I apply the skills I have developed in doing research for advanced power delivery systems and innovative energy technologies to writing science fiction. With a degree in physics and being a licensed electrical engineer, as well as an amateur astronomer, I have most of the tools needed. The literary fiction skills (as opposed to technical writing skills) I learned from my wife, who has a master’s degree in English. At the right is brief sketch of how I write science fiction.

I endeavor to base the fiction in science fiction on reasonable extrapolations of known science. My first novel, Telpher, employs some very common sc-fi tropes. The novel advances authentic science background in each case.

Physicist Miguel Alcubierre’s solution to Einstein’s General Relativity equation showed that warping space to allow travel across vast interstellar distances was possible if exotic matter were available.

Physicist Kip Thorne, in his book “Black Holes and Time Warps,” speculates that wormholes in the quantum foam at Planck dimensions could be scaled up to human dimensions (assuming an advanced civilization).

Telpher suggests parallel worlds as a way of overcoming the forbidding logic of time travel to the past (e.g., the “grandfather paradox”). Physicists today invoke the possibility of a multiverse to explain the probabilistic nature of modern quantum theory.

Telpher also portrays how the scientific method sometimes proceeds. The discovery of telepathy in the 21st century is likened to the accidental discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by radio astronomers Wilson and Penzias.