Victor Grippi – The Atomic Writer

Hello Readers,

For those without a kindle, who have been asking for a printed version of The Ninth Cube, it’s now available on Amazon!

Paperback Edition: The Ninth Cube

Here is more of the literary review of my book:
“What starts out as a race for the Nobel Prize ends in a race to save the planet in this physics-packed techno-thriller.”

“Anyone who has a flair for the research of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan will appreciate Grippi’s use of physics throughout the novel…”

Kirkus Discoveries Review

Hello Readers,

Kirkus, the premier book review company, has just sent in their review of The Ninth Cube. The review states that readers who like the science of Hawking and Sagan will be pleased with this “…engaging read…” so scientifically plausible, it is more realistic than fiction.

“Anyone who has a flair for the research of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan will appreciate Grippi’s use of physics throughout the novel…”

Kirkus Discoveries Review

News Flash: Thanks to you, my readers, The Ninth Cube is now the 5th best selling kindle technothriller on Amazon! This is based on the current sales ranking on 8.18.08.

Let’s examine some of the scientific theories involved in the examination of time travel. Remember, a theory is based on current observations and usually includes a mathematical model that describes the claims of the theory.

A new theory has emerged that claims to answer many questions that string theory falls short in. It is called MDT, or Moving Dimensions Theory.

According to Dr. Ranger McCoy, “Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all
experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality.”

Let’s breakdown what we know so far:

RELATIVITY:

1) length contraction
2) time dilation
3) the equivalence of mass and energy
4) the constant velocity of light
5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source

QUANTUMN MECHANICS
1) action at a distance (quantum entanglement)
2) wave-particle duality
3) interference phenomena
4) EPR paradox

THERMODYNAMICS
1) Time’s arrow
2) Entropy

STRING THEORY’S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY
1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interpreted as many dimensions, each time it expands

THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES
1) wave/particle duality
2) time/space duality
3) energy/mass duality
4) E/B duality

GENERAL RELATIVITY
1) Gravitational redshift
2) Gravity waves
3) Gravitation attraction

THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND
1) quantum foam
2) the smearing of space and time at small distances
3) Hawking’s imaginary time

PARADOXES
1) MDT explains away Gödel’s Block Universe
2) MDT unfreezes time
3) Resolves Zeno’s Paradox

The Atomic Writer’s summary:
What I want you to get from this is that there are theories that do not rule out time travel. Travel in the forward direction is generally agreed without debate. However, travel back in time poses several problems that include a well known set of paradoxes. String theory, or MDT theory are attempts at rationalizing observations based on the advancing state of technology. As we peer deeper and deeper into the unknown, we sometimes have to throw out theories based on newly found data. New theories and mathematical models emerge to replace the old ones.

Einstein’s theory of relativity has stood the test of time for over a hundred years. Special relativity described the observable universe in a model called the space time continuum, replacing Newtonian theories that presented time as a linear entity stretching to infinity in both directions. Later, Einstein refined special relativity to include gravity, and this is called general relativity. Gravity is now described as warping or bending space/time and matter simply falls towards the mass that is creating the warp. A common analogy is placing a bowling ball on a mattress, the surface of the mattress depresses where the bowling ball sits. If you then take a baseball and roll it by the bowling ball, without touching it, you will see the baseball change course as if pulled towards the bowling ball. This is the core root of general relativity.

Einstein also discovered that time is based on how it is observed. To a person traveling at or close to the speed of light, time appears to move forward normally. To a stationary observer, however, time passes much much slower when compared to the person travelling at the speed of light. So if the traveler travelled for one year at the speed of light, the stationary observer would experience many years. Make sense?

Until next time…

Victor Grippi
The Atomic Writer

Hello Readers,

As we move closer to the print release of The Ninth Cube, I thought it would be nice to give away two free autographed copies – after it is available. If you go to my blog at The Atomic Writer and sign my guestbook, you will be automatically entered! That’s all you have to do.

My blog will also keep everyone informed on the progress of Volume 2 in the TimeLine Trilogy. Yes, The Ninth Cube is only the beginning. If Dr. Daniel Lamb only knew what he was getting himself into….

Take Care,
Victor Grippi

NASA’s Gamma Large Area Space Telescope has been operational now for 40 days, and has already detected 12 strong gamma ray bursts!

What if: these 12 bursts are from a dying star, that creates a supernova, or from a pulsar, orbiting twin stars, or ?

OR What if: these could be newly formed black holes, how about the opening of one end of a wormhole, or an advanced communication medium…

The GLAST satellite may provide proof of hawking radiation, emitted from an evaporating black hole. We have detected GRB’s for years, but NASA’s new instrument will offer more data about these mysterious cosmic events.

The gamma-ray bursts were detected by the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), one of two instruments on the spacecraft.

“We are thrilled to be detecting gamma-ray bursts so early in the mission. GLAST and the GBM are off to a great start!” said Charles “Chip” Meegan, GBM principal investigator at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. “The detectors are working well and we’re really pleased with how the instrument is working. That said, we’re using this checkout period to scrutinize the data coming down from the detectors and fine tune flight and ground software and our daily operational processes.”

Another part of the mission is the Gamma Ray Coordination Network. This system will report the GRB’s just seconds after detection to ground based systems. This will allow the event to be monitored by several instruments providing even greater study of the source and duration of these events.

Here is a graph of one of the detected bursts:

This graph depicts a gamma-ray burst captured by the GLAST Burst Monitor on July 23. This powerful burst lasted over 50 seconds and was captured by each of the instrument’s 14 detectors. Credit: NASA

“The whole team is really coming together and we’re in good shape to begin pouring over the 100 megabytes of data we’re receiving daily from the spacecraft.” said Meegan. “The most exciting part of the mission is still ahead when we, hopefully, begin to answer long-standing questions about how these fantastically powerful gamma-ray bursts are produced.”

Bookmark this site, and I will keep you informed with the latest information on the GLAST mission.

Until next time….

-Victor Grippi
The Atomic Writer
victor@atomicwriter.com