Ken Doggett

Science Fiction author Ken Doggett has been writing for many years, beginning with short stories published in prominent and not-so-prominent Science Fiction magazines: Space & Time and Shayol, among others. Now, like many modern writers, he has chosen to directly publish his novels and short-story collections.

He was born in Atlanta in 1945, grew up in next-door DeKalb County, and developed a love for reading right after he discovered the school library. He read almost everything, but was especially fascinated by the fantastic tales of spaceships, space exploration, and conflict among the stars. He soon became familiar with the writers who would influence his own work: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, and later, Larry Niven and Harlan Ellison. He graduated from Avondale High School just outside Atlanta, and after a stint in the U.S. Army assigned as a radio mechanic to the 2nd Armored Division at Ft. Hood, Texas, he worked in the field of electronics and electronic technology. After many years of reading all of those great Science Fiction stories, he decided, "I can do that," and wrote some of his own. In July 1981 he sold his first published story, Timestopper, to Amazing Stories. Eventually, with more of his stories reaching publication, he became a veteran writer in the Science Fiction genre.

But he has done more in the arts than write a few stories. He also paints, and he created and sold a few landscape paintings, both oil and acrylic. You can view some of these on his website. He currently lives in a rural farming community in Morgan County, Georgia, where he writes full time.

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• Rediscovering the Universe : The beginning of the Final Revolution : Universal Theory of Relativity on Oct. 04, 2016
  
  From the first time I began to read in-depth about Quantum Mechanics, I had a problem with it. I'm no mathematician, but it doesn't take one to see how fragile that house of quantum cards can appear when you study its foundation. Scientists predict particles and, voila! they suddenly appear exactly as predicted. And then you have fudge factors, like Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle, and Einstein's limit of the speed of light, which obviously is violated by the interactions of certain particles, and requires the concepts of "infinite mass" and "singularities." Although the author praises Albert Einstein, and says his contributions to science are beyond price, he states, "...in the wake of Einstein's general theory of relativity, the universe has become full of infinities." He goes on to say that "Even in Quantum theory of Gravity, attempts to remove singularities have not been convincingly successful...The Uncertainty Principle has, in fact, created another tedious situation." And in regard to what he calls the dubious mathematical method of renormalisation, "[It] involves cancelling of infinities by introducing other infinities." Javed Jamil asks a lot of questions in his book that seem to impact directly on the fragility of the quantum concept, such as "How does gravity propagate and influence the whole universe?" "Why did the universe begin at Singularity?" and "What caused the Big Bang?" But he goes much further, and challenges some of the established concepts while proposing proof for a Unified Theory of Relativity. He questions also the concept of how the universe expanded after it was born. He says, "It is ironical to believe that present laws were derived from a situation where these laws had no tangible or perceptible existence," and he speaks of the Horizon Paradox, puzzled at how the universe experienced such huge transformations within the first second, when it had already expanded so far that the transformations had to occur faster than the speed of light. It seems odd, too, that the speed of light is so minuscule in comparison to the apparent size of the universe. Javed Jamil makes the case that his Universal Theory of Relativity would solve many, if not all, of these problems, and proposes that the universe is rotating, not expanding. He adds that the UTR talks of the birth and death of the universe as a whole (not expanding into nothingness, not contracting into a singularity), with various stages in between. The book does have its problems. The author's theory requires some input of energy from outside the universe, and he eventually states that the source of this energy can be none other than God. However, although he continues to hold this as fact through to the end of the book, he provides no evidence for it. Whatever your believe is about God, or the lack thereof, the case is not made in this book that any source of energy from outside the universe must be a God or gods. That doesn't spoil the other revelations proposed within the book itself. The book provides a good ground for current theory, and the author's skepticism and counter proposals made me think, and thinking is always good. As I stated at the outset, I'm no mathematician. Neither am I a physicist. I can't say unequivocally that everything presented in this book is valid; I can say only that the part covered by my own meager knowledge seems accurate. I downloaded this book for free from Smashwords; however, the Kindle edition is available at Amazon for 99 cents. In spite of its not actually making the case for the author's most ambitious concept, I found the book fascinating because of its thought-provoking theories and ideas, and that, all by itself, deserves a solid 5 rating out of 5 stars.