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Space & The Universe5 May 2026

Why is space silent — and what would it sound like if it were not?

Every science fiction space battle you have ever watched is acoustically completely wrong. The silence of space is not an aesthetic choice. It is physics.

Space & The Universe5 May 2026

If the Sun disappeared right now, how long before we noticed?

Space & The Universe5 May 2026

Is the universe fine-tuned for life, or are we just good at telling ourselves that?

Space & The Universe5 May 2026

Should we be trying to live forever, or is that a terrible idea dressed up as ambition?

Space & The Universe5 May 2026

Does the universe owe us anything?

The universe does not appear to have received the memo about fairness.

Space & The Universe5 May 2026

Is consciousness a thing, or just what it feels like to be a very busy brain?

The hard problem of consciousness is hard for a specific reason: it might not be solvable in the way we're used to solving things.

Space & The Universe5 May 2026

Are we alone in the universe — and would it matter if we weren't?

The universe is incomprehensibly large. The silence is either perfectly normal or profoundly strange.

Space & The Universe23 Apr 2026

Did you know that time has a direction, but the laws of physics don't require it?

Almost every fundamental law of physics works equally well forwards and backwards. The one exception might explain why you remember yesterday but not tomorrow.