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The first Irises of the year, glorious reminders that “life will find a way”. View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM COMPLEXITY. “The quantum-mechanical computation of one molecule of methane requires 10(42) grid points. Assuming that at each point we have to perform only 10 elementary operations, and that the computation is performed at the extremely low temperature T = 3 × 10(-3) K, we would still have to use all the energy produced on Earth during the last century.” R. P. Poplavskii (1975)[Pop75], as quoted by Manin https://lnkd.in/dif7Y_D View in LinkedIn

HD 149026b. “This boiling world is one of the hottest and densest ever found. None too pleasant to visit, the surface of the planet is about 3700 degrees Fahrenheit (more than 2,000 degrees Celsius) — about three times hotter than the surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. HD 149026b is so hot that scientists think it absorbs almost all of the heat from its star, and reflects almost no light. The scorching ball is smaller than Saturn, but has a core that weighs 70 to 90 times the mass of the entire Earth.” https://lnkd.in/dDZa-gH View in LinkedIn

EXTREME PLANETS tend to present with any of the following characteristics: extreme heat, coldness, magnetic properties, density, gravity winds, toxic atmospheres and charged particle fluxes. And the presence of exotic matter called plasma. In most cases, these are many fold greater than found on Earth. We have only just scratched the surface of these planets in our near-observable universe. There will, undoubtedly, be more. View in LinkedIn