What if…?
Big, impossible questions, answered with real physics. Each one comes with a short dystopian story, an animation you can play with, a step-by-step timeline and the science underneath.
- What if Earth suddenly stopped spinning?The ground stops. Everything on it doesn't.Story: The Day the Ground Stood StillPune, 2094. Tara was forty metres underground when the planet stopped turning.Story, animation and science
- What if the Moon disappeared?Darker nights are the least of it.Story: The Year Without a MoonKoliwada, Mumbai. On the brightest full Moon of the year, the sky went blank.Story, animation and science
- What if the Sun vanished?For 8 minutes and 20 seconds, you would not notice a thing.Story: Eight Minutes and Twenty SecondsHanle Observatory, Ladakh. The Sun disappeared, and for eight minutes nobody knew.Story, animation and science
- What if you jumped into a hole through the Earth?You'd pop out on the other side in under an hour. Then fall back.Story: The Gravity Train2150. A company promises to fall you from Delhi to Chennai in 42 minutes, free.Story, animation and science
- What if everyone in India jumped at the same moment?1.4 billion people. One enormous jump.Story: Jump DayAn asteroid is coming. The government has a plan: everyone jumps at once.Story, animation and science
- What if gravity were twice as strong?Your schoolbag, and you, would weigh double.Story: Heavy YearOvernight, everything on Earth weighed twice as much. Nobody knows why.Story, animation and science
- What if Earth were twice as close to the Sun?Half the distance. Four times the sunlight.Story: Inner OrbitA passing star nudged Earth inwards. Now the Sun is four times stronger.Story, animation and science
- What if you fell into a black hole?It depends a lot on which one.Story: Horizon StationTwo black holes, one research station and a daughter who reads the safety manual.Story, animation and science