User:Wormulon/Stuff/Essays

I know the word "essay" has negative connotations, but this is more of an outlet for ideas which I will use in the Fiction Universe, as well as a place for the discussions and speculations I have with Ghelæ, GD12, Monet and other users on issues of humanity, science fiction, technology and subjects in science and philosophy.

My initial plan was to just post these on DeviantArt, but since I am not yet used to the text system there, I shall post them here first to produce the layout and images that I might use. It makes it easier for me to make changes. I will try to make this interesting and not dull, discussions here may form themes for upcoming fiction!

= 1. Fundamental = What is the physical world, why are the laws the way they are and how far do we have to go conceptually to understand them? Multiverse or Nultiverse?=

Dimension, time, inertia=

Limits of Emergence=



Technology review: Spacetime travel=

Technology review: Clarketechnology=

= 2. Earth = In a way, geology and planetary science is my main interest. It was world-building that attracted me to Spore and the fiction-universe. It is also the subject I've chosen to study in university. Earth is a mysterious place, it's incomplete record was a window into deep time that made 19th century geologists the first real cosmologists and indeed the Earth is nearly one-third the age of the cosmos. Stranger still, it contains living processes and the most complicated things we know about; ourselves, who might for all we know; be the only inhabitants of the cosmos seeking knowledge. Finally, it's early conditions and deep interior contains many unknowns. Earth's mysterious inner mechanisms=

Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf 'stars'=

Move to multicellular life=

Mineralogy and abiogenesis (origin of life)=



Uncovering Hidden Landscapes: The Roaches=

= 3. Philosophy = Subjects of the philosophy of knowledge and mind, and also some personal views on Eastern Philosophy.

Pie in the sky=

Three Categories of Fortean anomalies=

My mentations on the nature of magic=