The All Consuming Darkness: Black Holes Pt.1

What Are Black Holes?  A black hole is a region of spacetime that has a such a strong gravitational field that nothing, not even light can escape it. It is a lot of matter condensed into a very very small area. In our galaxy alone ( the Milky Way), there are approximately 100 million black …

The Life Of A Hydrogen Bond

Hydrogen bonding is a chemical phenomenon universally exhibited in the molecular processes of Earthly (terrestrial) life, yet oftentimes neglected in popular scientific discourse. In this article, the defining properties of the hydrogen bond and its relation to life as we know it will be explored. More tentatively, what parallels and implications could be possibly drawn …

Global Warming and a Nuclear Alternative

Global warming is the increase in temperature across the earth’s atmosphere and oceans, over the past 100 years due to the industrial revolution the temperature of the earth has increased by 1.6 degrees. Global warming is happening due to many human activities the a few of which are deforestation, the increased use of fossil fuels …

Deductive, Inductive and Abductive Reasoning

Continuing on the theme of exploiting and explaining misconceptions, I wish to make it clear today the idea of different forms of reasoning. While these concepts are very well defined in formal logic, these definitions often clash with their meanings in common contexts - a problem so common in the sciences that it leads now …

Charge, Parity and Time Symmetry

  Our universe is built upon symmetry. In fact, we believed that there were three symmetries to the universe that had to be unbreakable. Charge symmetry - this means that the universe wouldn’t care if all positive and negative charges were swapped, everything would behave normally. It is only the opposite interaction that counted. The …

The Extent of Our Technology

The focus of this article is going to be post-modern technology and how we have hit a technological limit in terms of our processing speed and power. For the past 5 decades, our technological capabilities have been increasing at an exponential rate, especially the power of our processors. The problem, however, exists when we require …

Infinities

Infinities An often misunderstood topic within mathematics is that of the infinity, and what it represents. Infinities have been misinterpreted to justify everything from bad mathematics to strange, conspiracy-esque mysticisms. One of the concepts that have been abused is that of countable and uncountable infinities - the idea that some infinities are “larger” than others. …

Building Our Universe

As mentioned in previous articles, we are all limited in advancement due to our perception of what is around us. We can perceive 3 dimensions of space, but is there a possibility of more dimensions? Another question arises regarding how finely tuned our universe really is. There are around 20 numbers which are exactly the …

Our Place In The Universe

Our universe has been around for about 13.8 billion years. Right from the very start, it has been expanding faster than the speed of light. This means that many galaxies today are moving away from each other at incredibly fast speeds. Not because this is their actual speed but because of the space in between …