Scott C Lillard
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Father, Husband, Physicist, Award-Winning Composer and Musician
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Dilation
According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, an observer traveling with great velocity will experience less time passage than an observer traveling with little or no velocity. This phenomenon is called time dilation, and is famously exemplified by the “twin paradox.” The thought experiment sends a young astronaut into space at near light speed while his twin brother stays on Earth. When the first twin returns, he has barely aged at all; he is astonished to find that his brother, who has not experienced time dilation due to great speed, is very old. To travel through interstellar space would be to outlive everyone you know. It would also be, quite possibly, not to live at all.
By Scott C Lillard3 years ago in Fiction
The Last Cardinal
The tour had been quite boring. Quin had only gone because Stevie was such a big fan. But Stevie was gone; the long line and dull drone of the guide could serve no purpose but a flash of nostalgia. It didn’t even manage that, despite the phrases that seemed to be lifted directly from Stevie’s ramblings. Maybe all fans talked that way. Quin still couldn’t see what it was in this author’s writing that was so interesting. A bunch of mid-20th century conspiracy theories with some superficial romance and cliché action. Quin felt the rest of the land around the cabin, which was at least alive and changing, full of grass and trees and birds and squirrels, to be much more compelling. This is what she told herself, anyway, despite not being an outdoorsy person at all. But that spirit of adventure, mystery, and intrigue that had so richly emanated from Stevie’s aura was, perhaps, what brought Quin to the one-room museum now dedicated to the Author, Stevie’s favorite.
By Scott C Lillard5 years ago in Humans
