Theme: Science

—“If the universe offered no resistance than it would offer no reward for the most capable and no punishment for the less capable and rather than evolution we would have biological chaos.

Our species has been (and will continue to be) sculpted by this resistance as we now consciously seek adaptation to it. The universe has no evident purpose or interests, it is not “against us”, it simply is.

It is our own weakness which is against us and this weakness is a lack of adaptation to natural law.

To “conquer the universe” is really only to conquer our own deficiencies.— Joel Davis

“You can never prove how life originated but what we can now wonder is, ‘Is there a plausible way that life arose from nonliving inorganic chemistry?’ And it’s starting to look like you can connect the dots between the periodic table, the atoms available to us in the universe, and life as an emergent property of matter,” —Harry Noller, 77, Molecular biology professor, University of California at Santa Cruz,

—“The laws of thermodynamics in general and entropy in particular, make the universe hostile to us. Everything tends to come apart over the long term – even our cells and their component parts, on up to planets and stars.

Whatever “coming back together” that might occur on the larger time scale of the universe is beyond any meaning to us in practical terms – other than enjoying the knowledge of it, and perhaps gleaning from it any useful bits in regards physics that we can put to work in our machinations of survival and continuation, development, and improvement of the species.

Within the short time scales that we deal with as biological agents it’s this constant “coming-apart” that forces us to defeat the red queen. To survive we must find ways to build bastions and bulwarks against this one tendency of the universe.

I would submit that it’s most accurate to say that the universe is indifferent to the fact that the way it operates is hostile to us.” — Shanaynay Tomson

(CD: edited to: remove suggestion that the universe has intent; fully expand sentences; rephrase parentheticals. tip. I try to use parentheticals to create parallel sequences between vernacular terminology and technical terminology, or to insert my ‘voice or opinion’ into the middle of an objective text. I recommend that you write however you are comfortable to get an idea out of your head and into text, but then go through it, organize it and fully expand it. -cheers)