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Reflecting on Teleportation: Fiction vs. Physics

I know, I know, it's a huge text on a very specific topic, who's going to read it?But I need to post this thought somewhere 😁 The more I think about the idea of teleportation, like we see in movies, the more convinced I become of its practical impossibility. Fiction makes everything look simple,... read more

How much space can they need

Atoms are almost entirely empty space

Humanity and the universe

It is both strange and astonishing that atoms represent only 5% of the mass of the entire observable universe. Even stranger is that the trillions of atoms that make up us humans and everything else on Earth—such as hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, and a little calcium—are the very same elements... (edited) read more

Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything

we’re just atoms overthinking what other atoms think about us

The Shared Sky

Across the vast silence of the universe, the same space that keeps us apart is what truly connects us. ​Even though we are miles away, every piece of dust and every light from the stars in my sky belongs to yours, too. ​ No matter how wide the distance, my atoms will always be reaching through the... read more