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Ken Wharton December 6, 2001 Go To Chat How To Chat 
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Ken Wharton is an experimental physicist who has played with some very expensive toys, including the most powerful laser in the world. Fortunately, he channels most of his mad scientist tendencies into writing hard SF. Wharton's eBook Boltzmann's Ghost is available now via Eggplant-Productions and you can read an excerpt. His first novel, "Divine Intervention," is being published by Ace Science Fiction in December 2001. Bibliography
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JaniceMars Ken, you and I first met when you popped out to CYBLING to do a chat about your electronic eTEXT that was recently published by Eggplant-Productions. Can you tell the folks here a little about that? Ken Wharton Boltzmann's Ghost. That was a novelette based on some physics ideas left over from this novel (Divine Intervention, Ace Books, out 9 days ago.) In the novel I based a religion on the ideas; in the novelette I used it in a different way. JaniceMars Ken... I've read the first chapter and I'm finding it fascinating already. Is the whole book from the youngster's point of view? Ken Wharton It was fun to write. Took 3 years, but... fun. No -- 5 characters, not just Drew. 5 viewpoint characters, that is. Zyxt Do you have any short fiction published? Ken Wharton Yes; a novelette in the Leading Edge, and a short in a recently published anthology, "Bones of the World", in the sff.net series. I also have a short in Analog in 2 months. And, of course, Boltzmann's Ghost! Zyxt Very nice. I'll have to watch for that. Title? Ken Wharton The Analog story will be called "Flight Correction". Nothing to do with the novel at all. Should be in the March '02 issue. Zyxt Thanks. Congrats on the sale, too. Baryon Why name the ship after Disney? Ken Wharton Good question. This colony ship cost a lot of $$, so they need sponsorship to limit the costs. But it still was a flop, financially, so there wasn't a second ship. JaniceMars Ken...you mentioned earlier that there was some "Physics" left over from one project which you used to flesh out another. Was the physics left over from Boltzman's Ghost or Divine Intervention, and can you say what was... Ken Wharton Cosmology, quantum mechanics, and time-symmetry. JaniceMars left over in a nutshell? Ken Wharton I'm really interested in the arrows of time, and it now looks like the only reason we see an arrow of time is because of special boundary conditions at the Big Bang. So I wondered what would happen if those same boundary conditions also were at the *end* of the universe...at the Big Crunch. Beth I was just wondering what part of the country you live in? Ken Wharton California Bay Area. I live in Mountain View, and work at San Jose State. (GA) JaniceMars Ken, I noticed when I picked up your book from Amazon.com that you got a nice little blurb from Allen Steele. Several of us here know him. Where did you meet him and how did you get him to read your book, if you don't mind me being so nosey? Ken Wharton A *very* nice blurb. Mind it I shamelessly quote the blurb? JaniceMars LOL, please do. Ken Wharton "DIVINE INTERVENTION is a wonderful heresy, positive proof that a hard SF novel can seriously deal with physics, religion, and interstellar colonization, and also be a page- turning adventure story." -- Allen Steele Beth Allen's a sweety. Ken Wharton I met him, after this, at the most recent WorldCon. He was very nice. Prof How do you balance academic writing with fiction? And what do your colleagues think of SF? (btw, Barry Hollander from the Rumormill here). Ken Wharton Hi Barry. Most of the other faculty think it's cool, if harmless. I'm trying to convince them that there's some *real* physics in there. Prof heh Ken Wharton But I only have time to write a page a day of fiction. Non-fiction comes in fits and starts, when I've finished an experiment, for example. Beth Do you outline your stories before you begin writing them? Ken Wharton Actually, no. I've only written one novel, and I spent about a year plotting it out in my head, but no outline. Shorts, of course, don't really need outlines. Baryon The world is especially well developed, how hard was it to come up with? Ken Wharton Not so much hard as... lengthy. Every idea I had over a 3-4 year time span went in there, somewhere. (Well, not *every* idea...) Baryon What's in the pipeline for us to enjoy next? Ken Wharton and another novel that I'm only 4 chapter into. Hopefully I'll finish it this next summer when I'm not teaching. (My posts aren't appearing...) I'm back. Beth Sometimes it takes it a few moments. JaniceMars Ah...perhaps a temporary internet slowdown. It occurs here too Ken. Not just on IRC. Zyxt Ah. The old Schroedinger's chat trick. Nice. JaniceMars LOLOLOL. Ken Wharton lol Beth Who was