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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

Why have we more male geniuses?

Virginia Woolf - A Room For One's Own In the right conditions one can dare think. Nowadays we have better conditions and we see the numbers of women in stem and arts go up because they can afford to think of atoms and cosmology and painting and writing. Nowadays women are also allowed in... read more

Light

I was today's years old when I learned that atoms are held together by electromagnetism. The positively charged atomic nucleus and the negatively charged protons surrounding it exchange photons; this is called electromagnetism. Photons are the particles that make up light. Therefore, all matter is... (edited) read more

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

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

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Don’t give up. I know it sounds cliché, but it’s one of those truths that only makes sense when you’ve lived through a rough season. Time is a blessing in the sense that if you keep moving forward, something positive is bound to happen. The beautiful thing about life is that people,... read more