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Paul Davies
Paul Davies
British Writer
Born: Apr 22, 1946
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Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. Paul Davies
Space Job Too Astronauts Small Stuck Attempts Budget New NASA Been American Going Orbit Realisation Exploration Boldly Nowhere Phase
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur. Paul Davies
Space Black Stars Changed Dramatic Black Holes Objects Occur Discovery Effects Intense Holes Fields Things Gravitational
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. Paul Davies
Nature Other Cornerstone Relativity String String Theory Cosmology General Structures General Relativity Attempts Terms Also Conceptual Forces Geometrical Provided Unify Theory Basis
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance. Paul Davies
Physics Job Inquire Laws Student Limits Scientist Were Discover Off Regarded Them Apply
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory. Paul Davies
Memory Will Big Glorious Few Nothing Universe Disappear Crunch Big Bang Came Years Existence Bang Even
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. Paul Davies
Life Science Biology Medicine Evidence Independently Would Mars Some Could Arisen Advantages Studying Beyond Terrestrial Permanent Geology Exotic Being Them Planetary Base Number Biotechnology
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. Paul Davies
Exaggeration Science Physics Birth Relativity Say Laws Arguably Know Isaac Quantum Quantum Mechanics Motion Began Revolutions Formulation Newton Theory Mechanics Reborn Twin Gravitation Early
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. Paul Davies
Life Great Science Mysteries Outstanding Origin
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets. Paul Davies
Life Universe Teeming Other Type Earth Would Would-Be More Never Fairly Discover Than Certain Planets Twice Inconceivable Here Started
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws. Paul Davies
God Faith World Will Must Something Laws Outside Never Simply Accepted Mathematical Unexplained Explain Fully Appealing Set
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference. Paul Davies
Faith Religion Knowledge Science World Doubting Thomas Reliable About Hypotheses Term Most Well Because Repeatedly Contrast Difference Form Based Illustrate
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. Paul Davies
Language Chemistry Biology About Simply Mesh Concepts React Does Narratives How Substances Whereas Information Informational Organisation Appeals
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program. Paul Davies
Life Alone Logical Will Chemistry Way Way Life Complex Silicon Structure More Computer Mere Study Execute Involves How Than Any Information Explain Plastic Origin Therefore Differs Copper Fundamentally Program
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs. Paul Davies
Survival Cancer Conspiracy Dissemination Changes Air Way Signals Cascade Seemingly Facilitate Both Through Come Remote Execute Chemical Bloodstream Cells Create Use Organs Even Enhanced Niches Designed
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life? Paul Davies
Life Cancer Few Back Elusive Frantic Does Exist Question Very Cure Story Grand Place Ask Stand Researchers Search Why Basic
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection. Paul Davies
Cancer Healthy Research Inside Variety Spite Almost Almost All Highly Chemicals Infection Efficient Decades Cells Explanation Agents Radiation Theory Agreed Why Lurks
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. Paul Davies
Life Nothing Solid Plenty Scenarios Support Scientists Stories Experimental Theory Conjecture Origin Agreed
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. Paul Davies
Future Creative People Moon Thinking Imagination Earth Worthy Mars Some Attainable Badly Excited Fails Prospect Clearly Mission Beyond Returning Does Get May Public To The Moon Capture Humans Needed
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. Paul Davies
Nature Me You Science Physics Alien Enough Unlocking Secrets Insignificance Cosmology Leads Like Wonderland Which Compared Beliefs Fundamental Pale Things
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered. Paul Davies
Problem Regret Will Made Consequences Later Once Possible Would Advance Know Because Scientific Undiscovered Discovery Cannot Awful Humans
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life. Paul Davies
Life Natural Competition Argument Own Once Earth Would Would-Be Direct Given Through Selection Host Know Another Became Were Any Often Confined Established Form Little Natural Selection Regular Niche Why Eliminated
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe. Paul Davies
Life Alone Life Is A Somewhere Universe Our Find Cosmic Could Well Truly Wondering Confident May Form Doorstep Galaxy Sentient Should Beings Right Second Here Phenomenon
Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light. Paul Davies
Age Memory Light Power Speed Too Cosmic Finite Computer Computers Performance Limited Man-Made Processing

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