Schroedingers? Zyxt Some cat-hater, BG. Ken Wharton Most physicists hate cats. Beth Thanks Zyxt. Ken Wharton They're great examples to use in my exams. JaniceMars Speaking of Schroedinger and cats -- Ken you mentioned that you have a little difficulty convincing your fellow scientists that the physics you use in your stories is real physics, or did I read that wrong? Ken Wharton Not necessarily "real", but "serious". I think I have some pretty neat ideas in there that the right person might be able to run with. In fact, after I finished the novel, there was a paper in Physical Review Letters that talked about some of the same ideas I used in the novel's "religion". JaniceMars So in other words you feel that the science of physics doesn't just apply to masses that collide in the vacuum of space? They relate to the human psyche as well? Ken Wharton Where you get into tough questions, like *why* quantum mechanics is the way it is, it starts touch on issues like reality, etc. But most of the human-aspect I was exploring involved the general relationship between science and religion. That's the overall theme of the novel. Beth Well as yu can tell from my questions I don't know anything about Physics and know less about writing, so my questions tend to be more general. Why do Physicist have trouble with cats? Ken Wharton I'm allergic. Beth My I add something? Ken Wharton I actually know someone who shot a cat with a research laser. Beth May JaniceMars Please go ahead Beth. Ken Wharton (The cat was fine, don't worry.) Beth In Stephen Baxter's books he does use many things that are being researched, but are not considered fact. He tells about it at the end of his books. Ken Wharton I don't have anything at the end, but I'm considering putting up similar things on my website. Baryon Have you thought of collaborating? Ken Wharton Yes, I even have done so! Lori Ann White and I worked together on a novella. It's being shopped around right now. JaniceMars Okay, thanks Ken. When you say "shopped around", can you tell us how you shop around a novella as opposed to shopping around a novel? Ken Wharton Up through novellas you send out the whole thing at once... Beth Do you have an agent? Ken Wharton Only after Ace made the offer. Then I ran out to get one as fast as I could! JaniceMars Ken, you mentioned to me earlier that you were at the Chicago World Science Fiction Convention a couple of years ago -- was this your first convention? Ken Wharton Yes. It was only a month earlier that Ace had made the offer. It was a bit overwhelming, to say the least! Beth Do you read Locus? Ken Wharton Yes -- I recently subscribed, in time to see my first print Ad this month. Beth Cool! Beth Do you only do World Cons? JaniceMars Ken, Beth is responsible for a goodly number of the photographs that appear in Locus. Ken Wharton Beth Gwinn! Hello! Thanks for the picture in the WorldCon issue! Beth Hello! You know my name? Ken Wharton (Lori introduced us at Westercon.) Which means yes, I do go to other cons. West coast. Beth OH! OK. Beth Blond? Ken Wharton That's the one. Beth It helps to but a face with a name. Beth Do you enjoy the cons? Ken Wharton Absolutely. Beth Some people do some people don't. That's why i ask, Ken Wharton I like to be on panels, too. Zyxt Ken, I think I've got a handle on the possibilities of an eventual return to a low-entropy Zyxt state at the end of the universe, but how does that affect us here and now? Or should Zyxt I pick up the novel? Ken Wharton Boltzmann's Ghost might be a better place to answer that one. But there are some different speculations in the novel, too. I'm also finishing up a short story with yet a third possibility. Beth Will you be at Westercon this year in LA? Ken Wharton I think so, but not for sure yet. Zyxt, the short answer to your question is that there would have to be anti-entropic matter, somewhere in our universe, with its entropy going the other way. Zyxt Like politicians? Beth LOL Ken Wharton Exactly. JaniceMars Ken, I have an interesting question from Cybling which I'm going to paraphrase for you. If physics can be used to explain some forms of religion, could it also be used to explain phenomenon like Jack the Ripper? Ken Wharton The interesting question to me is what happens to a religion that's based on science after the science changes. Because science is always changing, and religions tend to be a lot more fixed. So in the novel, the religion becomes outdated because of a new discovery. As for Jack the Ripper, I'm not sure what you mean! Zyxt Who better to exorcise Maxwell's Demon - you or the Pope? Ken Wharton LOL Ara How can we make God outdated??? _ Ken Wharton In the novel I invented a new religion so as not to step on any particular toes. But they believe that God has a basis that's explained by some strange physics ideas. But when one of their ideas turns out to be proven wrong, there's a crisis of faith in