Tag: Universe
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Universe as a computer. Humans as... ?
A future form of computing could see information stored on clusters of microscopic particles suspended in liquid. Clusters of spheres can arrange themselves around a central sphere in a limited number of ways, similar to how a Rubik's cube can only be twisted in certain ways around the central point. Sharon Glotzer at the University…
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Science providing explanations. Heart providing guidance...
The universe shouldn't exist — at least according to a new theory. Modeling of conditions soon after the Big Bang suggests the universe should have collapsed just microseconds after its explosive birth, the new study suggests. "During the early universe, we expected cosmic inflation — this is a rapid expansion of the universe right after…
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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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Universe, Life, Divine.
Ancient alien life might have been incubating on strange exoplanets just 15 million years after the birth of the universe. Although nothing more complex than microbes could have existed back then, the possibility may poke holes in the notion that the universe is fine-tuned for human existence. (1) But why is that notion so important?…
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