Colton Gray
Bio
An aspiring 22 year old writer. Professionally placed in sales, hobbies in writing. Enjoy all of my pieces, god speed!
Stories (3/0)
A Fear We Have Now
What They Are: Viruses are small entities composed of protein and genetic information that can cause mild or severe symptoms in their hosts. Despite their size, viruses have had a significant impact on the history of life. While there is no conventional fossil record of viruses due to their fragility, molecular fossils can be found in the DNA of infected hosts, including humans. Paleovirology, a young field within paleontology, studies the genomes of hosts to trace the history of viruses. By comparing comparable sequences from different organisms, scientists can estimate the age of virus fossils. It has been estimated that 8% of the human genome includes sequences that originally came from viruses.
By Colton Gray9 months ago in Humans
Creation Then Destruction
Understanding: The enigmatic nature of black holes renders them one of the most captivating objects in our universe. These regions in space are characterized by an intense gravitational force that is so potent that even light, the fastest known entity in our universe, cannot escape. The boundary of a black hole is referred to as the event horizon, which marks a point of no return beyond which visibility is impossible. When an object crosses the event horizon, it collapses into the black hole's singularity, an infinitely small and dense point where the laws of physics, space, and time no longer apply. Scientists have postulated various types of black holes, with stellar and supermassive black holes being the most prevalent. Stellar black holes are formed when massive stars die and collapse, and they are scattered throughout the universe. Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, are significantly larger, measuring millions or even billions of times more massive than our sun. Although scientists can only speculate on how they form, they are known to exist at the center of most large galaxies, including our own. The detection and study of black holes are only possible through the observation of their impact on nearby matter, such as accretion disks and quasars. Black holes remained largely unknown until the 20th century, when Karl Schwartzschild, a German physicist, used Einstein's general theory of relativity to calculate that any mass could become a black hole if compressed tightly enough. The first black hole was discovered in 1971 by astronomers studying the constellation Cygnus. Countless black holes are scattered throughout the universe, constantly altering entire galaxies and inspiring both scientists and our collective imagination.
By Colton Gray9 months ago in Fiction
A World Of Heat
This summer, China experienced record heat and historic floods, yet there has been little public debate on climate change and what the world's top carbon polluter can do about it. Campaigners, such as Liu Jun Yan of Greenpeace East Asia, have called it a missed opportunity, and the coverage by mainstream media has been disappointing.
By Colton Gray9 months ago in Earth
