Scientific method refers to the body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge-Wikipedia The Scientific Method is the process of getting the same results from the same input-in predictable, repeatable ways. This is the basis of good, old fashioned Empirical Science. The kind of stuff that Galileo was doing when he was dropping hammers out of windows to see how fast they hit the ground. But like logic and reasoning, The Scientific Method just ain’t what it used to be. The Scientific Method is now so well known that anyone can apply it…
Category: thinking
About that book I’m writing. . .
Long dark months ago when I started this blog I mentioned that I was writing a new novel. A bit of boffo sci-fi in the near future, end of the world as we know, how will humankind ever survive kind of thing. Well, I am still writing it, but very, very slowly. It is a bit, well, bad. I have fallen into the greatest of all traps and let myself do little more than copy the best bits out of every story I have ever read and paste them together. This is not always a bad thing. The Matrix was…
Out of the Nowhere
One of my heroes is a curmudgeonly fellow named Harlan Ellison. He is famous for ranting and raving and occasionally writing some pretty damned good sci fi, or SF as he might prefer it to be called. Once upon a time he was on about Video Games. He called them time sinks, said they were a waste of time, that you could be doing something, anything, better than playing video games. There is that feeling about blogs as well.And yet.Nothing pains the writer so much as never being published. As never seeing a byline or buying up all the copies…