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 whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally.… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical.” — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe. — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic. — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...” — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“... nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
