Category: Universe
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Old theories. New theories. All the same… (?!)
When physicists translated a 13th-century Latin text into modern equations, they discovered that the English theologian who wrote it had unwittingly predicted the idea of the multiverse in 1225. While the work probably won’t advance current models, it does show that some of the philosophical conundrums posed by cosmology are surprisingly pervasive. In particular, Tom…
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The soul of the universe…
New stem cells can be created if you make the environment around normal cells, more… stressful (e.g. acidic). (1, 2) (although this discovery was later doubted – see here and here) Everything can become life. Life is in everything. What we consider dead, has the potential to become alive. What is alive, entails death. People in the…
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Time does not exist!
A toy universe made up of two photons only, helped scientists reach the conclusion that time does not exist. (1) We have built all too much on the elusive foundation of the passage of time. When that goes away all that is left is… nothing? Or everything?
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Universe, the Computer…
Using a molecular dimmer switch that smoothly dials up glowing lights in bacteria, researchers can make calculators in living cells that add, subtract, divide, and even do logarithms. [1] These analog computations are much more powerful than those of previous, digital-based biological devices, says study author Timothy Lu, a synthetic biologist at MIT. We make…
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