I don’t believe, especially as an aspiring scientist, that I can call myself an atheist. At most I can claim to be agnostic for there is no way to prove that God doesn’t exist. Having grown up in the Southeastern United States, I was introduced at a young age to…

Why we may never want to use this technology — The truth is that teleportation already exists. It was theorized in a 1935 paper written by Einstein and two of his colleagues, Podolsky and Rosen. It was later proven in experiments during the 1990’s. For decades we have known that it is possible, at the quantum level, to teleport particles…

How we’ll replace our sun and avoid planetary doom — In the prequel articles, “When Jupiter Becomes a Star” and “When Earth Has 12 Suns”, we explored the idea of saving the doomed Earth from the aging sun. As a future red giant, the sun’s surface would extend out to the location of Venus and possibly beyond, condemning our planet…

Mankind’s artificial stars of the future — We are attempting to save planet Earth from the sun. In 1 billion years the star’s luminosity will have increased by 10%, causing a runaway greenhouse effect on the planet and boiling our oceans until Earth resembles its tragic sister planet, Venus. In 5 billion years this situation will become…

The fate of our Solar System — It is now common knowledge that mankind has harnessed revolutionary amounts of power, and in doing so has changed the fate of the environment for the worse. Our actions and lack of self-control have spread a wildfire across our home, endangering animals, people, and entire ecosystems alike. We are in…

It’s a question of “when”, not “if” — We need to make sure we’re defining AI the same way. There are two kinds of robots. The first is either controlled by a human being in real time or is programmed to do and say specific things. For example, The Predator is a drone designed to fire missiles at…

How we’ll journey deep into the stars — Mankind depends on exploration. We long to satisfy our curiosity for what lies in every direction, expanding trade routes and learning to adapt to new terrain. And while it used to suffice for us to explore the Earth, we’re now directing our gaze somewhere far from home. Star systems light…

And a good chunk of the rest of our solar system, too. — The idea of a Dyson sphere is a fascinating one. It’s a megastructure built around a star that would be capable of harvesting the star’s entire energy output. This sort of radiation-absorbing shell would provide enormous amounts of energy to a more advanced civilization. It was named after the astrophysicist…

There’s an answer to your helplessness — Imagine there’s a classroom where a teacher has handed out a paper to all the students. The paper is numbered 1–3 with each number having its own scrambled letters. The students must decipher these letters into a word. For example, the letters PCA could be deciphered into CAP. The students…