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It rains diamonds on gas giants: Deep within the high-pressure, high-temperature atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus, scientists believe carbon atoms are compressed directly into diamonds that rain down toward the planetary cores. (edited)

Lucky

In the vast expanse of endless space, Where stars ignite and galaxies race, A speck of dust, our home does lie, A place where life can't help but try. In the dance of atoms, we emerge, With beating hearts and voices urge, To marvel at the world so grand, And touch the earth with a grateful... 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

How much space can they need

Atoms are almost entirely empty space

The Eagle and the Rat

When I was a boy the world looked honest. There was truth. There were lies. Good people got rewarded. Bad people got exposed. At least that's what I thought. Then reality showed up. The strongest don't always win. The smartest don't always lead. And the people talking the most about virtue are... read more

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