Monday, July 31, 2017

Rocks Rolling Downhill

Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics...

Wired: Life was physics not fluke

A New Physics Theory of Life (2014)

First Support for a Physics Theory of Life (2017)

Spontaneous fine-tuning to environment in many-species chemical reaction networks (2017)

Self-Organized Resonance during Search of a Diverse Chemical Space (2017)

How does life come from randomness?

Jeremy England: What is Life Lecture

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Are we are all from a galaxy far, far away?

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Milky Way’s origins are not what they seem

Check out the galaxy formation simulations at

The FIRE project which develops cosmological simulations of galaxy formation that directly resolve the interstellar medium of individual galaxies while capturing their cosmological environment.

Further articles on this discovery...

Phys.org: Milky Way's origins are not what they seem

Wired: Nearly half the Milky Way and everything in it may have formed from distant galaxies

Wired: The Milky Way's fastest stars could have escaped from nearby galaxies

Wired: Listen to ancient stars 'singing' in the Milky Way

PBS Education: 32 Space-Themed Resources to Explore the Galaxy

Wikipedia: The Milky Way Galaxy

NASA: Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out

Phys.org: The Outer Galaxy

Tintoretto, the Origin of the Milky Way

Friday, July 21, 2017

Topology and Physics

The scientific applications of the mathematical field of topology
continue to astound!

Article from Nature Magazine...
The Strange Topology That is Reshaping Physics

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to theoretical physicists whose work established the role of topology in understanding exotic forms of matter...

Topological Phases of Matter