Psionics

Learned a new word yesterday – “psionics” coined by author Jack Williamson. It describes the power of the mind, such as in the Dune series, the Foundation series, and Ender’s Game.

However, the power of the mind lost its popularity in sci-fi because it’s so difficult to prove scientifically. Darn, my sci-fi manuscript employs it.

Oh, I should add that in my humble opinion, just because we don’t understand something doesn’t make it any less real. It’s still a big part of future science! -fi.iNorsky

Cosmic Web

Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web (Scientific American journal): This graphic represents a slice of the spider-web-like structure of the Universe, called the “cosmic web”. These great filaments are made largely of dark matter located in the space between galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope probed the structure of intergalactic space to look for missing ordinary matter, called baryons, that is gravitationally attracted to the cosmic web. Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Hallman (University of Colorado, Boulder) #scienceR&D.iNorsky