"They were there to sort through the wreckage, the aftermath."
"He remembered Merriman saying to be careful handing these things out. There were plenty of good men who would just as soon sleep through all this mess than serve out their shifts."
"And then the darkness took him, tightening down around anything from his past that his mind deemed too awful to bear."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(TV_series)
From 11/27/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Origin of Species" ) To 7/3/2026 ( ) is 10080 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 4/7/1947 ( Henry Ford dead ) To 7/3/2026 ( ) is 28942 days
28942 = 14471 + 14471
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) is 14471 days
From 4/29/1905 ( ) To 8/28/2026 ( ) is 44316 days
44316 = 22158 + 22158
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/3/2026 ( ) is 22158 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beckett,_1st_Baron_Grimthorpe
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
From Wikipedia
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, KC (12 May 1816 – 29 April 1905), known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was an English lawyer, mechanician, and controversialist, as well as a noted horologist and architect.
https://books.google.com/books?id=OGMwAQAAMAAJ
From 8/30/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess the debut of my current and public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft - since renamed ) To 8/28/2026 ( ) is 7668 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/31/1986 ( ) is 7668 days
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1966/mulliken/facts/
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966
Robert S. Mulliken
Facts
Robert S. Mulliken
Born: 7 June 1896, Newburyport, MA, USA
Died: 31 October 1986, Arlington, VA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Prize motivation: "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method."
Prize share: 1/1
Work
The world around us consists of molecules that are composed of atoms. In Niels Bohr's atomic model, which is based on principles of quantum physics, electrons circle the atomic nucleus in different shells that contain a fixed number of electrons. The assumption was that attractive forces between the atoms in a molecule are the result of atoms sharing electrons to fill the electron shells. Beginning in the mid-1920s, Robert Mulliken applied quantum mechanics to the development of sophisticated models for the movement of electrons within a molecule, so-called molecular orbitals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction
Parallel universes in fiction
From Wikipedia
A parallel universe, also known as an alternative universe, parallel world, parallel dimension, alternative reality, or alternative dimension, is a hypothetical universe co-existing with one's own, typically distinct in some way. The sum of all potential parallel universes that constitute reality is often called the "multiverse". Another common term for a parallel universe is "another dimension", stemming from the idea that if the 4th dimension is time, the 5th dimension—a direction at a right angle to the fourth—is a direction into any of the alternative spacetime realities.
Fiction has long borrowed an idea of "another world"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_(2024_TV_series)
Dark Matter (2024 TV series)
From Wikipedia
Dark Matter is an American science fiction television series created by Blake Crouch, based on his 2016 novel of the same name. It premiered on Apple TV+ on May 8, 2024
In August 2024, the series was renewed for a second season.
"The Box" He agrees to work with Velocity, claiming he wants to regain his memories. Jason #01 studies Jason #02's research and realizes the latter discovered a method to travel between dimensions by sealing the traveler inside a metal box and injecting them with a chemical compound to inhibit areas of the prefrontal cortex and induce a state of superposition.
"The Corridor" Jason #01 and Amanda find themselves in an infinite corridor with doors leading to infinite alternate realities. They use the ampoules and go through numerous doors hoping to find Jason #01's reality, but every world they visit happens to be desolate and ruined.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 05, 2017 3:02 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
Multiverse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of possible universes, including the universe in which we live. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, and the physical laws and constants that describe them.
The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternative universes".
Origin of the concept
In Dublin in 1952, Erwin Schrödinger gave a lecture in which he jocularly warned his audience that what he was about to say might "seem lunatic". He said that, when his Nobel equations seemed to describe several different histories, these were "not alternatives, but all really happen simultaneously". This is the earliest known reference to the multiverse outside of fiction.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)
Parallel universe (fiction)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science fiction
While technically incorrect, and looked down upon by hard science-fiction fans and authors, the idea of another "dimension" has become synonymous with the term "parallel universe". The usage is particularly common in movies, television and comic books and much less so in modern prose science fiction. The idea of a parallel world was first introduced in comic books with the publication of The Flash #123, "Flash of Two Worlds".[citation needed]
In written science fiction, "new dimensions" more commonly – and more accurately – refer to additional coordinate axes, beyond the three spatial axes with which we are familiar. By proposing travel along these extra axes, which are not normally perceptible, the traveler can reach worlds that are otherwise unreachable and invisible.
