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 WilliamsEpisode 73 of SfS — The Great Migration: Living on Uranus’ Moons — is now Live!Morning all! The Great Migration continues with this week’s latest episode and asks the question: “How may humans someday settle the…1 min read·May 7, 2024----
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----