How to Avoid a Cosmic Catastrophe

Cortez Deacetis

Visualize an sophisticated civilization somewhere in the universe, which designed a particle accelerator that collides electrons at the Planck strength, the scale where by gravity should be explained quantum mechanically. This energy scale is no smaller feat for a collider, as it corresponds to ten quintillion (1019) periods the relaxation […]

Cosmic Rays and the Handedness of Life

Cortez Deacetis

Scientists have pondered a secret about everyday living for at least a century: Many organic molecules appear in two mirror-graphic versions, just like human fingers in point, they are regarded as “right-handed” and “left-handed.” Normal chemical reactions deliver close to equal quantities of both types of molecule. But the sugars […]