It’s that time of the year again to set our clock’s one hour ahead for daylight saving time beginning Sunday at 2 a.m. Although we’ll lose an hour of sleep, we’ll have one more hour of sunlight at the end of the day to enjoy the North Coast. In 2018, California voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition […]
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The 12-Second Life
Human lives generally last for 2 billion to 3 billion seconds; the universe is nearly 14 billion years old. Looking at those two statements on my laptop, I feel slightly giddy. I have a faint whiff of what the first statement means and very little understanding of the second. If you feel the same, here’s […]
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Mirror Universes
For nearly 100 years, the idea of a “Big Bang” birthing our universe has been the leading cosmological model. In the 1920s, Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann and later Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître derived the notion of an expanding universe based on Einstein’s 1915 General Theory of Relativity. Extrapolating backwards in time, expansion implies an infinitely […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Perception of Time
Considering how the world is versus our perception of it is interesting. Take this photograph. What do you see in it? Perhaps give yourself a moment and label all the things you find in it. You could describe the image with all of the thousand words a picture is due, but yet miss entirely some […]