Orbis - The Abyss Lead Image Source https://pixabay.com/es/el-calentamiento-global-2958988/ Isaiah sat down on the edge of the precipice and looked down, he could see his bare feet dangling and below them, a dense brownish mist, hiding the bottom of the abyss, a deep acrid smell flooded everything around him. He turned around, looking over his shoulder, he could see a row of dying trees blackened by the smoke from the factories that obscured the horizon on the other side of…
Orbis - The Furnace The transport glided along, emitting its hoarse sigh for several minutes, before coming to an abrupt halt. As the doors opened, an intense blast of heat was felt from the outside, while a profuse smell of rotten eggs pervaded everything and a hypnotic amber glow peeked through the doors. -If you haven't put on your helmet and mask, do it immediately, - Rivas was heard to say. Isaías could see how two rows in front of him, Hilbert, one of the new workers…
Orbis - The Diggers The mist was very thick between the canyon walls that morning, it almost reached the entrance of the mine, - the activity in the forgotten area must have been intense that day - thought Aurora, to the south the clouds could be clearly seen and their usual ochre color, forming an almost uniform layer. -The sky was blue, with clouds that were sometimes white and sometimes gray - her aunt Julia used to tell her; she never saw them, it was a story her…
Orbis - The Forgotten Zone The sun's glare could be seen through the clouds high in the sky, it was the hottest time in the mine, the temperature must have been around forty degrees, Ivan sat leaning against one of the wheels of the gigantic dump truck, one of those that transported the material to the forgotten zone, he took out of his backpack a cloth bag in which his mother had carefully packed; three bread rolls, a container of boiled eggs and a piece of dried meat, plus…
Orbis - Aurora -A blue sky! - Aurora shouted as she looked at the east wall of the canyon; she could see the Antenna, a huge building made entirely of metal, which her aunt Julia had told her was used for communication a long time ago, but now it was only a fossil of a remote past, unknown to all of them today. -A long time ago it was possible to communicate through the air, -Julia told them, in her eagerness to show them what the world was like before Orbis, -There were…
Let's Talk About Galaxies https://pixabay.com/es/photos/galaxy-cielo-estrellado-estrella-11139/ One of the qualities of all matter is its capacity to organize itself to form complex structures, and although it may seem that this contradicts the second law of thermodynamics, in reality it is nothing more than an expression of it. The four fundamental forces have the capacity to build, from the quantum world to the cosmic scale, structures that scale in levels of complexity;…
The Multiverse and Time Travel: From Comics and Movies to Theoretical Physics (I) There is a concept that will be familiar to any comic book fan, at least for those who follow those of the two major publishers of this type of publications, Marvel and DC Comics, which, to reconcile the variety of series, characters, scenarios and sometimes versions of the same characters and scenarios, that exist between the pages of their series, have adopted the concept of the multiverse. A…
Orbis - Axia Section 24 was a crowded block of apartments located at the northern end of Axia, in it lived almost a third of the population of the city; after the southern blocks had been evicted, because of the great concentration of the mist, almost all its inhabitants had been moved there, its initially wide corridors were now almost impassable, because of the merchant stalls offering their wares and the immense swarm of its inhabitants. It was the largest section of the…
Orbis - The Library The walls of the room were painted in a sterile white color, without any ornamentation to alter its monotony, about twenty tables occupied the entire place, in them each and every one of the two hundred chairs were unoccupied, in the background could be seen the coming and going of those in charge of the historical documents room. Hilda stood up and walked slowly to the glass door that separated the two rooms, her forty-eight years were already weighing…
Orbis - The Catacombs Hilda leaned back in her chair, she had already spent eight hours reading the thick copy and it was beginning to get dark, she would have preferred not to have to take it back to the historical texts room, but soon it would be closing time and she could not take the book out of the library, fortunately for her there had been little movement today, only a couple of engineering students who had dedicated their afternoon to prepare for next week's…
Orbis - Farewell to La Villa He had spent his whole life in that small house and now he had to leave. All his childhood was spent in La Villa, it was his world, the only thing he knew; after the death of his mother, Ivan decided that the best thing he could do was to go to live with Alessia, his mother was the only thing that still kept them in the villa. Shortly after Aurora turned twelve, her mother fell ill, as her aunt Julia did some time before, Ivan said that it must…
Orbis - Alessia A long stretch of monorail separated Axia from Alessia, although the trip took about six hours, Aurora had the feeling that she had been sitting in her seat next to the window for days, even if it was not much she could see due to the speed at which they were moving, it was more than she had ever seen in her entire life. On its way, the monorail crossed about eight villas larger and more colorful than La Villa, a bridge over a lake of beautiful greenish…
Orbis - The Sandwich Kiosk Peter and his father's small food stand was located near one of the exits of the square in front of the library of the University of Alessia, although it was not one of the most popular among the students, the income they had was enough to be able to live quietly, the vegetable omelets and rye flour buns filled with grains and mushrooms that were their specialty, had a loyal clientele that delighted in them, they were a change from the meat and…
Orbis - The Sea For someone who had spent her whole life in front of a dry river bed and water was a luxury that few people in the village could have at home, being in front of the sea for the first time was absolutely overwhelming. Ivan urged her to take off her old boots and put her feet in the water, but Aurora refused to do it, the imposing sight and the fierceness of the waters overwhelmed her, she felt as if they were oppressing her abdomen and making it difficult for…
Are we insignificant? Yes, we are insignificant, Who are we? … Does our existence have any value for the cosmos …? What is our role in everything that exists …? Are inconsequential questions. Our search for meaning is no more than a form of complacency, a reflection of our desire to be more important than what we actually have, it is part of our justified inferiority complex. If we look at the universe, we will realize that, for everything that exists, we are simply one more…
The End of Everything Time is the death sentence from which nothing escapes, even time itself had a beginning and will have an end, in this publication I try to explain what this end will be like. Previously I made a publication, trying to explain the origin of everything that exists, understanding everything to the universe, of course, my idea was, in broad strokes, to present the events that occurred in the moments after the Big Bang, not to explain literally the origin of…
How Old is the Universe? Greetings to all. the universe is 13,700 million years old. but the answer to the question is not as easy as it seems, how do we know how old the universe is? Until about 100 years ago, there was a firm belief that the universe was eternal, had always been there and always would be, its state was static. This belief led Einstein to incorporate in his equations of general relativity, the cosmological constant, as a mechanism to avoid the collapse of…
Orbis, Between Books The days passed faster than they had ever passed in Aurora's life, for the first time she was in a place that was not La Villa and she did not stop being fascinated by what she saw, it was not only the sea, the gardens, the big trees in the library square, and the library. In La Villa only Aunt Julia and the school had books and neither had as many as that gigantic building. Ivan worked most of the day and as she had nothing better to do, she spent most…
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