Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Astrophysics has to make sense, especially in a SF book. When designing your fictional worlds you need to make sure things can survive on their own, short of creating an alternate physical universe – and I won’t even start imagining how difficult…
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I have posted a while ago something about the music of space – ie, the eerie sounds celestial bodies make when translated into plasma waves. Today we have a different category of… artists: sub-atomic particles, and the amazing symphonies a…
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Today (or tonight, depending of your timezone) lucky people in North-America and part of Asia could watch one of the most beautiful shows known in nature, the so-called Bloody Moon – ie, a lunar total eclipse. In case you wonder, lunar…
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Conspiracy theories are like religion – they are a matter of faith, not reason (you may argue about religion: in this case, please get in touch with that mild-mannered and highly esteemed gentleman of Konisberg named Immanuel Kant. I’m nowhere bright…
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Post number four in the exoplanet series. Among variables considered so far, planetary habitability, age and distance have taken the spotlight. Today I’m going to talk about another important factor, especially because it has a direct impact on habitability: temperature. There are…
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I have read some days ago a nice article on IO9 discussing the Seven Wonders of the Solar System – from the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World of which only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains standing. Whilst I disagree with…
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Thanks to internet you have now access to a quantity of high-quality materials about space and stars simply unbelievable. You have only to browse what’s out there – and you never stop being amazed. Here you have a few (personal)…
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… you have no idea how and maths scared you since third grade. Some days ago I was chatting with a friend of mine. He told me he was writing a SF short story, and, after reading the summary, I volunteered as beta-reader….
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My latest published articles on Serious Wonder. Incidentally, there are also a few more on space and SF posted by other contributors – I do recommend having a look at them, they are really interesting (one is on time travel, a subject I am going…
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Keeping on the exoplanet series, after the general introduction and the presentation of the oldest one (so far) discovered, today I am going to address another interesting characteristic: distance. Distance matters, no discussion about it. I have already mentioned the importance of the…
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