Television series involving parallel universes
Charlie Jade, in which the titular character is accidentally thrown into our universe and is looking for a way back to his own.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 25, 2020
Somewhere in my posts, I wrote about my thoughts on this topic, popular in science-fiction
My dissertation being that the Many Worlds Theory is just a big crock of shit
The basis of that theory, I've speculated, is ignoring that electrons *have* predictability
My guess is that someone reverse-engineered that notion that the states of electrons can NEVER be determined
Therefore, everything is uncertain
And since everything is uncertain then everything is possible
I think that the invention of Many Worlds Theory based on that viewpoint is dim-witted
There is only ONE reason that the states of electrons cannot be determined: the primitive technology of the human-race
My assertion is that anything that tries to measure the state of electrons would have to shoot more electrons at the target electron, thus changing it
So, out there somewhere in the vast Universe, with it bazillions of possibilities for life vastly more intelligent than human will be ever, there may be technology that can measure accurately and unobtrusively the state of electrons.
Predictable eliminates uncertainty.
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess, February 27, 2017
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hugh-everett-biography/
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett
After his now celebrated theory of multiple universes met scorn, Hugh Everett abandoned the world of academic physics. He turned to top secret military research and led a tragic private life
By Peter Byrne on October 21, 2008
Everett’s scientific journey began one night in 1954, he recounted two decades later, “after a slosh or two of sherry.” He and his Princeton classmate Charles Misner and a visitor named Aage Petersen (then an assistant to Niels Bohr) were thinking up “ridiculous things about the implications of quantum mechanics.” During this session Everett had the basic idea behind the many-worlds theory, and in the weeks that followed he began developing it into a dissertation.
The core of the idea was to interpret what the equations of quantum mechanics represent in the real world by having the mathematics of the theory itself show the way instead of by appending interpretational hypotheses to the math. In this way, the young man challenged the physics establishment of the day to reconsider its foundational notion of what constitutes physical reality.
In pursuing this endeavor, Everett boldly tackled the notorious measurement problem in quantum mechanics, which had bedeviled physicists since the 1920s. In a nutshell, the problem arises from a contradiction between how elementary particles (such as electrons and photons) interact at the microscopic, quantum level of reality and what happens when the particles are measured from the macroscopic, classical level. In the quantum world, an elementary particle, or a collection of such particles, can exist in a superposition of two or more possible states of being. An electron, for example, can be in a superposition of different locations, velocities and orientations of its spin. Yet anytime scientists measure one of these properties with precision, they see a definite result—just one of the elements of the superposition, not a combination of them. Nor do we ever see macroscopic objects in superpositions. The measurement problem boils down to this question: How and why does the unique world of our experience emerge from the multiplicities of alternatives available in the superposed quantum world?
Physicists use mathematical entities called wave functions to represent quantum states. A wave function can be thought of as a list of all the possible configurations of a superposed quantum system, along with numbers that give the probability of each configuration’s being the one, seemingly selected at random, that we will detect if we measure the system. The wave function treats each element of the superposition as equally real, if not necessarily equally probable from our point of view.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted online by me: 09/14/2020
From my research, most of that Multiple Universe nonsense, common in popular science-fiction, started with some comments by some guy in Physics, at Princeton University, wasn't it?
My guess is that spawned out of the fact that the precise location of electrons can never be determined. Because, with modern human technology, you would have to shoot more electrons at that electron to track it and thus, you just changed it.
So, the fact is: electrons ALWAYS have a precise location. Is just that humans have no way of knowing those precise details
So some guy at Princeton - drunk, perhaps - extrapolated the notion into a wacky, convoluted idea that multiple-universes exist
Since electrons can't be tracked then ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, according to that wacky physics graduate. But the reality is: Anything is not possible, when extrapolating with the unknown-electrons idea
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, previously referenced - backstory ) is 4730 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1978 ( ) is 4730 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Crouch
From 5/21/1969 ( described publicly only by me, the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) To 10/15/1978 ( ) is 3434 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/29/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Executive Order 11848 - Extending the Reporting Date for the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States ) is 3434 days
From 7/23/1963 ( ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) is 4730 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1978 ( ) is 4730 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519754/
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica
S1.E5
The Long Patrol
Episode aired Oct 15, 1978
Starbuck's unplanned double-date with Cassiopeia and Athena on the recently-reopened luxury liner Rising Star is interrupted when the Galactica picks up long-range transmission traffic indicating human life in a distant solar system on the other side of a vast asteroid dust field. Starbuck is recalled to duty to pilot the Starchaser, an up-powered reconnaissance viper denuded of weaponry and bearing a voice-activated computer - Computer, Oral Response Activated, known simply as CORA - that can handle the vast increase in performance in the new viper. Starbuck is enthralled by the new viper, but less enthusiastic about CORA, who bears a personality that grates on Starbucks nerves.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-interamerican-studies-and-world-affairs/article/international-significance-of-the-lunar-landing/3C2BB5089E2A7AC66F2C0214B3E95FA5
Cambridge University Press
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 12, Issue 1 January 1970 , pp. 3-30 This volume was published under a former title. See this journal's title history.
