Tag Archives: cosmology
Abiogenesis
YouTube – The Origin of Life – Abiogenesis – Dr. Jack Szostak How stable, self-replicating structures might develop, entirely through chemical processes. (via Slashdot thread)
Neal Pollack — Science Friday
I hadn’t visited Neal Pollack’s site in I really don’t know how long. Found a link in Ye Old Blogrolle, and yes, he’s still doing the business. Recently, Neal Pollack and son have been brainstorming on cosmology: Elijah in the … more…
Kevin Kelly: God Is the Machine
In which Kevin Kelly advances the proposition that our universe is made up entirely of information, which is to say, digital, and then deals, after a fashion, with the follow up – if the universe is information, what is that … more…
What Did Poe Know About Cosmology?
Nothing. But He Was Right. it seems that Edgar Allen Poe ‘prediscovered’ (horrible word) what we now understand as the Big Bang in 1848, and published his thoughts as a prose poem called Eureka. “From the one particle, as a … more…
An alternative to the Big Bang
New Theory Proposed by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok Provides Alternative to Big Bang: Department of Physics, Princeton University – new cosmologies always welcome! (via Rebecca’s Pocket and csmonitor)