That’s the name of my newest book. Subtitled, “A Guide to Deep Thought,” it starts with a fall into a hole that is (you guessed it) a thousand miles deep. There is something different about a hole like that, when compared to other holes. Normally, if you fall off a cliff or into a deep hole, you die very quickly. Perhaps you have the proverbial “life flashing before your eyes,” but it has to flash quickly since you will hit bottom in mere seconds. But with a hole of a thousand miles, and the with humans reaching terminal velocity at around 125 miles per hour, you would fall for eight hours before certain death.
Or is death certain? That’s one of the many things I explore as I fall to my death all day long in Chapter One. This is an extended version of the classic “thought experiment” used by Albert Einstein and others. In Einstein’s case, he imagined things like running alongside a beam of light, or a man falling from a building. He used these exercises in imagination to change the face of modern physics.
In other chapters I look at many ways to think deeply and creatively about almost anything.
The book was really finished more than a year ago, but I got busy with many other projects. In order to get this one out there I finally decided to skip the paper version for now. The book has been published only on Amazon Kindle. You can get a copy here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006U1OQ2Q
Fortunately, if you do not have a Kindle reader, it costs nothing to get the version that you use on your computer, which is available here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311
And I have a website dedicated to the book, with excerpts and more, here:
http://www.thethousandmilehole.com
If you want to really add depth and creativity to your thinking, check out this book.
