Look to the night sky and amid the vastness of space, you will find candles that have burned bright for eons. In their light, we find stories that take us back to a time when the universe was younger and darker. But, father time catches up to all of us. As they near the end […]
Read More HYPERNOVAS: Even bigger than supernovasThe universe has a penchant for cooking up all sorts of weird things. If it weren’t enough with black holes, supermassive stars, etc. astrophysics also postulates the existence of nuclear pasta, an exotic type of matter, within the interiors of neutron stars. To understand neutron stars, we need to know how stars behave. The bigger […]
Read More Recipe: Nuclear Pasta, Chef: Neutron StarBlack holes have captivated our imagination ever since they were first hypothesized by English astronomer and clergyman John Michell, all the way back in 1784. Michell proposed the idea of a celestial body so massive that even light could not escape it, referring to them as dark stars. Unfortunately, little was made of Michell’s hypothesis. […]
Read More Hide & Seek – Light From Behind a Black Hole EditionRecently, I was offered the opportunity to work with the team at PBS Spacetime, a Youtube Channel that explores all things crazy in astrophysics, and pretty much everything beyond our planet. Collaborating with the Spacetime team, I was responsible for Graphics Visualizations, in an awesome experience where we try to find means to illustrate and […]
Read More My first GFX project at PBS Spacetime: Vacuum Decay and the End of the UniverseRecently, I became a script writer for WatchMojo’s science channel Unveiled. My first project script had me address a topic in a field that I love: astrophysics. The question? What If We’re Living Inside A Black Hole? One of the more spectacular theories to come out of astrophysics involves the possibility that our universe exists […]
Read More My First Project at Watch Mojo’s Unveiled: What If We’re Living Inside A Black Hole?Life on earth, as we know it today, developed through an evolutionary process of significant complexity over millions of years. The details are still contested in the scientific arena, but general consensus states life originated around 4.0 billion years ago on the ponds and oceans of a primitive Earth. Back then, our planet was bathed […]
Read More Living in the Extreme: ExtremophilesThe basic actions of observation and introspection have been crucial to our growth as a species. Our ancestors gazed with great curiosity upon the star-studded night sky. Like moths to a flame, we were drawn to the expansive wonder that was the cosmos. Reminiscent of an unexplored ocean, it lay open for all to traverse […]
Read More Radio Telescopes: Listening to the PastScience and religion share a complex history in a mutually independent relationship that has had its phases of appreciation and harmony as well as division and conflict. Among the diverse personalities of the ancient world, it is Hypatia, a female Greek philosopher, whose life most personifies the strained dynamics of these two institutions. Hypatia, born […]
Read More Ancient Scientists – Chapter 2: HypatiaScience is a progressive endeavor. Our present knowledge of the world is founded on the speculations and introspections of our ancestors in a time when science was not just a field of study but an integral philosophy of life. As far as the ancients were led to believe, humanity was a mote of dust in […]
Read More Ancient Scientists – Chapter 1: Eratosthenes
The Procrastinating Scientist 