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MISPLACED CONCRETENESS. “Reality consists of a hierarchy of intertwined processes. There are very few explicitly processual theories in biology today. As a practising biologist, I’ve always found this utterly baffling and disappointing. We remain strangely fixated on explanation in terms of static unchanging entities.” (Foreword, by Johannes Jaeger). https://lnkd.in/evBZWZaE View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this Fragment. Dr Fraser, in private correspondence with me revealed the following. “I suspect that few palaeontologists would browse a nutrition journal and those that I have spoken to are mystified by the idea of biological mechanisms for species extinction.” In other words, this very credible and testable hypothesis has been overlooked. https://lnkd.in/e5hTuW74 View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT PHENOMENA. “The conjunction of entropy and gravitation is shown to give rise to a phenomenological model of dark matter, revealing the natural emergence, in galactic and cluster dynamics, of a critical acceleration parameter related to the cosmological constant; the resulting mass profiles are consistent with observations.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

FINDING. “Generalizing the discussion for a static spacetime region to the cosmos, we find a component of dark energy (resembling an effective positive cosmological constant of the correct magnitude) in the current epoch of the universe.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

CONNECTED MATHS. “We use three different methods to estimate the foaminess of spacetime, which, in turn, provides a back-door way to derive the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for black hole entropy and the holographic principle.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

REMARKABLE COLLECTION. “We show that the concept of entropy and the dynamics of gravitation provide the linchpin in a unified scheme to understand the physics of black hole computers, spacetime foam, dark energy, dark matter and the phenomenon of turbulence.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

THE AUTHOR. “NG, Y. JACK, KENAN PROFESSOR. Harvard University, Ph.D. Physics, 1974 (thesis advisor: J. Schwinger). Harvard University, M.A. Physics, 1969 (graduate advisor: S. Glashow). University of California at Berkeley, B.A. Physics, 1968. Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1974-1976. Research Associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, 1976-1978.” https://lnkd.in/e98wCbH5 View in LinkedIn

THE PAPER. “Entropy and Gravitation—From Black Hole Computers to Dark Energy and Dark Matter, by Y. Jack Ng, Institute of Field Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.” https://lnkd.in/emmgb6JD View in LinkedIn

We are still peering haplessly into the heavens. https://lnkd.in/eDyMRAvC View in LinkedIn

“the light of sense " "Goes out, but with a flash that has revealed " "The invisible world.” " "WORDSWORTH, THE PRELUDE (1850) 5: 600-602. Free online version. https://lnkd.in/e6GepCV6) View in LinkedIn