As someone with a long
interest in complexity, chaos, uncertainty and with doubts about the absolutist
way of most of modern science to look for and concentrate on single causes with single effects
the article linked below was of interest.
The great questions of the
universe, how it came to be, how our galaxy was formed and how earth and the
solar system resulted are one set of things.
In the very narrow and
limited perspective of Earth there is the question or questions of how life as
we know it originated and took the forms it did.
It was refreshing to come
across in Science Daily, this article in which scientists try to explore the
nature of the complexity involved. They
suggest a particular phase of time in the life of our followed.
Read it here, the
journal's abstract is quite short and readable and worth a few minutes of anybody's
time:
It opens a new line of
thought and research.
We may only just be
beginning to understand.
Thanks CT. Food for thought right enough.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting and possibly a lesson for climate scientists who want to find a single control knob for the climate.
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