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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s top experts on black holes, has written a paper stating there are no black holes.

The uncertainty of science: Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s top experts on black holes, has written a paper stating there are no black holes.

At least, there is no such thing as an event horizon, meaning that black holes are not what scientists have believed.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

4 comments

  • we need a time machine so that we can visit these areas in the cosmos, like black holes and star factory’s and other civilizations. The universe is so full of mystery.

  • wade

    Super condensed matter is in itself, just That. As far as Time , we measure it with days or clocks expressing hours on our planet in relation to orbital position and rotational effect .

  • Jwing

    Part of the problem is that we have confused science fiction with science (i.e. physics), and mixed in a pinch of the supernatural/supersition.

    I,too,enjoyed watching Yoda lift the Millenian Falcon out of the swamp, but I still don’t believe in ghosts, the yeti, UFO’s or magic healing crystals.

  • Edward

    Science (and the universe) sure does like to present us with mysteries. We have the mystery of the big bang (or however the universe began), the mystery of the big crunch (or however the universe ends), and now we have the mysterious black hole (which keeps being mysterious no matter how much we figure it out).

    That time machine idea of Joe’s is looking pretty good right now, but then again, we have the mystery of the time machine (is it possible, and how else do we explain some sub-atomic behaviors). *Sigh*

    Life sure was simpler when it was “turtles all the way down.”

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