Where Did Gold Come From?

We constantly hear talk of ‘striking it rich with a gold deposit’, especially from the gold-rush days of the 1800’s. But where did gold come from? How was it created? And why is it so prevalent on Earth when Earth formed 3.8 billion years ago? As a...

Space Warfare

  How effective is warfare in space? Can lasers and missiles really hit moving objects from a distance in space? We have all read about it and seen it in science fiction books and movies. Ships firing at each other from huge distances and somehow directly striking...

Habits

Our lives are filled with habits from when we wake up in the morning to when we retire for sleep. Humans can’t function without them. We’d be so preoccupied thinking about every little task we do, we would only achieve a fraction of our day’s...

Protostar Jupiter

Could Jupiter collect enough matter to initiate fusion and become a star? Scientists say it would need to increase in mass by 1300 times to start glowing from nuclear fusion, the increased pressure from gravity raising the core temperature to the ignition point for...

Paradox of Wormholes

If wormholes large enough for humans to traverse exist, what could we use them for? Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on General Relativity or Quantum physics, so take what I say here with a grain of salt. A bit of imaginative thinking, maybe. We know it...