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In the twentieth century, scientists identified the elementary building blocks of nature: particles, atoms, and molecules are the constituents of all matter; genes, proteins, and cells are the components of life; bits, codes, and networked systems underpin intelligence and information. In this century we will begin to engineer new realities with th
... See moreThomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
while we cannot control the data that the universe provides, we can control how we go about seeking it, assessing it, and recalibrating our future scientific undertakings. The world of possibilities to which we choose to open ourselves, bounded by the evidence we collect and that we allow our collective intelligence to consider, very much determine
... See moreAvi Loeb • Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
I look at a forest from afar, I see a dark green velvet. As I move toward it, the velvet breaks up into trunks, branches and leaves: the bark of the trunks, the moss, the insects, the teeming complexity. In every eye of every ladybug, there is an extremely elaborate structure of cells connected to neurons that guide and enable them to live. Every c
... See moreSimon Carnell • Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force, which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the at
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Cosmology Without God?: The Problematic Theology Inherent in Modern Cosmology (Veritas Book 35)
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we) also produce interpreted versions of reality that they place in a dataome. Every equation of physics, or every computer simulation of how planets, stars, and galaxies orbit and evolve, is a bizarre imprint of an interpretation of the universe by the universe, built into the universe by the rearrangement of its atoms into brains, books, and hard
... See moreCaleb Scharf • The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
So fruitful has this abandonment of anthropocentric theories been, and so important in the broader history of ideas, that anti-anthropocentrism has increasingly been elevated to the status of a universal principle, sometimes called the ‘Principle of Mediocrity’: there is nothing significant about humans (in the cosmic scheme of things). As the phys
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