Which came first, lack of infrastructure to handle a pandemic like COVID-19, or the COVID-19 pandemic? I can't think of a more cogent question today. Virtually everything today that isn't "working" well is being blamed on COVID-19, and, well, maybe to some extent that's true. COVID-19 is the spark that ignited interest in all the failings of our current infrastructures from politics, to government, economics, transportation, education, social services (my furloughed partner has been waiting f...

Many would say that a computational "bit" is a single unit of information. It might, however, be more correct to say that a contemporary computational "bit" can represent a single datum, while a combination of bits can represent a single unit of information. For example, consider the number "1" (as opposed to the number "0"). In essence, it represents a numerical datum that can be mathematically manipulated, but doesn't, as such, represent anything beyond that. However, by adding "car," it be...

In an attempt to calm down after the craziness of the presidential election, I pulled out my telescope and directed it south over Honolulu looking early evening for Jupiter and Saturn. The night air is usually humid, saturated with diffused light from the city, and infused with light from a tropical moon, but last night was the exception. It was cool, dry and I was able to catch Saturn as clear as I've ever seen it, with my little Celestron 114 with Baader Planetarium Hyperion Mark III Zoom 2...

While scoping out thriller QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) with A. G. Hayes, it became clear that, in this increasingly explicit, business-oriented world, for plausibility's sake I would need to include something most thriller's don't: The dark world of international financing. Big, dark money, since we were talking regional, possibly even global cyberwarfare. Big, dark, laundered money that couldn't be traced, all of which brought me to Bitcoins.

I just wanted you to know that my thriller, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) co-authored by A. G. Hayes, and most other Savant Books and Publications will be going on PRE-HOLIDAY SALE starting 15 October 2016 (details in press release at
https://www.prlog.org/12592572) in both softcover and eBook formats! 

Sincerely,

Raymond Gaynor

Award-winning co-author of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016)

In physics (there's that "P" word that often causes young students to shudder), the unending search continues for the "fundamental building blocks" of everything that exists. At present, there are twelve such building blocks called quarks. In an "aha" moment, I experienced the world in two apple pies I handmade last night and a beach photo sitting not far from them. 

 

Quarks come in six "flavors," up, down, top, bottom, strange and charmed. These come in two forms referred to as matter and a...

In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), A. G. Hayes and I introduce the Quantum Death Machine, a theoretical weapon not so much of mass destruction (WMD) as of mass infrastructure interference (WMII). In this new scenario, the objective isn't to destroy an enemy so much as paralyze it, allowing the aggressor to acquire all its resources intact. Our Quantum Death Machine is based on some of the emerging characteristics of theoretical #quantum physics and it's overarching #M-Superstring Theory. in the ...

In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), Cerebrus Agents Koski and Falk are challenged with facing and defeating a kvantovaya mashina smerti or Quantum Death Machine (QDM) being used to bring the United States and all of the Americas to their knees. But is the alleged QDM a simple writer's MacGuffin or is it more substantial? Could it really happen? 

I believe the answer is "yes," which, I hope, makes this techno-thriller even more intensely gripping.