Poetry : Dawn of the Dead…Planets

A Sequence of Clerihews. From Romeo Esparrago. I. The Undertaker. White dwarf J thirteen-twenty-eight Long ago met its fiery fate; Now, cold and tidy as a tomb, It keeps a graveyard in the gloom. II. The Inner Ghoul. The inner survivor, a few kilometres wide,Is the zombie that lived when its neighbors died;It shuffles a … Continue reading Poetry : Dawn of the Dead…Planets →

Story : The Unfinished Amplitude, Part One

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From Romeo Esparrago. Part One : The Memory of Spacetime. A wave passes, and the detector does not come back to where it was. It comes back almost. That "almost" is permanent. We call it memory, and it is the most ordinary thing in the universe: everything that has ever happened has left the world … Continue reading Story : The Unfinished Amplitude, Part One →

News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection?

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The Universe Is Flatter Than You Think. The Cosmos, Now in 2D. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is a Chicago-born theoretical physicist of Cuban and Polish descent. As a teenager she taught herself to build and fly a plane, which makes most of our teenage hobbies look like a rounding error. She went on to finish first … Continue reading News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection? →

News: Lunar Cities Need Water

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Scientists argue that large lunar cities are likely unsustainable because there is not enough water ice in the Moon’s polar cold traps, even though power would be plentiful from near-permanent sunlight on crater rims. A new analysis estimates that even an optimistic 1 billion tons of ice would support a million-person settlement for only a … Continue reading News: Lunar Cities Need Water →