one main character. He has to decide whether or not to give up on science, or change his religion. I think that's not too far removed from the evolution debate, etc. Baryon A lot of writers have touched on the Ripper over the years, does he hold any interest to you? Ken Wharton Not much, although I enjoyed Geoffrey Landis' story "the singular habits of wasps" in his new collection. Beth Mine is more of an observation. When you said that your main character had a crsis of faith and had to decide between Religion and Science. that is a crsis many people face today. Ken Wharton Indeed. I don't think it's good that people get turned off by science because they think it contradicts old versions of texts that couldn't possibly take current knowledge into account. I would hope they could update their beliefs, but that's hard, too. Beth Another thought here. I think this has to do with the Evolutionary path we are on. JaniceMars Ara, did you you also have a comment? Beth I think the more we know the more that religion is called to question. Ken Wharton Perhaps. Although the characters in the story think that science is the only way to find... Ara How can you update beliefs since beliefs were Ara built on old versions of text. We might as well Ara create a new god. Ken Wharton the perfect religion. Calculating God by Sawyer has similar themes. Or take the older texts less literally, Ara. JT I think religion is based more on faith than on knowledge Ken Wharton I agree, but it doesn't have to be that way, I don't think. At least, in the novel I tried to explore what would happen if it wasn't. JT That religion and science can coexist? Ken Wharton I think you start to get into trouble when you try to answer the same question with both methods; religion and science. Unless it's a scientific religion! Zyxt Jesuits come to mind, JT. JaniceMars Okay folks, I'm ripping the duct tape off Ken Wharton now.... Ken Wharton But this is just getting good! JaniceMars so let's all take a moment to thank him for coming out to chat with us tonight. Ara Rrrrrripp Ken Wharton Ow! Ara Thanks, Ken! Beth Thank you for visiting with us this evening,Ken. JT Thanks Ken Zyxt Thanks, Ken! And thanks, Mars for bringing him here to us tonight! Ken Wharton Thanks for having me. T8 Thanks, Ken. |
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janicemars Okay why don't we start with Frank Tuttle's question? I promise not to ask where you get your ideas, if you'll allow me to ask what sort of schedule you write with -- i.e., do you spend two hours writing each night, or an hour in the morning, or do you just sit down whenever you feel like writing? Ken_Wharton Closer to the latter, probably. Not the mornings -- evening or night, almost always. I was doing a good job at writing every day until I quit my job. Of course, now that I'll be starting a new job next week I'll be back on the 250-word/day routine. janicemars How did not having a 9-5 throw a wrench in your writing? Ken_Wharton For example, I just got back from a week trip to LA. I guess I consider myself on vacation from everything. janicemars Ah. So when you are working how do you schedule your second job, writing fiction? Ken_Wharton I'll figure it out as it comes. I think being a professor is going to take a lot of time! janicemars Thanks Ken. Ken, can I ask you what you'll be professing and where? Ken_Wharton San Jose State U. Physics department. This'll be my first "real" job, if you don't count postdocs. baryon Ken, the story is sort of PKDickian or is it just me? Ken_Wharton I guess it is. It's tough to make an interesting story where the paranoid guy is completely wrong. janicemars Cool. So you'll soon find yourself in a similar position as your protagonist, Grady, in _Boltzmann's Ghost_ ? In that you'll be writing grants etc.? Ken_Wharton That's right. But the pressure won't be as high, I don't think. janicemars You won't be in research then? Ken_Wharton It's primarily a teaching job, with a little research. janicemars Okay, cool. Ken_Wharton I will be writing grants, but not multi-million $$ ones. roach So do you find that teaching and the teaching environment is similar to the situation in Boltzmann's Ghost? Ken_Wharton From my experience as a grad student, yeah. FrankT DO your associates know you're a writer, Ken? Ken_Wharton Yes -- I was up front about it when I interviewed. They seemed to like it, at least the ones who mentioned it! Figgy_works_alot Hi Ken. What fiction/authors are you currently reading? Ken_Wharton I'm reading "Calculating God" by Sawyer right now. This year I've read a lot of Connie Willis and Wil McCarthy. My favorite author is probably Greg Egan. janicemars Frank, did any science fiction authors lead you into considering physics as a profession? Ken_Wharton Not really. My dad was a physicist, so he probably had the most influence. BUT I've always been interested in the big questions, and