Interesting to think this one through:
Replicating molecules appeared first- I suspect.
Then some 'viruses' needed to adapt by surrounding themselves with a cozy protective 'cell membrane'=bacteria
Now as bacteria evolved some would have been mobile [animal precusors perhaps]and some would have...
I can't seem to find an answer to this:
If the present level of greenhouse gas concentration were not to change, would the temperature of the planet continue to increase? Or would it level off?
Or is a continually increasing concentration of greenhouse gases required to keep raising the planets...
Is the mechanism of greenhouse gases trapping energy emitted as Infra Red radiation by the cooling ground either
reflecting back a 50% of the radiated IR energy back to Earth
or/and
the greenhouse gas molecule becoming excited with the extra energy and essentially becoming hotter?
Is it just the...
Regarding electricity generation from a fusion reactor:
I can't seem to find any discussion about the percentage of fusion product neutrons that can be realistically caught in the thermal blanket to utilise the energy they carry from the fusion reaction.
The neutrons from fusion have to be...
Surely the real efficiency of Fusion power is the percentage of neutrons that can be caught to extract kinetic energy from. I am assuming it is the neutron that is carrying the nuclear energy that can be recovered from the fusion reaction.
Now I'm pretty sure neutrons cannot be focused, so the...
The Mathematics of quantum mechanics suggests the 10^500 possible universe. I don't think the reality of these universes is suggested any further than this- I am not aware of any further description of any other universe, other than creative speculation.
I just think it's interesting that maybe...
In QED the maths suggests that a photon takes all possible paths, and all but one of the paths cancel out leaving the path we observe.
Using this as an analogy:-
The maths of quantum mechanics suggests a vast number of possible universes concurrent with our universe.
Perhaps all these...