Category: Acceleration

Box Stories: Too Small to Lose

July 5, 2025 By arne hendriks Off

It seems boxes have a specific connection to smallness and shrinking. One of the more, if not most, surreal box stories can be found in the novel The third Policeman by Irish writer Flann O’Brien. In the book retired policeman MacCruiskeen has an interest in…

Power Amplification

November 28, 2024 By arne hendriks Off

Several species of small animals have evolved bio-mechanical power amplification to overcome the disadvantages of being small in a world dominated by bigness. Power amplification increases power beyond regular muscular levels through an elastic medium (e.g. tendons) able to catch and store large amounts of…

Seven-League Dolomites.

May 15, 2024 By arne hendriks Off

After spending many summer holidays trekking through the Swiss Alps, Dutchman Roel Wouters decided that perhaps it was time to take his walking boots to the Dolomites. Upon entering the Italian mountain range something seemed out of wack. Time and space behaved differently here. Roel…