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William Winslow
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Writer. Artist. Mountain child.

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I've been working on the new cover art for 'Beyond Tycho.'
Check it out:

#Scifi #Writing #Novels #Art #Books #BookArt #TraditionalArt #TheEONSeries #EONPart2
This article synopsizes some fascinating work out of the U. Of Leiden.

Information could be a temporal-cellular component of all reality, responsible for the arrow of time, dark matter and energy, and even gravity itself.

Information theory is getting deep!

#space #time #physics #weird #universe
Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Two of the greatest boxing photos of all time both involve late ringside photographer and legend Herb Scharfman (1911 - 1998).

First is Scharfman's epic shot of the real Rocky punching Jersey Joe. In the other more famous snap of Ali standing over Liston, he's visible between Ali's legs.
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#iconic
The two most iconic boxing photos of all time couldn’t be more different – and they reveal a hidden truth about the decisive moment
Two of the most famous frames in sports history: one the impact of a devastating punch; the other, the immediate aftermath. Proof that the decisive moment isn’t always the climax of the action
www.digitalcameraworld.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
"Hey Will, wherever do you get an idea to write about wandering through the desert?"

I finally got the nonfiction page up and running, just reposted this award winning travelogue from a few years back.

Give it a read:

#nonfiction #travelwriting #theology #Maroc #Sahara #waterinthedesert #Bluesky
One Thousand Years of Peace - williamwinslow.com
williamwinslow.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To me, the thing that's so silly about emergent physicalism is that it assumes more than panpsychism about the nature of reality. Yes, birds and people have different brains. But are trees really unconscious? Maybe if you watched an Aspen grove for a couple hundred years, you'd get a different idea.
Scientists Identify the Evolutionary “Purpose” of Consciousness
Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex awarene...
scitechdaily.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
AI (in the form of LLMs) will never be creative. It copies; it does not innovate.
A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity
A new study argues that the algorithms driving tools like ChatGPT impose a hard limit on originality. By prioritizing probable answers, these models are structurally confined to producing amateur-leve...
www.psypost.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I've been working on the new cover art for 'Beyond Tycho.'
Check it out:

#Scifi #Writing #Novels #Art #Books #BookArt #TraditionalArt #TheEONSeries #EONPart2
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A fascinating theory here about the nature of the observer in a topologically closed universe. Without such an observer, such a universe, paradoxically, can't even exist. There seems a requirement for information to be present on an observable boundary for the concept of information to have meaning.
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe | Quanta Magazine
Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions abo...
www.quantamagazine.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Gotta see this exhibit!

I've been a dino fan since childhood. The discovery of the K-T boundary changed science. Catastrophism beat gradualism in the scientific mind. The Deccan pits hypothesis succumbed to the horrors of Chicxulub.

Incidentally, Tycho may've been a broken-off sister object... fft
Walk through the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs with American Museum of Natural History's new 'Impact' exhibit
"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies."
www.space.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sometimes ideas for poems or songs or whatever just arrive to you in the middle of the night. Pow!

I scribbled thru some parts of this one, still in progress. It's intended to be a song but I've still yet to compose the music for it...

#poems #songs #poetry #songwriting #writingcommunity #Bluesky
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
They're finally snuffing out the 'standard candle.' It's an assumption in cosmology that all Type 1A supernovas are exactly the same. Without it, the age, distance and expansion rate of the observable universe will need to be recalibrated, and some of the Hubble tension should disappear.

#astronomy
Remarkable new study determines there is 'no evidence' of an accelerating universe
"Remarkable" findings from Yonsei University cast doubt on 'dark energy' theory and claim there is "no evidence" of an accelerating universe.
www.earth.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jamaica needs your help right now.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Susan and Jeff Bridges helping to bring back an old pano film classic, a Widelux redux?... Dude! That's so cool.

#photography #filmcamera #WideluxX #prototype #panos #TheDudeAbides
Jeff Bridges' WideluxX Revival Has Reached Prototype Stage and It's Beautiful
Panoramic dreams are becoming reality.
petapixel.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sometimes you got to break out the old records just to keep the dust from collecting. Dark Side was always one of my favorites...

I like vinyl because it lasts. To think, this thing was pressed a full 52 years ago now, yet it still sounds awesome.

#vinyl #darkside #originalalbum
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Working with kids on creative writing recently has reminded me: storytelling, at its heart, is a human to human sharing of language and meaning and experience.

No kind of imitative machine, AI or other, will ever be able to do that. It's a fundamentally cognitive act; it can't be faked.

#Writing
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Autumn is the spirit season. Someone once said it's when the veil between one world and another thins. A dying time, perhaps, but a sacred transition: when color and sunsets umber and burn, the light of heaven begins to stretch and days fade. After the last leaf is down, nature whispers "eternity."
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