Chrisy
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 | Subject: BBC docu - What We Still Don't Know (2004)  Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:18 pm | |
| What We Still Don't KnowFrom Srik Narayanan   - Quote :
- The series looked at the big questions preoccupying the mind of the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees. Understanding the creation of the cosmos is the job description for a cosmologist like Martin. But cosmologists are pretty complicated objects themselves. Perhaps the very existence of thinking, intelligent cosmologists marks this universe as rather unusual.
Martin is conscious of this. Nothing yet observed through telescopes rivals the complexity of Earth's biosphere. Science has been supremely successful in explaining the everyday objects of the cosmos: stars, galaxies, black holes. But the origin of life, the emergence of intelligence both remain unknown and unique to Earth. How did we get from the Big Bang to man? It may require an unlikely sequence of events but fortuitous laws of physics also?
The series was hosted by the Martin Rees and featured interviews with leading scientific thinkers from around the world. Experts in biology, biomathematics, paleobiology, geology discussed the possibilities of ET in "Are we alone?"; cosmologists and particle physicists discussed the emergence of atoms in a universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy in "Why are we here?"; mathematicians, neuroscientists, cosmologists, and a philosopher discussed the problems posed by our existence in "Are We Real?" Another great BBC documentary which I found on the documentary link I posted yesterday ( Here) A lot of things I already knew about but interesting nevertheless, will make you think   | |
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