Occupation: Science Writer Birth: 1946
Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped..
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all….
Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough..
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic..
Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but ….
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout….
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty….
Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe..
Given enough time, even evolution evolves..