Spacetime

Plato once said, “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world into another.” Obviously, astronomy has always been an interest to mankind. We look up into the night sky and feel an urge, something pulling us towards the stars. Many people have been influential in discoveries involving the stars and the planets beyond. From Galileo Galilei to Stephen Hawking, we have learned and discovered amazing things about the universe, and in recent discoveries we have wondered if…

and eradicated diseases. But, since our beginning, we have also looked up. We have put satellites into orbit and people into space. We have described the laws of physics and have engineered the fastest spaceships. We have discovered the bending of spacetime from the presence of matter and have put a man on the…

For 13 years, the scientists of LIGO—the most ambitious, and expensive, project in the history of the National Science Foundation—had been waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been twenty-five years and more than half a billion dollars in the making. It involves 900 scientists and engineers, including many whose entire careers have been spent designing, building, and preparing to analyze data streaming in to LIGO. Their goal: To confirm, once and for all,…

How viable is time travel? Time; it organizes our lives and universe into an ordered series of moments. At first thought, time is one of the most fundamental aspects of our lives and the world we know. However, time is in fact incredibly subjective; everyone experiences this indefinable concept differently. Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity is based upon the idea of frames of reference. A frame of reference is where an observer is situated. In order to develop a universal concept of time…

There exists a game. A game older than time itself. This game is responsible for the genesis of every universe. Once a universe has reached maturity, the game will present itself to members of the species that it deems to be the most sentient and intelligent in that particular universe. Once the game presents itself to them, they will play the game. Upon playing the game, they will bring about the end of their world through meteors that are transported through portals just outside of the planets…