tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post3669766724572353178..comments2024-03-26T19:46:33.565-07:00Comments on Random Walks: Maybe it's about the sulfurJohn Kurmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-12810410470458190392012-07-04T11:06:54.831-07:002012-07-04T11:06:54.831-07:00Shoot ... you may be onto something!Shoot ... you may be onto something!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09029436098418393783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-45489199860867861582012-06-27T06:34:04.749-07:002012-06-27T06:34:04.749-07:00Top flight indeed.
A gradient is defined as a di...Top flight indeed. <br /><br />A gradient is defined as a difference across a distance.<br /><br />Evolution is a science of connections, and connection does not stop with ties of humans to apes, apes to other animals, or animals to microbes. Life and nonlife are also connected in very fundamental ways. The organization of life is material and energetic.<br /><br />Life exists in the very real thermodynamic difference between 5800 Kelvin of incoming solar radiation and 2.7 Kelvin of outer space. It is this gradient upon which life's complexity feeds. This thermodynamic idea connects life to nonlife.<br /><br />Life is one of a class of systems that organize in response to a gradient.CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-76131046170665329742012-06-26T13:15:08.251-07:002012-06-26T13:15:08.251-07:00Hey, thanks, but I got to wonder, in Star Trek, th...Hey, thanks, but I got to wonder, in Star Trek, the Horta was a silicon-based creature living in the high pressure-and-temperature depths of the planet. Assuming an silicon analgoue to carbon, and continuing the replacements on the periodic table (Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Nitrogen Phosphorus Sulfur ==> Silicon Lithium Phosphorus Sulfur Arsenic Selenium),... would the Horta have dilithium selenide based farts? Is that where they get the dilithium crystals from? Horta poop?John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-28300710704494422542012-06-26T10:31:20.485-07:002012-06-26T10:31:20.485-07:00LOL, really nice post.LOL, really nice post.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09029436098418393783noreply@blogger.com