physics and science fiction both address those questions in their own way roach Boltzmann's Ghost is a thinking man's science fiction and Divine Intervention is science fiction as well. Do you only write in the sci-fi genre or have you written fantasy or horror or literary works as well? Ken_Wharton I've only written hard SF, actually. I'm supposed to write what I know, right? FrankT Ken -- do you worry about advances in theoretical physics rendering any of your tales "obsolete?" Ken_Wharton That's one of the things I write about. In the novel, one of the key ideas involves how science changes I try to beat the curve on the prediction side, but I'm sure I'll be obsolete soon. But that's part of the challenge. janicemars Excellent. Ken, did you write Divine Intervention or Boltzmann's Ghost first? Ken_Wharton The novel. That was the first thing I wrote, actually. The shorter stuff came later. janicemars Which size format do you find more comfortable, short stories, novellas or novels? Ken_Wharton None of the above. janicemars LOL! Ken_Wharton Novelettes. 10-15k is perfect for exploring a hard SF idea. Sean_K When will we be seeing Red Queen in print? Ken_Wharton Red Queen is coming out in the Bones of the World anthology in 2 weeks. janicemars And I'm assuming that Red Queen is a Novelette? Ken_Wharton Actually, it's right at the 5k limit for the anthology. Figgy_works_alot Do you have any anthologies of your work in print? roach You certainly are having a busy year! Ken_Wharton But that's the first short I wrote. Sean_K It is? Can I hate you now? My first short is unreadable. janicemars Ken, you have more stories making the rounds? Ken_Wharton My first "short" was 15k and unsalable. I have 3-4 stories going around right now. Sean_K OK. I'll hate you less. *g* Ken_Wharton and I'm about to have my first collaboration finished. It's a novella, written with Lori Ann White (another Jintsu author). JShanahan Ken, do you find it difficult to work within the strict parameters of hard SF? Ken_Wharton Difficult, yes. But I enjoy the challenge of exploring real ideas. Boltzmann's Ghost started off as a physics paper, actually! Vawton lol, cool :) janicemars LOL! Ken_Wharton Almost got it published, too. It will be appearing in a conference proceedings soon. baryon Jintsu is developing quite a list of authors. FrankT Started as a paper? Egad! I drool with envy. Vawton What's the url for Jintsu? roach http://www.eggplant-productions.com/jintsu Vawton thankees, roach baryon Do you find it easier working with certain editors? Ken_Wharton Roach has been great, of course, apart from that I don't have much experience yet. Sean_K Are you working on novel #2 now? Ken_Wharton Novel #2 is underway. Working title "The Silence". Sean_K Any lambs in it? * janicemars thwaps Sean Ken_Wharton lol janicemars Ken, you have so much work coming out this year. When did you first start writing fiction and how long did it take before you made your first sale? Ken_Wharton This has been a fantastic year, but I started in '95 (on the novel), finished it in '98, and didn't make my first sale until '00. That was a novelette to The Leading Edge. JShanahan Ken, how much shopping around did you do before the novel landed? Ken_Wharton I got very lucky on the novel. Tor took 1.5 years to say no, and I didn't realize I could send the first 3 chapters to more than one place at once. So then I sent it to Ace, after I had sold the novelette. JShanahan Such discipline! ;) roach LOL. Vawton hehe Ken_Wharton As it turned out, Anne Sowards, the Assistant Editor at Ace had once worked at the Leading Edge! I think the one sale helped a lot. janicemars Yes, I've heard that it does... particularly when you put that in the cover letter. roach Which novelette was that? Ken_Wharton It was called "The Callisto Incident." I have a hyperlinked version on my webpage at www.sff.net/people/kwharton janicemars Ken, do you belong to any writer's workshops or did you have an unusually large number of writing courses when you majored in physics? Ken_Wharton Only 1 course. I'm now in 1 workshop and dabbling in another. janicemars Okay, let's get down to nuts and bolts here. I didn't take any physics in high-school or college. What is the missing mass? Ken_Wharton LOL. There are lots of missing masses. FrankT I didn't take the stuff! Really, I don't know where those baryons came from . .. JShanahan If you miss mass, you have to go to confession. Webmaster i thought it had to do with catholics Ken_Wharton There's dark matter, and now dark energy, too. baryon lol roach LOL. Ken_Wharton I think Boltzmann's Ghost makes as good a guess as anyone else. baryon As Sharon Green once said, "Don't give him your address or Baryon's will start coming all the time." janicemars So basically, current physics says that our universe is a lot like a fireworks going off. Pretty but destined to scatter and turn to ash? Ken_Wharton