Horizons—The New Nautilus Issue

[August 2, 2018 Chapter One: Patterns]( [READ ISSUE]( Dear Nautilus Reader, For sheer color, you can’t do much better than a black hole event horizon. It swallows everything without a trace, but it also evaporates. It may contain a wall of fire created by disentangling virtual particles. Unless it’s a fuzzball made of fundamental strings, in which case it has “hair” instead of a firewall. The zoo of possibilities reflects the collision of two of physics’ tectonic plates: quantum mechanics and relativity. Black hole horizons stand simultaneously at the limits of the observable and the knowable. But we still try to peer inside, which may be the best bit of the whole story. Welcome to “Horizons.” Best, Michael Segal Editor in Chief info@nautil.us [Our Attitude Toward Aliens Proves We Still Think We’re Special Why we downplay Fermi’s paradox. By Milan Ćirković]( One summer’s day in 1950, the great Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with the physicists Edward Teller, Emil Konopinski, and Herbert York at Los Alamos when the conversation turned to a flood of recent UFO sightings all over the United States. [Paid Advertisement Find frames to try at home (for free!)]( Answer a few quick questions, and we’ll send you 5 frames to take for a spin—free shipping both ways and all without leaving home. Find a winner? Warby Parker glasses start at $95, including prescription lenses. [Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning What math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives. By Noson S. Yanofsky]( Was it a chance encounter when you met that special someone or was there some deeper reason for it? [Paid Advertisement The Gravity of a Flat Earth]( If the Earth were truly flat, gravity would behave very differently than how it actually does. On a perfectly flat hemispherical Earth, which way would water flow after a storm? Find more arguments from gravitational physics that support a round Earth at Brilliant. [Looking for a Second Earth in the Shadows Scientists are blocking out the light of distant suns to look for life. By Lee Billings]( Some dark, clear nights, when the blazing stars cast shadows down on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the astronomer Olivier Guyon steps away from his workbench and computer screens and walks outside the giant 8-meter Subaru Telescope to savor the heavens. [READ ISSUE]( NautilusThink, Inc. 233 Broadway Suite 720New York, NY 10279 [Add us to your address book](//nautil.us6.list-manage.com/vcard?u=e299ad34aa80671ada72a819a&id=dc96ec7a9d) Copyright © 2018 NautilusThink, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list](   [update subscription preferences](