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SEVEN OPTIMISTIC NOVELS ABOUT THE FUTURE
They are fiction stories which reveal lesser known trends in government and business, with creative solutions.
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS BROWNER
In 250 years from now, will minds immeasurably superior to ours regard Australia with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us? (From War of the Worlds).
Can Australia be united by a central, rational, scientific government, under Aboriginal Prime Minister Abajoe?
PRESUMED DEAD
In a city governed by a bipartisan duopoly, could self-interest of political parties corrupt politics and cause the disappearance of Jane Kenwood an iconic woman city councillor?
Can her boyfriend Phillip Keane, a forensic scientist, uncover political skulduggery?
SHORT OF LOVE
Tom and Vicki meet at university but their affair is delayed by their careers, which involve
unethical corporate trading between Canada and an African country. The story exposes corporate capitalism and the greed of Tom when he sells his girl to a friend. The story is a satire.
TIME IS GOLD
The story goes inside the bubble where an elite marathon runner trains for the Olympics following advice given by a physicist, psychologist, neuroscientist and a Zen Buddhist. Her think tank discuss philosophies of performance in timed events. Her boyfriend Jack depends on her success for his PhD thesis.
ANIMAL FARM 2
The story sequels George Orwell’s political satire Animal Farm (1945). The pigs’ totalitarian control continues on Caruba, an island where the Social Republic installs missiles adjacent to the Democratic Union. The animals learn English and climate science in order to contest the closing of the coal mine, which is their only employment. Will the animals overthrow the pigs?
TURKEYS NOT BEES
Megan is an Australian pole vault champion in training for the 2032 Olympic Games. Her career is halted by nanny state overreach, banning her training methods. Conditions in competitions are to be levelled to bring success to outsiders, profits to investors and votes to politicians. Will Megan and her boyfriend Chance be able to successfully oppose, with a non-violent protest march, mandatory restrictions in a pandemic?
BRISBANE RIVER ANTI-MEMOIR
Coming shortly. A fresh look at the floods and new ways they could have been avoided, based on phenomenological analysis.
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TIME IS GOLD
CATHY FREEMAN’S TIME DILATES
Cathy Freeman, runner, may have dilated time in extreme-flow at the Y2000 Olympics in Sydney. See new ABC News documentary 7.40pm Sunday September 13th. My novel Time is Gold to be published in 2020 will explain the theory of extreme-flow.
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STAY YOUNGER GET QUICKER
Dilated time is personally observed without timepieces.
STAY YOUNGER
I have posted details of my theory of time dilation and how it can be achieved by athletes, performers, artists and anyone who trains their brain to achieve optimally by extreme-flow using faster physical skills.
The theory is evidenced as follows.
1. Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity was published in 1905, explains physical observations, has never been refuted and is applied in technology such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS).
2. Personal time dilation is predicted as an analogy of Einstein’s theory, with electromagnetic impulses travelling relatively much faster in a neural medium.
3. Because time dilation would be in the brain, the hypothesis cannot be tested directly that activities would be completed in fewer longer time units.
4. The theory explains earlier completion of various types of performance.
5. The theory can explain delay in aging and longevity of performers and certain others.
6. The amount an individual can stay younger would depend on their mental endurance training and their exertion.
I plan to publish my novel Time is Gold in 2020. For more information, see my blog.
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TIME DOESN’T NEED REINVENTING
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732960-900-inside-the-incredibly-slow-race-to-reinvent-time/
Do we need to recalibrate clocks with the latest scientific timepiece? It seems tyrannical to have to hitch our wagon train to such an exclusive and inaccessible instrument. In any case, Einstein’s a priori assumption that the speed of light is constant prevents that being verified by measurement because no independent clock is available. The notion of universal time seems practically useful but epistemologically unsound. Updating it obfuscates the main issue which is that humans have become obsessed with regulating their narrow affairs by timepieces instead of tuning into each other’s broader personal experiences. I have written a fiction novel Time is Gold which explores time in athletic endurance to be published soon.
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Time is slower in a faster frame.
