: About Me

I was born in 1971 in Porterville, California, which is situated in the orange belt between Fresno and Bakersfield. Between the ages of 6 and 15, I lived in Libby, Montana, a tiny town in the Rocky Mountains up near the Canadian border. After moving back to California and graduating from Porterville High School, I earned an Associate's Degree from Porterville Community College.

Having little idea what to do next, in 1994 I enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Signals Intelligence Analyst (MOS 98C) and Arabic linguist. As an analyst, I worked in Fort Irwin, California, and then at Kunia, Hawaii. It was in Hawaii that I completed a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Chaminade University of Honolulu.My last enlisted assignment was as an instructor at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas.

Then, after eight and a half years as an enlisted man, I applied for Officer Candidate School, held in Fort Benning, Georgia, and graduated in the top 10% of my class as an Armor officer. It was in my Army Officer Basic Course that I wrote my first complete novel, a fantasy novel titled "The Call to Dragon's Rest," the first in a fantasy trilogy.

As an Armor officer, I served with the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, based in Buedingen, Germany. In 2003, I deployed to Iraq and commanded a tank platoon in Baghdad. After returning to Germany I served further as a tank platoon leader, and then as assistant intelligence and security officer and later as the primary intelligence and security officer (squadron S-2).

Unfortunately, developing medical problems caused me to be medically separated from the Army in 2007. In the intervening time, I have worked as a freelance writer, creating web content.

I am an avid reader and writer of speculative fiction. I also love role-playing games (the in-person, table-top type, not the computer variety), and have been playing and writing games since 1981. My interests are wide and varied, and include swordsmanship, martial arts, physics, biology, psychology, archeology, paleontology, and many other subjects.

My passion is ...

Science and religion, two sides of the human coin.

I know too much about ...

Too many topics to keep track of.

My parents always told me ...

The most important thing is treating everyone with respect.

My childhood ambition ...

To visit another planet.

Why I write ...

I enjoy taking people to the place my mind is.

My inspiration ...

Robert Heinlein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein.

Sciences > Physics Is time real or relative?

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Time is one of the great mysteries of science, and that is not because it is difficult to examine, like some distant star. Its elusiveness is due to its ubiquity in our lives. One way or another, time enters into almost every equation in science. Change cannot occur without time, therefore all processes depend on time. This makes it difficult to see the essence of time. However, if you step back, time is merely a different form of distance. We often consider the universe to be made up of particles, such as atoms, neutrons, etc. However, we can't observe particles or objects. The only thing...

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