A Poet's Thoughts, a Poet's Blood

I'm sure a lot of you have said something like "I have a theory!" at some point or another. Colloquially, we consider a "theory" to mean a hunch or a guess, something unproven or untested. But the issue is, in science, it means something completely different. The American Museum of Natural History  says that a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can incorporate laws, hypotheses, and facts." Britannica, Live Science, the National Academy of Sciences, and many more sources have similar definitions. Essentially, a scientific theory is an explanation of something we see in the universe around us (a natural phenomenon) that's supported by evidence and is most likely true. (In case you need a refresher on what scientific laws and hypotheses are,  LibreTexts  has a good article about it). What's especially important about scientific theories is that, because they describe natural phenomena, the...

Hi! My name is Arvin, I'm an aspiring writer and poet, currently studying astrophysics, mathematics, and creative writing in my university. I've always been creative as a kid, and use to think of these wild and crazy stories that drove my parents wild. Eventually, after years of them just begging me to write them down already, I started to write them down, and I soon fell in love with the craft. Now, I write whenever I can, be it short stories or novels or anything else I can think of. With this blog, I hope to share the things I've written with all of you, provide tips and tricks to help when writing, and really whatever else I can think of.  I've also always been entranced by the sciences since I was little, beginning with me being obsessed with dinosaurs. They were all I could talk about, and I wanted to be an archeologist or paleontologist to research more about dinosaurs. Eventually, though, my attention shifted from dinosaurs to the great expanse of space, and sin...