Why do we dream?: A Sensory Deprivation Chamber Story
It was beyond darkness; it was emptiness. A short time ago, I went with some friends to spend 2 hours in a sensory deprivation chamber. As strange as that may sound, the idea behind the chamber is simply to eliminate all of your senses so that your mind is free [...]
We are the Sims
Think back to the video games of your childhood. Imagine that one of the characters in your favorite game had such advanced programing that the character itself became "conscious." What would this character in this video game simulation think? What would it believe? However strange it may seem, new evidence has [...]
What SpaceX Means to Space Travel
Ask any expert and they will tell you that SpaceX will not be the first to take a man to Mars. This is quite a strange consensus since Elon Musk founded his space technologies company for that exact purpose. He can even be caught repping the tagline, "Occupy Mars," across his [...]
Clues of a Lost Global Civilization
Heinrich Schliemann was the only archaeologist alive to believe that the legendary city of Troy was real. Guided only by a copy of Homer's "Iliad," he set out on the dry plains of the Turkish Peninsula to find his lost city. At the time, Troy was merely a myth; after [...]
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The Experiment that Changed Everything
For 4,000 years we have been fading into the background of existence. There was a time we thought our local world to be so privileged as we boasted ourselves the center of the universe. But soon the earth was round, we revolved around the Sun and not the other way around, [...]
Let’s Build a Warpdrive
If you have read our recent article, or any like it, then you already know about the incredible discovery of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves. And so, it is time for us to "nerd out" imagining what new technologies could arise from the discovery. It is time for us to build a Warp Drive. Yes, [...]
What are Gravitational Waves and why do I care?
(Image: one of two LIGO research facilities that detected gravitational waves, Washington State) By now you most likely have heard the news about the discovery of gravitational waves and that it is being lauded as the biggest discovery of the last century. So what is a gravitational wave? Image depicts warping [...]
The Semmelweis Reflex (famous only in death)
Revolutionaries play on a different timeline. They see further and their ideas live longer. Pushing past ridicule and ritual they open up new worlds so that when they die, instead of being forgotten, they are immortalized. Names like: Van Gogh, Galileo, Dickinson, Tesla, and Edgar Allen Poe come to mind. But what all these [...]
What is the largest animal ever to have lived?
The Blue Whale, so big you could swim through its veins.
When did Albert Einstein have his epiphany for the General Theory of Relativity?
While having a dream about electrocuting cows.
What is the most common scientific explanation for the uniqueness of our universe?
The Everett Many Worlds Theory: an idea that we live in only one of a multitude or infinity of parallel universes.
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