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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Science Quantum Jitters and Apoptosis

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:46 AM

From The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, a book by the popular string theorist Brian Greene:

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

What he means is that the uncertainties of the quantum realm were expanded, stretched out into the clumpy structures of galaxies.

One can think of animal (our) death in this way. Just like quantum jitters (or fluctuations) imprinted the expanding universe, apoptosis (programmed cell death) imprinted the big world of large life. We are, after all, programmed to die.

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Thanks, just grabbed it from KCLS ebooks for Kindle.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on September 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM

Each as much a part of the past as it is the future. The universe is structured for life.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on September 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM

Don't think of it as "dying", that's a consciousness term. Thing about it as "changing form and format".

You have atoms that were once rocks, trees, and space dust within you. You are merely a different form for them, your conscious "mind" is merely a lucky option.

Posted by treacle on September 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM