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2016-01-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Physicist Has A Groundbreaking Idea About Why Life Exists

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Posted by gorb 2016-01-07 15:01|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 I've never hear a physicist expressing opinion on Evolution/Biology what wasn't ever trivial or bullshit.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-07 15:53|| 2016-01-07 15:53|| Front Page Top

#2 So, all of this messy creation
Is thermodynamic causation:
Our soles' animation
And brains' cogitation
Exist to promote radiation.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-01-07 16:29|| 2016-01-07 16:29|| Front Page Top

#3 "I added the emphasis. Seems like one way or another, this will lead to something interesting."

That is not wahat is said.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2016-01-07 16:53|| 2016-01-07 16:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup...

He obviously hasn't seen the Star Trek episode when Q took Picard back to Earth 5 billion years ago...

Posted by Raj 2016-01-07 16:57|| 2016-01-07 16:57|| Front Page Top

#5 He don't deals with the fact that there isn't live outside Earth and why not.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2016-01-07 16:59|| 2016-01-07 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Can't let them drift outside their lane, eh Grom?

when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy..., it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy.

Through my jaded lens, this suggests GLOBAL WARMING is the result of too many bipedal dissipaters.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-01-07 17:23|| 2016-01-07 17:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah.......but what about entropy? It is getting greater by the hour!!!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-01-07 20:24|| 2016-01-07 20:24|| Front Page Top

#8 He don't deals with the fact that there isn't live outside Earth and why not.

He's a physicist, Lionel Thoth9784, not an exobiologist. Also, absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, as far as I am aware we do not know absolutely that there is no life elsewhere. It's only in the last few years that we proved the existence of planets, both Jupiters and Earth-sized, around other suns. Proof or disproof of life may need to wait until we can fly out there to see in person.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-01-07 20:52|| 2016-01-07 20:52|| Front Page Top

#9 gorb, if you would be kind enough, in future, to limit your posts to the key 700 words or so from such long pieces, that would be helpful. We can't p.49 articles once they've been published.

But already, there are ideas about how to test that interpretation in the lab.

That's the key. Whether this hypothesis fails or succeeds, we will know more than we did before.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-01-07 21:03|| 2016-01-07 21:03|| Front Page Top

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