Recent content by CaraKboom

I've been trying to get my head around time dilation in order to understand the relationship between space and time. I do not have a maths brain, I tend to understand things better as narrative concepts. I've read a lot of introductory material, but I'm having trouble making the link between...

Hi! I've been reading articles (from back in 2008) that speculate on what could happen if one day, billions of years from now, the gravity of Jupiter were to pull Mercury out of orbit. One of the possibilities discussed is that Mercury could be ejected from the solar system...

Hey everyone, I'm an amateur and mostly unpublished writer with exactly 0 science background. As a life choice being completely ignorant of all but the most basic math has worked great for me so far. I regret nothing! Except that now I'm trying my hand at science fiction for the first time...