PinnedMatt WilliamsDownfall: The End of Putin’s RussiaAfter more than twenty years of autocratic rule, murder, human rights abuses, and unbridled aggression against his neighbors, Putin’s…Jul 10, 202311Jul 10, 202311
PinnedMatt WilliamsPersonal Milestone: I Finally Get Relativity!In life, it is good to set personal goals. Not just the big and life-changing kind, mind you, I’m talking about the little things that help…Jan 19, 20225Jan 19, 20225
PinnedMatt WilliamsA Humble Attempt at Predicting Future HistoryA fictitious timeline of the future, from tomorrow to 1 billion years from now.Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023
PinnedMatt WilliamsA New Scale for Classifying Intelligence?In the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), there are many limiting factors. These go beyond the usual technical limitations…Feb 22, 20221Feb 22, 20221
PinnedMatt WilliamsThe Decline and Fall of the American EmpireThis is an opinion piece, but an informed one (if I say so myself). I invite debate and contradiction, but I ask that people not write in…Sep 22, 2022Sep 22, 2022
Matt WilliamsEpisode 78 of SfS — Where is Everybody? The Percolation Hypothesis — is now Live!This week’s episode was one of the last installments in my series exploring the Fermi Paradox (i.e., “Where are all the aliens?”). This…Aug 28Aug 28
Matt WilliamsExogenesis“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last…Aug 21Aug 21
Matt WilliamsEpisode 76 of SfS — Where is Everybody? The Waterworlds Hypothesis — is now Live!In this week’s episode, I returned to the ongoing segment about Fermi’s Paradox (“Where is Everybody?”), which focuses on another proposed…Jul 30Jul 30
Matt WilliamsEpisode 75 of SfS — “The Grand Tour: The Legacy of the Voyager Probes” — is Now Live!This week’s episode was dedicated to the probes, and it was a long time in the making! Launching in 1977, these two probes explored the…Jul 22Jul 22
Matt WilliamsExcept that all of these polls indicated that both Sanders and Clinton had a massive lead on Trump…Anyone capable of reading and doing basic math can see that this was the decisive factor in the election. It reduced Clinton’s 7 point lead…Jun 162Jun 162