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Posted: Thu Jan 26th, 2012 08:39 pm |
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Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenges Conventional Wisdom
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — Earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects -- for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA -- are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel paradigm aims to catalyze a veritable renaissance...
...The basic idea of Dr. Andrulis' framework is that all physical reality can be modeled by a single geometric entity with life-like characteristics: the gyre. The so-called "gyromodel" depicts objects -- particles, atoms, chemicals, molecules, and cells -- as quantized packets of energy and matter that cycle between excited and ground states around a singularity, the gyromodel's center. A singularity is itself modeled as a gyre, wholly compatible with the thermodynamic and fractal nature of life. An example of this nested, self-similar organization is the Russian Matryoshka doll...
...Simply put, atoms in the human body and solar systems in the universe move and behave in the exact same manner...
More at- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126115127.htm
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Posted: Sun Jan 29th, 2012 08:39 pm |
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Sorry if the link no longer works. The article was subsequently censored by ScienceDaily because it didn't fit with some of their readers' view of the universe:
"We decided to pull the story, after receiving a number of complaints from readers who found the paper in question to be rather bizarre. There's a discussion of this at the Pharyngula blog (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/the_comparison_to_jabberwocky.php). There may be merits to this theory -- I'm no expert. But when you read the actual paper, it sounds pretty weird. At any rate, this is not the kind of thing we should have published on ScienceDaily. Our aim is to highlight research that we think may be important, not just any wild theory. And while we try to be careful in selecting which stories to feature on ScienceDaily, this particular one slipped through and was unfortunately posted without proper editorial review on our part."
(Apparently ScienceDaily gives greater weight to readers' views than that of the editorial panel at Life who chose to publish the article in the first place.) If you want to see the original article and judge for yourself whether it should have been censored, you will find it here:
http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/1/1/
The full text version is free to download - see the link immediately above the abstract.
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