in question approaches that of light - however these effects have been experimentally measured and as such are very real. Like quantum...
