On Christmas Day of 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope, a 10 billion dollar spacecraft with capabilities out of science fiction. This telescope is considered an unmatched scientific and engineering marvel of our time with the main purpose of discovering the origins of our universe. Let’s imagine that…

The Science Behind Photographing a Black Hole — On May 12, 2022, the second-ever photo of a black hole was taken. This time astronomers photographed Sagittarius A, a black hole much closer to earth, at the center of our milky way galaxy. Not too long ago, 4 years back the discovery of the first black hole Messier 87…

How does an electric guitar produce sound? — Bohemian Rhapsody plays live, and the whole crowd goes crazy. Lyrics are screamed, and the massive crowd of Queens fans looks like a choppy ocean–waves rising and falling–as each individual jumps and claps. The music echoes, booming into the cloudy sky, and despite the noise, the sweat, and the cramped…

We grew up with superheroes around us. I am not just talking about our parents or teachers, but the superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Power Rangers, the Incredibles, etc. During my childhood, I looked up to them and wanted to have the powers they did. Now after taking…

A year ago, my family and I were out on a road trip to Bisbee, Arizona and we stayed in a cabin for the night. In the cabin, before falling asleep, I was thinking about cosmology and planetary motion. Everything I learned in my AP Physics1 class had to do…

E = mc²: The world’s most famous equation discovered by the world’s most famous scientist. We’ve all heard of it in some way or another, but can you explain what it means? As Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” As a…

In 1915, Albert Einstein created the General Theory of Relativity (In my last blog, I covered this theory which included curvatures in spacetime, and its effects on matter and time). After finishing his General Theory of Relativity, Einstein predicted that gravity can also exist in the form of waves called…

Many people have heard about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It sounds cool and nerdy, and many think they know a thing or two about it. When you go down two minutes into a conversation about general relativity people tend to drop out of the conversation because not many know what…

While watching a movie with my family, I came across a Charmin ultra soft commercial that claimed their newest toilet paper roll, The Charmin Ultra Soft Super Mega Roll Toilet Paper, had six times as many toilet paper sheets compared to a regular toilet paper roll. The Charmin ultra soft…