As the tourism industry grows, it is important to know as much as possible about your destination, especially if it is a country with a high potential for contracting an infectious disease. […]
The pandemic has people worldwide feeling nostalgic for air travel. Airlines and entertainment companies have begun offering alternatives to real travel for those who miss flying. Airplane seating is a game of incentive and asymmetry. […]
Jinn are self-created objects with no causal origin. Some people argue that since there is no explanation for why they exist, and time travel into the past would entail they could exist, then time travel to the past must be impossible. But it’s not that simple. […]
Science fiction genre often uses time travel for entertainment and drama. They usually don’t get it right and leave too many plot holes. […]
Closed time-like curves, which wormholes can create, are possible in our universe, and they could theoretically allow one to travel in time. […]
The possibility of time travel has been raised by something called a quantum eraser, which showed that quantum entanglement not only holds across long distances, but also backward in time. […]
In ‘Interstellar’, Cooper, the protagonist, travels to a planet around a black hole, which is where we get perhaps the most scientifically accurate depiction of time travel in all of sci-fi. […]
The speed of light is matter’s fastest speed, but maybe humankind can cheat it. A new scientific theory notes that spacetime itself moves faster than light, so bending a bubble of space around a ship could work. The Cherenkov Effect is a fascinating exception. […]
The 18th-century satire, “‘Gulliver’s Travels” is hard to categorize, employing and often mocking conventions from travelogues, political philosophy, even utopia. […]
As the world self-quarantines and works from home, cabin fever can set in. A photo essay uses a series of photographs to wordlessly tell a full story. A proper photo essay balances many factors of a story. […]
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