Eric Chaisson

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

— Eric Chaisson

“... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical.”

— Eric Chaisson

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite,…

— Eric Chaisson

Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds…

— Eric Chaisson

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor…

— Eric Chaisson

“Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first…

— Eric Chaisson

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

— Eric Chaisson

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

— Eric Chaisson

“The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to…

— Eric Chaisson

“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”

— Eric Chaisson

“... nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it,…

— Eric Chaisson

Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

— Eric Chaisson

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from…

— Eric Chaisson

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns…

— Eric Chaisson