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COMPETING BODY PARTS. “Typically, the animal body is made up of anatomical units that can often evolve independently.” https://lnkd.in/gmREWTV View in LinkedIn

FALLING INTO THE BLACK HOLE. “Its energy (we count any mass as energy in accordance with Einstein's E = mc2) is permanently reflected in an increment in the black hole's mass.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

BOLTZMANN. “Thermodynamic entropy, in contrast, depends on the states of all the billions of atoms (and their roaming electrons) that make up each transistor.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

FORENSIC EVIDENCE. “It is impossible to determine what is inside a black hole. No detailed information can emerge across the horizon and escape into the outside world. In disappearing forever into a black hole, however, a piece of matter does leave some traces.” (Soft hair). https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

SHANNON BINARY INFO. “The Shannon entropy of the chip cares only about the overall state of each tiny transistor etched in the silicon crystal--the transistor is on or off; it is a 0 or a 1--a single binary degree of freedom.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

EVENT HORIZON. “The laws of relativity forbid anything that went into a black hole from coming out again, at least within the classical (nonquantum) description of the physics. The point of no return, called the event horizon of the black hole, is of crucial importance. In the simplest case, the horizon is a sphere, whose surface area is larger for more massive black holes.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

TEARING THE FABRIC. “According to Einstein's equations, a sufficiently dense concentration of matter or energy will curve spacetime so extremely that it rends, forming a black hole.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT PARADIGMS. “Embryologist Berrill, for instance writes repeatedly of "the amazing diversity of developmental performances" and "the complex reality" of embryonic development. Molecular biologists such as Monod claim that the elephant is constructed on the same principles and using the same materials as E. coli. The aesthetic of molecular biology is abstract formalism.” https://lnkd.in/dQuxg6Y View in LinkedIn

THE CRUX OF THE SPLIT. “Embryology has a tradition of celebrating the complexity and diversity of life. Molecular biology has a tradition of celebrating life's underlying unity and simplicity.” https://lnkd.in/dQuxg6Y View in LinkedIn

CLASH OF PARADIGMS. “Pnina Abir-Am (1991) has shown the difficulties that Joseph Needham experienced in his attempt to try to reconcile the holistic embryology of the 1930s with reductionist chemistry. The chemists saw the constantly changing embryo as poor material from which they could isolate and characterize their enzymes.” https://lnkd.in/dQuxg6Y View in LinkedIn