This book is a collection of my life’s greatest hits (and misses). Through hilarious mishaps, heartfelt lessons, and a few emotional potholes, it reminds us that growing older doesn’t mean figuring it all out. It just means laughing harder when you don’t. For anyone who’s ever thought, “Surely I should know better by now.”
The Renewable Future
Grid at the Edge
Proof of Power
Beautiful Croatia
Why Your System Doesn’t Sound Right (And How to Fix It)
The Search For Life Beyond Earth
Everyday Physics: Fun Science You Can See and Feel
Mazda ND Performance Enhancements for Street and Autocross
Turbocharging Normally Aspirated Engines on a Budget
High Performance Fieros
The Physics of Consciousness and Artificial Minds
Entangled in Risk: Navigating the Ethical Frontier of AI
Cyber Security and AI Frontiers: Defending Tomorrow’s Digital World
AI and You: The Future is Now
Everyday Quantum: Discover the Invisible Forces Shaping Your World
Demystifying String Theory and M-Theory Without Equations
Understanding Loop Quantum Gravity Without Equations
Bulk‑Coupled Cyclic Multiverse Cosmology: A Framework for the Ensemble Universe
Photons as Particles and Waves: The Dual Nature of Light
Is There a Replica of Me in and Alternate Universe?

Robert “Greg” Wagoner is an electrical engineer and author who spent nearly four decades, from 1985 to 2023, designing power electronics and power systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Ohio Northern University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. His early work covered converters and controls for aircraft, spacecraft, elevators, and industrial motors. From 2001 on he focused on wind and solar power, and he finished his career as a Chief Engineer at GE Energy, leading teams from concept through prototype qualification to production. He holds 153 U.S. patents and 174 international patents.
Audio has run alongside his engineering career from the start. In college he was chief engineer of the campus radio station and worked summers as a live sound engineer. He also designed a rack-mount amplifier for bands that later sold about a hundred units under the Cincinnati Sound Supply brand. He has since designed and built speakers of nearly every type and tests them on his own calibrated measurement bench.
His personal technical library now holds more than 700 volumes, and his interests run from antique radios and two decades of autocross to engine swaps and quantum mechanics. His books cover the same range: faster cars, AI ethics, cybersecurity, the search for life beyond Earth, renewable energy, and physics, along with the personal stories in Lessons With Scars.
“Wagoner’s unique strength is not simply science writing. His work applies rigorous engineering-style analysis to scientific questions that fascinate ordinary readers. Rather than approaching topics as either a theoretical physicist or a pop-science entertainer, he examines them as an engineer auditing reality itself.
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