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This is the website where I present original works and ideas concerning Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics. It is a companion site to mascatelloarts.com and SteamPilots.com
Art - Oil on Canvas
A collection of original Abstract works inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro - in addition to the Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Hans Hoffman
Music - Original Compositions
Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer and Keyboard Synthesizer - fusion style of Blues, Rock, Jazz, Classical and Latin
Writing - Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization - now available on Amazon Kindle
Science - Research Topics
Current research includes Boron-based life forms, Wormhole Engineering, Biological Simulations, Organic Farming Techniques and 3D Printing
My Art GALLERY - Please click on one of the thumbnail images to begin viewing
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Music Studio
Original Music Recordings and Videos
New - Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization - Movie
The Healing (video)
`` (iMovie)
Night Cats (sound only, no video)
Stormy Monday Cover (sound only, no video)
Somewhere Over the Wormhole (sound only, no video)
"Asteroid" from the "Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization" ( sound only, no video)
Original Latin Jazz Untitled (sound only)
Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization
In 1994. I came across a copy of A Brief History of Time by Dr. Stephen Hawking. I had heard about black holes but never came across the term “Wormhole”. The possibility of crossing dimensions and space time was extremely appealing given my life-long interest in Time Travel. I envisioned H.G. Wells’ George the Time Traveler at the helm of a different type of time machine, one powered by unfathomable amounts of energy. The idea evolved to include concepts of Wormhole Engineering, Information Theory, and of course Quantum Physics. It was then that I conceived of a new kind of subatomic particle – the Infon - or Information Subatomic Particle:
In the words of Alloy SiB – a Silicon Boron AI being sent to present day earth by an advanced civilization- “At 10 to the 28th power electron volts, the infon subatomic particle will unify gravity with the electronuclear force to form an infogravelectronuclear field – a state of zero entropy in which pure information may exists – and the arrow of time may be reversed. When this happens, the Primordial Wormhole Network will be accessible.”
“Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization” is a novella about five young pre-teenagers who stumble across the Wormhole machine on the grounds adjacent to the Fermilab particle accelerator laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. The youths visit different civilizations in history according to a mission outlined by Alloy SiB. The stakes are none other than to save the Universe from Entropic Death. But there is another aspect of the mission for the young adventurers – to gather knowledge cubes, or tesserae – to construct a “Mosaic of Civilization” which will reveal the Secrets of the 22nd Century civilization known as the Epistimiens.
It took me nearly eighteen months year to complete the first edition of “Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization”. There was extensive research both in the science and the history of civilizations. I even did my due diligence and visited Fermilab, where I was fortunate enough to get a private tour of the tevatron.
In 1997, I was able to self-publish the story on the Internet under the pen name, Bert Willliams Productions. I also located a first-generation ISP who provided some interactive Java scripts – to enable me to publish a History Trivia game as part of a complete "Wormhole Interactive" web site. Within 6 months, the site had 60,000 hits and on one particularly exciting day, was the featured site on scifi.com. In fact, “Wormhole Interactive” was featured in the Yellow Pages of the Internet - and was the only web site at the time categorized under Wormholes.
While not able to take the concept to the limit back then, I am proud to announce the availability of the second edition of “Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization” on Amazon Kindle Direct. Check it out.
Note: the following Prologue is available as a sample of the work. I hope you are curious enough the purchase the e-book on Amazon.
Prologue
By the mid-1990’s, scientists studying chaos dynamics were becoming increasingly concerned about rising levels and the rate of change of chaos throughout the world. Some experts argued that these erratic fluctuations in nature and society were within normal statistical boundaries. However, the majority conceded that widespread and frequent occurrences of unpredictable behavior were a harbinger of even worse things to come.
There were seemingly daily natural disasters, - floods in the Mid-West, earthquakes in California, and an unprecedented number of hurricanes and ice storms in all parts of the globe. In the medical world, researchers pointed to Chaos Theory as a means to explain the erratic behaviors of newly discovered auto-Immune diseases. Even Social Scientists were attempting to link Chaos Theory to everything from the L.A. Riots to the O.J. Simpson Murder case.
By the summer of 1998, the number of unpredictable events had risen even more dramatically. There were record numbers of plane crashes, boats sinking, and car accidents. There were reports of missing pets, rising insect populations, and people complaining of color blindness and sudden hearing loss – all seemingly unrelated events. In October of that year, mankind witnessed a 9.5 Richter scale earthquake in Chile, a flash melting of the Rink Glacier in Greenland, and a 32% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Index. The whole world was seeking an explanation for these catastrophic events – but for this they would have to wait…
Lyrics
New York Radio
When I was driving
Over the bridge
Playing my New York Radio
A song came on that I recognized
One I wrote in 1979
So I headed down to the Studio
Thinking – hey I’m gonna be live on the Radio
The man said "Sir - I never heard of you
But why don’t you play it just the same"
Then I was playing over the air
Playing on New York Radio
Twenty years and I had my chance
Couldn’t wait to quit the garage band
So I headed home from the Studio
They called me a star every where I’d go
My friends said "Hey – what ever happened to you
And what’s up with changing your name?"
