Wonder

How many times have you heard, “The best things in life aren’t things”? What if I told you that things aren’t even things at all? According to NASA, “things” as we know them constitute only […]

Real estate bubbles. Dot-com bubbles. And now— bubbles in the universe? Well, yes. In the Milky Way, anyway. It appears that a few million years ago—the mere blink of an eye in celestial time—our little […]

And the ocean– how big is that? Pretty big, as it turns out. Not big compared to the universe, or even our galaxy, but compared to what you see out your window? Pretty big. There […]

Many years ago I asked my brother, an astronomer, this question. I expected to hear “millions” or even “billions”. A big number, surely, but just remotely possible to comprehend. He shrugged somewhat apologetically and admitted […]