Popularized treatments of quantum mechanics describe it as applicable to the behavior of submicroscopic particles, while relativity applies to the very large (i.e., astronomical). This seems totally arbitrary to me. Where is the boundary between the 2 domains? Atoms? Neutrons? Quarks? Or is it...
I guess I am not as optimistic as Yggdrasil that Venter or anyone else will have such good luck with arbitrary genomic implants into arbitrary hosts, unless the genome's source and the host are quite closely biologically or phylogenetically related to begin with. Certainly one would not expect a...
I am a molecular biologist but cosmology is my "hobby". I have some questions about some seeming inconsistencies I have heard on TV treatments of cosmological topics. Here is the first: I hear the the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy will collide in 2.5 - 3 billion years. If the universe is...