The International Significance of the Lunar Landing
Foy D. Kohler (a1) and Dodd L. Harvey (a1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/174840Published online: 02 January 2018
The initial impetus came from publication of a letter of July 23, 1963, from Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, to Dr. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, in which Lovell reported the president of the USSR Academy of Sciences had told him “that the Academy believed that it was now appropriate to formulate on an international basis (a) the reasons why it is desirable to engage in the manned lunar enterprise and (b) to draw up a list of scientific tasks which a man on the moon could deal with which could not be solved by instruments alone.”
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica
The Long Patrol
Quotes
Lieutenant Starbuck: Well, let's just say I'm looking forward to a few centons in space... alone. Just me, a fast ship and a fair galaxy.
Captain Apollo: Fast ship you have, the engineers have doubled the range and speed, they even installed a voice-activated computer that can outfly anything the Cylons throw at you.
Lieutenant Starbuck: A hot pilot doesn't need all that electronic felgercarb.
https://screenrant.com/dark-matter-apple-tv-blake-crouch-rare-feat/
Apple TV’s Returning 9-Part Thriller Achieves A Rare Adaptation Feat In 2026
Dhruv Sharma
Published Apr 15, 2026, 10:31 PM EDT
One of Apple TV's best sci-fi shows is scheduled to return with a new season in 2026, and, this time around, it is achieving a rare feat that only a few other shows have pulled off.
The more Apple TV grows its sci-fi catalog with both original and adapted TV shows, the more it proves that it is the best streaming service for the genre right now. Even in 2026, the streamer is all set to maintain its sci-fi reign with returning shows like Silo and potential new releases like Neuromancer. Speaking of returning shows, Dark Matter season 2 also premieres on Apple TV on August 28, 2026.
Considering how fascinating its exploration of multiverses was in season 1, it is hard not to be hyped about Dark Matter's return. What makes it even more exciting is that, despite being based on a book, the show is doing something that only a few TV adaptations have managed to achieve in the past. This makes it one of the most distinct modern sci-fi shows.
A lot of sci-fi book adaptations end up getting their source material's authors involved in their productions. They do this to ensure that, despite being translated to the screen, the adaptations remain true to the essence of the source and do not disappoint the existing fans of the original book. However, in rare situations, the original authors themselves serve as the showrunners of their own adaptations.
Apple TV's Dark Matter is one such rare book adaptation in which the original book's author, Blake Crouch, also serves as the showrunner. What makes Blake Crouch's involvement with the series even more intriguing is that he exhausted his book's story in season 1.
Owing to this, with Dark Matter set to return with season 2 on August 28, 2026, Blake Crouch is now expanding the lore of his own original novel in the audiovisual format. Neil Gaiman's Good Omens is one such rare adaptation in which the original author not only develops the series but also expands his own original story through television's serialized format.
Since book-to-screen adaptations are hit-or-miss and seldom please readers of their source material, this approach often works because it gets rid of the usual disconnect between creator and adaptation. While it is too soon to tell how Dark Matter season 2 will turn out, its future seems optimistic with Blake Crouch as its showrunner.
Instead of directly translating every page and chapter of his book to the screen, Blake Crouch carefully introduces some fascinating changes to the source material with Dark Matter's TV adaptation. He not only brings conceptual changes that make the show's sci-fi more sound and free from plot holes but also takes time to develop side characters from the book. This allows the Apple TV sci-fi show to be as good as the original novel, if not better in some story arcs.
More often than not, it is concerning when a show attempts to extend beyond its source material's story. Book adaptations like Game of Thrones have proven that once a series runs out of roadmap from its original text, it risks drifting too far away from the original author's vision.
Fortunately, for Apple TV's Dark Matter, its original author is its creator, allowing it to stay true to Blake Crouch's storytelling vision even after it adopts an original storyline in season 2. Although Blake Crouck's direct involvement with the series does not guarantee it will succeed in season 2, it promises to have all the key ingredients that made the show a critical and commercial hit in season 1.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:54 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 06/27/2026
