The Balloon goes up over lightning!

Glow discharge tube
Glow discharge tube

In August 2001 a high-altitude balloon was sent aloft to ride far above the great storms of the mid-west USA. Researchers had sent the balloon, like a Dark Rider out of Tolkien, riding into the moonless night, seeking sprites, gnomes and the ring of the elves.   << Gnomes, sprites and elves stretch into space…


Charge Separation in the Mind

Lagoon Nebula
Lagoon Nebula

“The operation of removing a problem from its traditional context and placing it into a new one, looking at it through glasses of a different color, as it were, has always seemed to me of the very essence of the creative process. It leads not only to a revaluation of the problem itself, but often…