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Dr. Campbell

Here I am with one of my heroes - physicist Dr. Tom Campbell (on the right.) Dr. Campbell discovered the answer to two of the most important mysteries that have baffled physicists for almost a century - why is the speed of light a maximum constant and why did the famous "Double Slit" experiment in the 1920's show that consciousness was a determining factor in whether light appeared as a wave or particle?

Not only did the Double Slit experiment give rise to the new physics of Quantum Mechanics, it forced Einstein, Baum and other top physicists to realize that reality was created by consciousness. However, they were at a loss to explain why or how consciousness was involved in the process. So it's a remarkable accomplishment by Dr. Campbell to discover the answer, but it's a shame that Dr. Einstein and Dr. Baum aren't alive to get the answer to the question that plagued them for the rest of their lives.

As the Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene P. Wigner said, "It will remain remarkable, in what ever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality."

 
Here are a couple of people who grew up in Japan standing at the entrance to Himeji Castle. The fact that Kim is a native speaker was incredibly helpful during our recent trip to Japan.
Himeji Castle is the only one from the samurai era that was completely undamaged by bombing during World War II.
Since part of our trip involved researching behind the scenes operations at Japan Airlines, I was given the rare honor of taking off from and landing at Tokyo's Narita airptort in a JAL 747 flight simulator.
Japan Airlines is incredibly safety conscious. All cabin crew members are givien yearly refresher training in various emergency procedures. Here's Kim participating in a water landing drill.
August 2008
Mt. Adams

I went to a ranch at the foot of Mt. Adams in Washington state for a week of solitude to do some writing. While at the ranch, which has a reputation for being a UFO hotspot, I was very interested to see some strange objects flying in the night skies above the mountain. I don't know if they were "ours" or "theirs", but as someone who has briefly piloted a few airplanes (civilian and military) and ridden in a lot more, I can say that the objects behaved differently from any publicly known craft!

The day before I left the ranch, a fire broke out on the mountain. It was particularly sad to me, since I'm an animal lover, as you might have guessed from my May 2008 adventure.

 
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After the strike, I went back to work on BONES at the Fox Studio and found one of the Commissary lawn squirrels lost three levels underground in the parking garage. I gave it a ride back up to the lawn in my Prius since I like to help the "underdog" - see Nov. 07 below:
 

 
Solidarity with Fox TV's BONES Co-Executive Producer/Writer Scott Williams at the writers strike day 5 rally at Fox.
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(Photos by BONES Producer/Writer Liz Benjamin)
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Click on the photo to see Kim and me dancing, as the King himself officiates at our wedding.
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I prevailed upon a passing tourist to snap this candid action photo of me proposing to Kim on the Eiffel Tower.