Is human evolution a coincidence that violates the law of entropy? — The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. — Charles Darwin The Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. It was by chance that it formed, just like the inflationary universe, just like our galaxy, or…

A new mind-blowing theory: There may have been a second “dark” big bang right after the big bang. — If you think of the universe as a cup of coffee, as far as we know, the coffee itself will remind us of the dark energy that makes up almost 70% of the universe, the milk we will add will remind us of dark matter, and the sugar we will…

Scientists announced that they had rewinded time. — Researchers in quantum physics have long debated whether time travel and teleportation are possible. Now, the researchers say they’ve figured out how to turn these quantum particles’ clocks forward and backward. In their experiments, the researchers passed photons, the basic unit of light, through a crystal. So, using an experimental…

You had to make every choice and decision that affected your life already. — The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Do you regret any decision that you made? So let’s start this article with this sentence from quantum mechanics: if something could happen, it…

The first evidence of “cosmological coupling” has been found; black holes may be the source of mysterious dark energy. — What that means, though, is not that other people haven’t proposed sources for dark energy, but this is the first observational paper where we’re not adding anything new to the universe as a source for dark energy: black holes in Einstein’s theory of gravity are the dark energy.

Déjà Vu — “I’ve had this moment before.” Most of us have used this phrase at least once in our lives. There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is…

Large Pieces Breaking Off — Especially recently, there has been a serious increase in solar activity. In fact, most solar activity is harmless and causes short interruptions in shortwave, but the sun can produce more powerful bursts of energy that could disable satellites or other infrastructure. As we mentioned in an earlier article, these increases…

Besides being a new discovery, it spins very far in comparison to the typical ring systems we know. — Ring systems have fascinated us all. Especially Saturn’s rings, Quaoar is one of the planets consisting of distant known as trans-Neptune planets. About 3000 of them are known to exist. They are known as TNOs. As you might guess, TNOs exist outside of our solar system. The most well-known are…

Is it possible to live without the moon? — In the early part of our solar system, there was no system like the one we know now. There were protoplanets that were not in a regular orbit. …