Cosmology

The Pawnee Star Chart: An Indigenous Cosmos

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The Pawnee Star Chart: An Indigenous Origin Story and Cosmic Map

Imagine a world where the night sky wasn’t just a collection of twinkling lights, but a sacred map, a storybook, and a guide to the very origins of existence. For the Pawnee people, this was not imagination; it was their reality, embodied in a remarkable artifact known as the Pawnee Star Chart. Long before Europeans … Read more

The Universe’s Unlikely Blueprint: Does Math Prove Life Shouldn’t Exist?

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The Universe's Unlikely Blueprint: Does Math Prove Life Shouldn't Exist?

Imagine the universe as a vast, intricate clockwork. Every gear, every spring, every tiny cog must be in precisely the right place for it to function. Now, imagine that the very constants governing the universe – the strength of gravity, the charge of an electron, the mass of a proton – are like those precisely … Read more