The tools and techniques we use to measure even the largest distances on earth are almost completely useless in space. The stars, galaxies and other objects we see in the night sky are simply too far away from us for these methods to work. Measuring these immense distances therefore often…

Determinism is the idea that everything in the world around us is a result of the events that occurred in the past, and thus everything is predetermined, including human behavior. I’ve always had a problem with the idea of fate. Knowing that whatever happens to me is based on events…

Quantum mechanics is easily one of the most misrepresented and misunderstood domains of science. …

You know how sometimes you discover something very few people know about, a song with a few hundred streams, a game that’s criminally underrated, a book that almost no one knows about, and you sort of fall in love with that work of art. It might really be an amazing…

In 2013, the Planck collaboration released the data acquired by the Planck satellite, including the following image of the Cosmic Microwave Background or CMB. What you’re looking at is a map of the entire universe as it was more than 13 billion years ago. The image might look like a…

Dark matter sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film, and even though it’s not, it is just as mysterious and weird. For me, dark matter is one of the most interesting concepts in astrophysics, for a couple of reasons. The first one being it’s a very recent discovery…

Quantum mechanics is a weird and extremely unintuitive part of physics, but it has a few key ideas at its core. One of these ideas is the superposition of states or the dual nature of matter. We normally think of matter as particles, but over the years physicists have discovered…