I'm not so sure. The latest wisdom is that there's this dark energy which will expand forever. BUT... That dark energy violates the symmetry principles that the rest of the universe follows. So maybe they're missing something. Webmaster isn't most of the dark particles and gamma stuff agreed upon speculation in the physics community? Ken_Wharton That's one way to put it! janicemars Cool. The Big Bang and Entropy play a central part in Boltzmann's Ghost. Are they major players in DIVINE INTERVENTION as well? Ken_Wharton Yes. D.I. uses the ideas in Boltzmann's Ghost... janicemars please go on. Ken_Wharton The theory presented in the last scene of B.G. is the religion of many characters in D.I. Very different story, but having read B.G. I think D.I. will be more enjoyable. baryon Ken, did you ever enter the Writers of the Future contest? Ken_Wharton I did enter WOTF, but never won anything. Now, I suppose, it's too late. janicemars Does Red Queen (I hope I got that title right) also deal with the same physics problems? Ken_Wharton No -- that's my first biology story. janicemars Biology? Ken_Wharton The anthology theme is *far* future... janicemars That was your minor in college or a personal hobby? Ken_Wharton So I explored what happens to humans as a species in 3 billion years. janicemars Cool. Ken_Wharton My wife is a biologist, and I find it fascinating, too. janicemars Excellent. she's your main reader then? Ken_Wharton Reader #1. Vawton Does she write too? Ken_Wharton No -- not fiction, anyway. She just finished her PhD in marine biology. janicemars I'm assuming though, since RED QUEEN takes place in 3 billion years there will be some significant changes to the universe as well though. Ken_Wharton Hey, I only had 5000 words! I stuck w/ biology. FrankT Fast, efficient drive-thrus. . . janicemars lol Araius so, in 3 billion years are the humans still looking human? Vawton Will Microsoft still be around in 3 billion years? ;) Ken_Wharton Actually yes -- that's the joke. janicemars lololololol Ken_Wharton I even have a plausible reason for that. janicemars This is a must read story then. JShanahan Microsoft said so. baryon everyone looks like Bill Gates? Ken_Wharton human, not MS. JShanahan lol Vawton hehe Ken_Wharton lol FrankT good one. roach heh. roach So Ken, what are you working on now? baryon good anti-cloning suggestion Ken_Wharton Novel #2, and the final touches on the novella-collab. FrankT Ken, do you attend any SF conventions? Ken_Wharton Yes -- I've started this year, and I love them. WorldCon last year was my first, a month after I got the offer from Ace on D.I. janicemars Which ones have you hit so far? janicemars Oh...so you were at Chicon. Ken_Wharton I've also done BayCon, WesterCon, and Potlatch. I've even talked my way onto a few panels. They're always looking for science-people, it seems. janicemars Folks... btw... you can get your copy of BOLTZMANN'S GHOST by going to... http://www.eggplant-productions.com/jintsu/boltzmann.asp roach You'll be at PhilCon this year. Any panel plans there? Ken_Wharton That might be my first Con without a panel. BUT I'm trying to get on a couple of them. janicemars LOL, shouldn't be too difficult. Just volunteer. Convenient that WorldCon happens just before your first term as professor. Ken_Wharton Right after the first week, actually. That'll be tough, but I'm still going. Araius Are you a professor of biology, Ken? Ken_Wharton Physics. Worldcon '02 will be right across the street from SJSU. Araius Ah, OK Araius Lots of us will be at Conjose janicemars Ken, Boltzmann's Ghost and Divine Intervention have Physics as their basic science, and Red Queen has biology. Any plans to tackle any of the other sciences? Ken_Wharton D.I. has a little bit of everything. But mostly I'm sticking with physics. Webmaster scientology? * janicemars thwaps Webmaster Ken_Wharton Read the novel, and you'll know what I think. janicemars They *do* say write what you know. roach And when does the novel come out? Ken_Wharton November 27th... roach Oh, they bumped it up? Congrats. Ken_Wharton That counts as "December", apparently... roach Ah...hehe janicemars Ken, you'll now be published in both electronic and paper formats. Is there a significant difference in the way you go about getting published in them? Ken_Wharton Not really. It's always nice to email submissions, but the process seems to be similar. (Bear in mind that I'm very new at all this!) janicemars You mentioned earlier that you've been reading Connie Willis lately. Her time travel novels perhaps? Ken_Wharton Yup. I just finished Passage, too. janicemars I'm curious about your opinions on Time Travel. Does your view of physics rule it out? Ken_Wharton Not ruled out, but, you'll always have the paradoxes if you go back in time, unless there's no human free will. Turns out that you can't make a paradox without free will. Vawton What about hyperdrive/warp