The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of women’s constitutional right to abortion. The reason for this decision is nothing but religious conviction, hidden in a dim curtain of punchlines and legal technicalities. — The decision has fueled an old debate between essentially right-wing Christians and non-Christians. Christian right-wing Americans often want to twist the subject to be about pro-life vs pro-choice, hence building the case that life is not a matter of choice.

Scientists have for decades considered a spine-chilling possibility known as space tunnels, which could be used for time travels. As for now, we do not have the technology to travel in time, but advanced coexisting civilizations could already be using a network of space tunnels. — In the theory of relativity there seems to be a possibility of "tunnels" in the empty space, connecting different places in the universe. An extremely advanced civilization may be able to create space tunnels that make it possible to travel quickly between different areas of a Milky Way. …

Fundamentalists, or scholars as they like to call themselves, are often focused on the details in their specific area of interest, failing to see the overall picture and ignoring the obvious contradictions with other religious concepts. May I, respectfully, present two questions to these scholars? — Before I throw myself into the shark tank I would like to provide a background and context to these questions.

The period between 30–100 AD is when the Church Fathers laid the foundation to what would later emerge as the world’s biggest religion. Most of what happened during the first decades is shrouded in mystery, but we do know that during this stormy period in history, Christianity spread rapidly across the world. — The first century Palestine was a chaotic and deeply religious place. The country had been thrown into a long period of political turmoil, violence and religious disorder ever since the death of King Herod the Great. Rome controlled the territories by local kings or governors.

Theoretical concepts of infinity can rarely be translated into meaningful and understandable equivalents in the physical world. Many geometrical figures, concepts and paradoxes can serve as examples of mathematical truths losing their meaning when they are transferred to the world of physics. — Scientists, philosophers, poets, theologians and mathematicians have been pondering over infinity for centuries and will continue to do so for a long time to come. Infinity touches similar concepts such as immortality, eternity, timelessness and transcendence. …

The Russian chain of command for a potential nuclear strike is linked to the central military command — the General Staff. The purpose is to allow for senior-level decisions on nuclear weapons employment, but the General Staff as well as the whole Russian military have suffered from corruption for decades. What would happen if Putin gave the order? — The background The old nuclear order, established in the outcomes of the Cold War, existed long before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now, it is giving way to a looming era of disorder and unrest that hasn’t been seen since the beginning of the atomic age.

There is an Earth-like planet in our neighborhood, located just 4 light years away. It orbits in the habitable zone around our closest star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. How much time would it take us to travel there using today’s and future technologies? — Playing with numbers in Drake’s Equation has showed us that intelligent life forms may be few and far between. The nearest civilization may be thousands of light years away — if we are lucky. Finding a candidate among our closest neighbors must be considered extremely unlikely. But a planet may…

Perhaps I am just getting old, but I have just learned that Content Creator is an actual profession. I don’t quite know what to make of this information but it kept me busy for a couple of hours. — I assume that the concept of content creation has been around for a while but the fact that there is an actual occupation associated with this concept has passed under the radar. I didn’t immediately understand what it meant when I first heard about it. It sounded like “stuff maker”…

Recent studies suggest that “time” is an illusion. Humans seem to perceive time as something that runs “forward” and not “backwards”. But most laws of physics are symmetric, meaning time but could have easily moved in a backward direction as it does forward. Scientists now question why we interpret time in this way, but science itself seems to offer very little guidance in this matter. — Although time is regarded as an abstract concept, there is growing evidence that time is conceptualized in our minds in terms of space. Instead of thinking about time in a general, abstract way, we seem to think about time in a spatial way (directions) and mentally organize it as such…