Now I’m surfing over the web
Surfing for New York Radio
That Yahoo says that I won some award
The people’s choice said the chat room board
It makes me laugh when I think about things
How I almost gave up playing out on gigs
A middle-aged rock star is OK to be
Playing on New York Radio
The Sun it Rises
The sun it rises
And sets in the west
The days turn to years
Until it’s time to rest
And all of these changes
The things that we go through
Are shaping the future
and the things that we do
Oh Yeah, yeah
So we go on living
Just you and I
Making the best of things
Until it’s time to die
And all of these changes
The things that we go through
Are shaping the future
and the things that we do
Oh Yeah, yeah
True love it’s always growing
As we’re sipping good red wine
But like a vintage bottle
It’s getting better all the time
And all of these changes
The things that we go through
Are shaping the future
and the things that we do
Oh Yeah, yeah
Goodnight Son
Goodnight son
I’m going off to war
Goodbye son
You won’t see me no more
But don’t cry for me
I died for my country
To protect my home
And family
Hello son
I see you knocking on heaven’s door
You grew up
And then there was another stinkin' war
Man - how many must lose their lives
How many more sacrificed
Oh - Sweet Jesus
I can take it any more
Invisible Man
Lurking in the shadows
With a guitar in my hand
You can’t even see me
Cause I am the invisible man
Playing in a transparent band
I’m tired of being hounded
Each and every day
By crowds of screaming groupies
That want to see me play
Hiding out backstage
With a guitar in my hand
You can’t even touch me
Cause I am the invisible man
Playing in a transparent band
That’s why I stay invisible
Inside my rock star home
And how I stay transparent
Even when I am alone
Why?
The mind is the source of the inner expedition
Knowledge sets the course for the spiritual transition
That makes its way into our lives
Sounds that pass along the inner line
Are making songs that end in ryhmes -
Of lands mysterious
And voyages that I have missed
And so I ask myself - "Why"?
Nature
Don’t try to go against nature my friend
It’s like trying to swim upstream
And don’t abuse the animals or laugh at things unseen
Cause man appeared in evolution
Unwary of his fate
And now there’s destruction and pollution
How can we bear such disgrace?
So don’t try to go against nature my friend
It’s like trying to swim upstream
Cause if you do, you’ll be regretting it
You'll be drowning in your dreams
Starry Night
Starry Night,
Starry Night
moonlit night
In a tiny village
And the churchbells ring
To let the people know
What time it is
To sleep at night
To dream at night
To watch their spirits soar in flight
To be alive
Inside that Starry Night
Starry Night
Starry Night
Moonlit night
Richmond Blues
Richmond blues
Midnight train
Is coming for you
Richmond blues
Making the run on 95
Richmond blues
Moving up north
To be with loved ones
Richmond blues
They’re wanting you
Richmond blues
But they can’t have you
Hiroshima
Oh Hiroshima
What did they do?
Oh Hiroshima
They dropped a bomb on you
They said they did it
So millions wouldn’t die
Would they have done it
If they could have heard the mothers' cries
Oh Hiroshima
Rise up and pray
That other’s won’t go through
What you went through that day
Starlets and Kings
Time races with silver wings
To overcome even starlets and kings
So when it seems like you’ve got it all
Just be careful not to fall.
Time races with silver wings
To overcome even starlets and kings
You can’t stop him – no matter how hard you try
He’ll catch up to you - and then you’ll die
So make the best of things
While you’re on this Earth
Make your mama proud
She’d given birth
And when it’s time for you to go
Say hello to the starlets and kings
The ones who thought they’d live for all time
Now they know the truth about silver wings.
Valdroma
I woke up in the middle of the night
And I saw a beautiful sight
It was an alien
An alien
And he brought us all a message --
“You’re not alone”
The mother ship landed the following night
Two dozen droids – man they were out of sight
And there were aliens
Little blue aliens
As they stepped on Mother Earth
They said “Nice to be home”
Well some people got excited
They had eyes real wide
Some were skeptical
Others terrified
Of the aliens
The little blue aliens
And their leader to the UN
He said “Come visit our world”
Through the wormhole at the speed of light
We reached Valdroma – I was turning white
And saw the aliens
A city full of aliens
As we landed on Valdroma
the child said “Welcome home”
Monkey Business
Jimmy’s got a scam on
He’s cooking books
No one's gonna know
How much he took
I said King Kong Chita
Mighty Joe
Lots of Monkeys on the go
I said Monkey business
Lots of monkey business going down
The Science Desk
Boron Life Forms - In my Novella, "Secrets of a Wormhole Civilization", I introduce a cyber-humanoid characters call Alloy-SIB. He is constructed from a Silicon-Boron alloy, which may be problematic since the element Boron is so scarce on Earth. Except for the fact that Alloy-SIB lives on campus at MIT more than 150 years in the future, when space travel is possible - along with mining Boron along the Asteroid Belt.
Slicon - Star Trek
boron-based life (daviddarling.info)
Wormhole Engineering
Biological Simulations
3D Printing
Bibliography
Framework for WAMS - Writing, Art, Music and Science
Like many people, I have been creating things along the way in my life's journey. As a youngster, I remember experimenting with the Wurlitzer piano that was in our front room in…
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