Spacetime

same as dark matter. And, although we can detect black holes, we can’t actually see them. This is because a black hole will “continue to pull the mass inward on itself past the point of no return, creating an object of infinite density, a warp in spacetime so…

Faster-than-light travel (FTL) refers to matter travelling at a faster speed than light (c). In a vacuum, this speed is known as 2.998 x 108 meters per seconds. Based on the Theory of Relativity, it is known that objects with a mass cannot exceed the speed of light as they require infinite energy due to the increasing amounts of energy required for continuous acceleration (PhysicsLink, 2017). However, matters without mass, such as photons, can reach this speed (PhysicsLink, 2017). Nevertheless,…

As portioned out by Mr. Galfard, the information goes down easily; even a meaty morsel like this doesn’t offend: “Remember the catastrophic consequence on spacetime of an infinite number of particles appearing everywhere, all the time, in the vacuum of quantum field theory?” The book is rich in apt analogies, as in Mr. Galfard’s description of electromagnetism as the exchange of virtual photons: “Pearls of light…

could not have thought about, we can find a surprising link with Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation and Timothy Morton’s Hyperobject. Hyperobjects, described as “melting mirrors” that “they leak everywhere (and) they undulate back and forth, oozing spacetime all around them” (153), are in any form of the tempest controlled by magic, the strange ecological system-- Area X, and the sea-change outside the bottle, tends to turn human into “something rich and strange”, which the ending of human inside…

Stranger Things is a Netflix original series that takes place in 1983 Hawkins, Indiana. Throughout the first season, three boys discover the reality of another world that coexists with our own while trying to find their lost friend, Will Byers. With the help of a government experiment named Eleven, the boys are able to understand that Will is stuck in another dimension. Using the boys’ Dungeons and Dragons game board, she explains that Will is stranded a world very much like their own. According…

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, which is written by Mahmood Mamdani in 2004, discusses the aftermath of September 11, 2001. When this event occurred, Mamdani was in New York where he experienced the event and had seen how people viewed Islam as a political identity. Mamdani begins with modern violence, as he gives a critique of the cultural interruption of politics. Furthermore, he argues about how we should find an alternative way of thinking about the politics of Islam surrounding 9/11. He argues…

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…