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At the subatomic level…

September 9, 2019Weirdo

At the subatomic level, space is never truly empty. It is filled with a writhing, active population of “Virtual Particles” that pop in and out of existence. Physicists call this “quantum foam”. Physicists theorize fluctuations from this field of energy may have given rise to the Universe.

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Most stars exist in binary or triple…

December 16, 2018Weirdo

Most stars exist in binary or triple star systems. It is hypothesized that up to 85% of stars are gravitationally bound to another star in a multiple star system. Therefore, solitary stars (such as the Sun) are actually not the norm in the universe, but in fact are a rarity.

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The Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus…

February 4, 2015Weirdo

The Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.

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Spaghettification is a term specifically used in astrophysics to describe…

August 28, 2014Weirdo

Spaghettification is a term specifically used in astrophysics to describe death from falling into a black hole.

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