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 and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. — 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