drive? Ken_Wharton Same problems there as with time travel. If you can go faster than light, you can go back in time. So which is more important; FTL or free will? Webmaster is ftl even possible? janicemars I'll take the illusion of free will any old day. Vawton :) Ken_Wharton Maybe, but the paradox problems bother me. baryon ftl is only possible with "spice and the folding of space" Araius Maybe possible, Ken? Ken_Wharton Probably FTL would be through a loophole in relativity, not quantum. Lots of people think that quantum mechanics has action at a distance, but I don't think so. John Cramer has a great interpretation of QM which I like roach And what's that? * Webmaster listens. Ken_Wharton It's called the Transactional Interpretation. It involves backwards causality instead of wave-particle duality. Physicists don't like it because they think there's a "law of causality" which is hard to define and impossible to test. Vawton [Summary of Transactional Interpretation ] Vawton http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/ti_over/node2.html ] janicemars Ken, I found the way that Grady puzzled out the alien influence on the unfortunate Darrell, interesting. How did you work out the confusing backwards/forwards movement of the plot in BOLTZMANN'S GHOST? * Vawton loves Google :) Ken_Wharton Lots of careful thinking... roach heh. Ken_Wharton It's easy to make mistakes when you're thinking about time, because common sense plays havoc with how we think about it. Araius I have heard about the so-called "co-moving theory." Webmaster you seem to have a lot of room in that spacial reasoning in there Webmaster doesn't help we have all this experience moving forward at a constant rate Ken_Wharton That's exactly right. Webmaster but none moving in any other direction or velocity Ken_Wharton In fact, Time doesn't flow at all. It's just a coordinate; that's like saying that space flows. Webmaster it does flow, given my perspective :) Webmaster it's like saying the highway flows...it does at 75 mph :) janicemars Did you actually have to plot it out on a graph or are you one of those people who does square roots in his head? Ken_Wharton Sure -- but you can always stop and reverse a car. Webmaster but I'm a passenger to time :) Ken_Wharton I worked out the consequences of the theory and tried to prove it wrong with existing cosmological observations. I couldn't prove it wrong, so I wrote a paper. roach Cool. Ken_Wharton The paper proposes an experiment to see if the theory in B.G. is correct. Araius What do you think about the cosmological constant? Ken_Wharton I'm betting it's zero, but, I've been wrong before! Araius Some say that constant is the key to FTL Ken_Wharton Hmm... Haven't heard that one. janicemars Ken, mathematics plays a major part in your work. How valuable has the computer been to you as a tool in your work: first physics and then writing? Ken_Wharton I've never written on anything else. And physics without computers is very painful. Vawton I'll bet :) Ken_Wharton But I am halfway done with my first story based on a math idea. janicemars Did you ever have to use a slide rule? (fishing for your age here). Ken_Wharton No -- I'm 31. roach LOL. janicemars Thanks. They threw them out the window just before I got to that part in my studies. I'm older. Ken_Wharton 30 years ago, just drawing a curve for a figure on a graph was a royal pain. I have it easy. janicemars Oh, there are some constants Ken. Regardless of how *easy* things get, some folks like you will always be ahead of the pack. And doing things that confound the rest of us. Ken_Wharton As long as it makes for entertaining stories. Ken_Wharton (end of thought) janicemars Ah. Thanks. Was waiting there, lol. roach LOl . janicemars Again, folks, if you're a fan of hard science fiction you can't find a better big bang for your buck in BOLTZMANN'S GHOST, which you can get at http://www.eggplant-productions.com/jintsu/boltzmann.asp Folks we've kept Ken on the hot seat here for over an hour. Are there any final question for him? Webmaster nope...thanks, Ken roach nope. janicemars Okay, I have one...Ken... Ken_Wharton Thank you! ok ododo relax, Ken and good luck janicemars can we get you to come back out here in the beginning of December... Ken_Wharton Absolutely! janicemars to talk to us at length about DIVINE INTERVENTION? Ken_Wharton I'd love to. janicemars Excellent. Well on that note, I want to thank you... Vawton Thanks, Ken, this was an extremely interesting conversation :) Araius Thank you, Ken janicemars for an absolutely wonderful interview! Ken_Wharton I enjoyed it! roach A great time was had by all. ;] janicemars As usual. Ken_Wharton Thanks for inviting me... Araius And I bid the room goodnight :) ecats Thank you, Ken Ken_Wharton 'night! Thanks to everyone who came, too. janicemars Thanks. Later! Ken_Wharton Bye! |
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