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…7 min read·Jul 10, 2023--11--11
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…5 min read·Jan 19, 2022--4--4
PinnedMatt WilliamsA Humble Attempt at Predicting Future HistoryA fictitious timeline of the future, from tomorrow to 1 billion years from now.15 min read·Mar 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…2 min read·Feb 22, 2022--1--1
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…7 min read·Sep 22, 2022----
Matt WilliamsThe Soup You Swim In…In 2011, Jon Stewart went on Fox News and was interviewed by Chris Wallace about what Wallace described as his tendency to “take shots at…6 min read·17 hours ago----
Matt WilliamsEpisode 72 of SfS — The Gift of Gravitational Lensing (with Dr. Slava Turyshev) — is now Live!This week, my guest was Russian-American physicist Dr. Slava Turyshev, a Senior Research Scientist, Technologist, and Project Manager at…2 min read·Apr 27, 2024----
Matt WilliamsEpisode 71 of SfS — Voices of the Future: Frank Herbert — is now Live!This week’s episode picked up a series that I began long ago but then left untouched! Voices of the Future was intended to pay tribute to…2 min read·Apr 18, 2024----
Matt WilliamsEpisode 70 of SfS — The Crisis in Cosmology: What is the Hubble Tension? — is now live!This week’s episode deals with a rather pressing matter for astronomers and cosmologists. Shortly after Einstein revealed his Theory of…2 min read·Apr 12, 2024----
Matt WilliamsEpisode 69 of SfS — Rendezvousing with an Interstellar Object (with Dr. Alan Stern) — is now live!Hello all, it’s been a while, I know. Life has been crazy lately. Luckily, I’ve managed to find the time to podcast again. For this latest…2 min read·Apr 5, 2024----
