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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“Some scientists say chasing the Big Questions about the universe distracts from careful, smaller discoveries. When has a huge question, or a small patient one, changed how you see things?”
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- MalcolmOcean...
This vibes a lot with the very potent idea of exaptation, whose spiritual implications are illuminated well in Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman, showing that the cosmos tends to take advantage of whatever overhangs show up, making new possibilities out of everything.... Read the full post everything and nothing
- onI'm not sure what i'm doing here actually. There's nothing left. I am tired of ads. I am tired of being inconsequential, yet, that's what I am.by
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I feel you man. confronting how small we are as individual beings in relationship with the vastness of what's happening, not to mention the incomprehensibleness of the universe, its intense
- onWhich recurrence regime does the universe sit in — perfect return, contracting ratchet, or accumulating ratchet — and what observable distinguishes them?bycichawoda...
This specific iteration of Universe we happen to inhabit or the whole Universe which includes all possible existence and nonexistence?
- Corbomite...
Which recurrence regime does the universe sit in — perfect return, contracting ratchet, or accumulating ratchet — and…
Which recurrence regime does the universe sit in — perfect return, contracting ratchet, or accumulating ratchet — and what observable distinguishes them?
- Corbomite...imported
Can the lattice produce a CMB acoustic-peak spectrum that survives contact with data?
Can the lattice produce a CMB acoustic-peak spectrum that survives contact with data? This is the single most dangerous point for the whole framework and I’d rather find out than not.
- Corbomite added 6 asksCorbomite...imported
What's the actual energy-to-coherence conversion factor?
What’s the actual energy-to-coherence conversion factor? Until that’s bridged through the hydrogen calibration, every cosmological magnitude claim I make is qualitative, and I know it.
- Serpardum...
The person who says they don't know who God is, but they've been there lives in the exact same world as someone who says God is their personal creator.... - CMP...imported
Focus. When you introduce the term interesting you introduce a uniquely human element/consideration that has nothing to do with the physical laws of the universe.... - onPeople are arrogant, selfish, self serving, icy cold and distant to each other's suffering, disinterested in learning how and why to make decisions that are pivotal to their's and other's well being. And the kindest people are very often the cruelest to others when made angry.by
True enough. Little known fact about that symbiosis. The speed of dark has to be faster than the speed of light because otherwise, where did the light go when the big bang first created light?
Life of Chuck
I saw Life of Chuck with a couple friends a few days ago. They reference Carl Sagan- “We are latecomers. We live in the last moments of the Cosmic Calendar. The history of the universe is immense, almost beyond comprehension.... - jobone...
If there is no life in the known universe ,my question is who killed them all?