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Yep, that's what I got out of it, too. So using this assumption (that the laws of physics are mutable), what is usually referred as Big Bang would be the most recent time these laws have changed. (By the way, wouldn't the Planck Epoch be a candidate for supporting evidence? Sounds like a...

The gist of it is that Smolin proposes that instead of looking at time as a consequence of the laws of our Universe, a better approach would be to see time as a „given” and see the laws that currently govern the Universe (the four forces, the elementary particles,...) as part of an evolutive...

A short presentation by physicist Lee Smolin on time and how his personal view of it differs from the current mainstream view. Thought it may interest some of you here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hi4VbERDyI

Maybe consider using a CatBib?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKyt3C0oT4

Precisely the question investigated by this movie: Life After People. Check it out! (The quick answer: only some fossils.) Actually, that's so if you're basing your assumptions only on the past. Well, try a look at the future! :-) According to Aubrey de Grey (and others) extending human's...

Can't find the topic(s) now, but I do remember reading around here somewhere about terminally illness and end-of-life issues and just wanted to post a reference to an article published in The New Yorker a couple years ago: Letting Go, by Atul Gawande. It's very well written, in my opinion, so...

A short quote from a longer article that kind of relates to this topic:

I first read about Mars One sometimes last year and it all sounded so unreal, like something closer to a fairy tale than to an honest, realistic attempt at space exploration. And yet, these Dutch guys seem to be dead serious about their plans, according to which the selection process for the...

Not sure. Studying various languages was never on my list of passions, so I guess this kind of subtleties are going above my ahead... If you want I can record myself pronouncing a few Romanian words containing the letter "h" and let you be the judge of how it sounds like.

An update: Mars rover finds complex chemicals but no organic compounds ... yet.

How's Husky for a boy's name? :) ps/ Horațiu (from Latin's Horatius, which became Horace in English) is the only boy name starting with an H that I met in my childhood. In non-formal conversation it was usually shorten to Hora.

"... MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, has observed something new and interesting on the first planet from the Sun..." (Source) The official NASA announcement will be made today (Nov. 29) at 2:00pm EST. The event could be watched live at the link referenced as the source...

I think you're mistaken on this one. The above quote applies to (Richard) Zare's story (the guy who studied Mars meteorites found in Antarctica years ago) -- at least that's how I understand it from the article mentioned on your first link.

A calculated risk. From what NASA knows so far there are very slim chances of water being found on the Gale Crater. Add to that the pressure generated by the cost associated with carrying the drilling stuff all the way to Mars and you'll probably want to stick to the initial plan. It would...

Have you seen this article? According to it, at this moment NASA scientists are actually "praying" for Curiosity NOT to find water on Mars. And that's because one of the drilling bits used by SAM may have been contaminated with earthly bacteria, which could then contaminate the martian water.

So you guys don't think elephants can understand art? Well, that did not go well with the elephants in South Korea, where at least one of them is in the process of acquiring human language so that he can participate in this debate, not doubt. Brace yourselves...

So... the wife in question spent 100k USD for plastic surgery & the lawsuit ended with an 120k USD award for „the victim.” And all this is happening in China where the GDP per capita is 8.5k USD. Well, if I were to guess what happened here is that the woman belongs to a filthy rich family (as...

That's an interesting question, too, orcot. Who knows, maybe Carolyn Porco (one of the lead scientist involved with this mission) will address it in her forthcoming book...? In the meantime National Geographic has just published a news piece on Cassini with some amazing photos. From the...

That would be equivalent to Jack (Smith-Johnson)(Johnson+Smith), which is not quite the same as the suggested rule implied (except, perhaps, for very particular values for Smith and Johnson). On the other hand, Jack Nicholson sounds like a nice alternative, too. ps/ And I really think...