Ask the Author: Pol Bard
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Pol Bard
According to a Wikipedia article on Wealth Inequality, a few people today own most of the world’s wealth, while an increasing number of people work long hours and are deeply in debt. Some of the rich few are oligarchs, financial kings that have used their wealth and power to buy elections and to lobby government to serve their interests rather than the needs of a free people. How is this different from the King of England and his subjects in America who were taxed without representation before 1776? America’s founding fathers rejected that system. They abandoned the principle that rich and powerful kings had the divine right to control the people and they replaced it with the doctrine that all people have certain inalienable rights.
We are also in a revolution of mind and robot. Our children utilize smart phones and the internet as their "peripheral brains." We talk to the internet and it talks back. We feel joy when the internet gives us a valuable piece of information, a favorite song, or a story. We get angry with it when it doesn’t understand our question.
There is also a revolution in physics taking place. Einstein’s relativity doesn’t blend in with quantum mechanics. Our telescopes indicate our universe has dark energy and dark mass, but no one really knows what these things are.
Combine all three of these and you have the building blocks for Star Doors Red, White and Blue.
According to a Wikipedia article on Wealth Inequality, a few people today own most of the world’s wealth, while an increasing number of people work long hours and are deeply in debt. Some of the rich few are oligarchs, financial kings that have used their wealth and power to buy elections and to lobby government to serve their interests rather than the needs of a free people. How is this different from the King of England and his subjects in America who were taxed without representation before 1776? America’s founding fathers rejected that system. They abandoned the principle that rich and powerful kings had the divine right to control the people and they replaced it with the doctrine that all people have certain inalienable rights.
We are also in a revolution of mind and robot. Our children utilize smart phones and the internet as their "peripheral brains." We talk to the internet and it talks back. We feel joy when the internet gives us a valuable piece of information, a favorite song, or a story. We get angry with it when it doesn’t understand our question.
There is also a revolution in physics taking place. Einstein’s relativity doesn’t blend in with quantum mechanics. Our telescopes indicate our universe has dark energy and dark mass, but no one really knows what these things are.
Combine all three of these and you have the building blocks for Star Doors Red, White and Blue.
Pol Bard
I’ll research a topic and spend some time wondering how to write about it. I’ll go to sleep at night with these thoughts in my head. I usually wake up the next day with an intriguing and inspiring approach in my mind.
I could go on about Einstein’s idea about God playing dice with the universe, and how this plays a role in our naturally-evolved ability to be creative, but that is something revealed and explored in my Star Doors books.
I believe everyone is born with a natural ability to be creative, but it’s important to exercise that creative ability; otherwise it will atrophy and disappear. Those who strive to be creative should not worry about reinventing wheels, as long as the experience of invention is a new and rewarding experience for them. I’ve invented a lot of wheels in my time. Reinventing wheels is all part of practicing for that moment when you create something completely new.
I’ve learned that if one consistently exercises their creative ability, inspiration will eventually come naturally, without much effort.
I’ll research a topic and spend some time wondering how to write about it. I’ll go to sleep at night with these thoughts in my head. I usually wake up the next day with an intriguing and inspiring approach in my mind.
I could go on about Einstein’s idea about God playing dice with the universe, and how this plays a role in our naturally-evolved ability to be creative, but that is something revealed and explored in my Star Doors books.
I believe everyone is born with a natural ability to be creative, but it’s important to exercise that creative ability; otherwise it will atrophy and disappear. Those who strive to be creative should not worry about reinventing wheels, as long as the experience of invention is a new and rewarding experience for them. I’ve invented a lot of wheels in my time. Reinventing wheels is all part of practicing for that moment when you create something completely new.
I’ve learned that if one consistently exercises their creative ability, inspiration will eventually come naturally, without much effort.
Pol Bard
I am always trying to learn about life and the universe, to find out how things work. I’ve always been that way.
What I have discovered is that life and love are the most powerful forces in the universe. In the words of one of my heroes, “Life and love are all about creating something out of nothing.” I think that applies to a newborn baby, a book, a world, and even the entire universe.
My current project has a working title I call “Chapter 19.” Chapter 19 in Star Doors Blue is about Alien Science. The grand unification theory presented there actually utilizes the work of many well-known and respected scientists. I hope to expand on it and find ways to test its conclusions, and of course, to write about what I have discovered.
I am always trying to learn about life and the universe, to find out how things work. I’ve always been that way.
What I have discovered is that life and love are the most powerful forces in the universe. In the words of one of my heroes, “Life and love are all about creating something out of nothing.” I think that applies to a newborn baby, a book, a world, and even the entire universe.
My current project has a working title I call “Chapter 19.” Chapter 19 in Star Doors Blue is about Alien Science. The grand unification theory presented there actually utilizes the work of many well-known and respected scientists. I hope to expand on it and find ways to test its conclusions, and of course, to write about what I have discovered.
Pol Bard
Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created.
Your final draft should move you and make you feel something intensely.
If you can do that, then that alone is reward enough for your efforts.
And if someone else shares your love, then you have done something amazing.
Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created.
Your final draft should move you and make you feel something intensely.
If you can do that, then that alone is reward enough for your efforts.
And if someone else shares your love, then you have done something amazing.
Pol Bard
What is the best thing about being alive?
All of us try to make our lives safe and predictable, but we also have intrinsic human needs to explore and evolve and create. Writing is one way I fulfill these needs. I don’t need a Star Trek Starship; I just need a pen and paper “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
What is the best thing about being alive?
All of us try to make our lives safe and predictable, but we also have intrinsic human needs to explore and evolve and create. Writing is one way I fulfill these needs. I don’t need a Star Trek Starship; I just need a pen and paper “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
Pol Bard
An odd thing sometimes happens when I close my eyes. I begin to see a totally random object or scene. It’s like having a small window into an infinitely-vast world of dreams.
I never know what I’ll see, but the things I see have structure and seem to have purpose. As a physicist, I’ve learned to control and shape images in my mind, to bend three and four dimensional graphs of objects to help me solve whatever problem I am working on. But the dream window is totally different and the things I see through it are totally unpredictable. Even the coloring is odd and alien.
The challenge is to focus on the image in the window, to find meaning in it and to create a world around it. At some point the dream becomes alive. I become the reader watching my magical pen take on a life of its own. It writes the words and I am the first to read them, eager to see what will happen next.
An odd thing sometimes happens when I close my eyes. I begin to see a totally random object or scene. It’s like having a small window into an infinitely-vast world of dreams.
I never know what I’ll see, but the things I see have structure and seem to have purpose. As a physicist, I’ve learned to control and shape images in my mind, to bend three and four dimensional graphs of objects to help me solve whatever problem I am working on. But the dream window is totally different and the things I see through it are totally unpredictable. Even the coloring is odd and alien.
The challenge is to focus on the image in the window, to find meaning in it and to create a world around it. At some point the dream becomes alive. I become the reader watching my magical pen take on a life of its own. It writes the words and I am the first to read them, eager to see what will happen next.
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