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MISSING FOSSIL RECORD. “Intermediate mass black holes are not only the missing link between stellar mass and super-massive black holes, but are a key prediction of seed SMBH formation that should exist as relics to this day.” (SMBH = supermassive black holes). https://lnkd.in/dYX7TQV View in LinkedIn

METABOLIC FUNNEL. “Although this network requires the addition of catalytically accessible carbon, nitrogen and sulfur sources, acetate and formate were substitutable by several alternative carboxylic acids like pyruvate.” https://lnkd.in/dcwZe7b View in LinkedIn

SEARCH GOAL. “Another predicted but as yet unobserved phenomenon which would unveil IMBHs is a tidal disruption event (TDE). The tidal disruption of a star by a SMBH gives an easily identifiable signature, and allows one to estimate the mass of the SMBH.” (IMBHs = intermediate mass black holes; SMBH = supermassive black holes). https://lnkd.in/dYX7TQV View in LinkedIn

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THE TRUTH. “These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front. They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.”(Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). https://lnkd.in/dYuf8mi View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this powerful paper which surveyed all known metabolic pathways for clues to early metabolism without phosphate, and thus without genes. Theoretical modeling of this type is an immensely important tool in probing molecular evolution, and will undoubtedly provide hypotheses that are readily tested experimentally. Currently, it is much more difficult to broadly interrogate molecular evolution experimentally, and a narrow series of testable questions is more manageable. View in LinkedIn

WORMHOLE. “As time unfolds the quantum system evolves and passes through a series of mutually orthogonal states which can be identified with the states of the growing wormhole.” https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn

INTERNAL CLOCK. “A more interesting thing to do is to use the black hole itself as an “internal” clock. We assume that the (pure) quantum state of the black hole is characterized by an uncertainty in energy ∆E equal to the variance of the energy in the thermal state.” https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn

BLACK HOLE TIME. “There are two kinds of clocks we can appeal to in studying the growth of wormholes. The first are clocks external to the CFT; in other words clocks which are not themselves part of the CFT. They can have unlimited accuracy for arbitrary lengths of time. One interpretation of the volume is that it is equal to the age of the black hole (as recorded by the boundary clock), multiplied by the area of the horizon.” (CFT = a thermal state of a boundary). https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn

THE TAKEHOME. “Perhaps a more accurate statement is that classically the entropy of the black hole is infinite.” https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn