A morning that suggests an answer At first light, the lake keeps its breath. Mist hangs inches above the surface. A beaver’s head carves an ever expanding “V,” a reminder that life plows on, above and below the surface. If you listen long enough, the past begins to speak without raising its voice. A terrace …
Category: Blog Tags: coherence, five-needle pines, general relativity, gratitude, gravitational fields, humility, negative energy, quantum mechanics, space time, thresholds, time archives, time dilation, time travel, time travel portals, wormholes
I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …
Category: Blog Tags: Amberrat, bristlecone pine, Great Basin, House Range, Ice Age, Lake Bonneville, mammoth, packrat, Radiocarbon dating, sabertooth cat, time travel, tree-ring, woodrat midden
A morning lesson that wasn’t in the syllabus I once watched a lake breathe. It didn’t seem to be this century’s water; it carried a colder vocabulary—mist that became a shield of frost while simultaneously amplifying the call of coyotes from a distant hillside. If you stood where I stood and let the air settle, …
Tag: time travel
The Real Science Behind Fictional Time Portals
Posted: February 23, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
Leave a Comment
A morning that suggests an answer At first light, the lake keeps its breath. Mist hangs inches above the surface. A beaver’s head carves an ever expanding “V,” a reminder that life plows on, above and below the surface. If you listen long enough, the past begins to speak without raising its voice. A terrace …
Category: Blog Tags: coherence, five-needle pines, general relativity, gratitude, gravitational fields, humility, negative energy, quantum mechanics, space time, thresholds, time archives, time dilation, time travel, time travel portals, wormholes
What If You Could Time Travel to the Ice Age? Lessons from An Untimely Journey
Posted: February 23, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
Leave a Comment
I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …
Category: Blog Tags: Amberrat, bristlecone pine, Great Basin, House Range, Ice Age, Lake Bonneville, mammoth, packrat, Radiocarbon dating, sabertooth cat, time travel, tree-ring, woodrat midden
Paleo Science Meets Fiction: How An Untimely Journey Teaches Earth History
Posted: February 7, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
Leave a Comment
A morning lesson that wasn’t in the syllabus I once watched a lake breathe. It didn’t seem to be this century’s water; it carried a colder vocabulary—mist that became a shield of frost while simultaneously amplifying the call of coyotes from a distant hillside. If you stood where I stood and let the air settle, …
Category: Blog Tags: experencial learning, faith and empiricism, five-needle pines, Great Basin, Ice Age, Pleistocene, Radiocarbon dating, rivers and time, time travel, woodrat midden