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‘Is Life in Equilibrium?’ is Part Six of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Is Life in Equilibrium?, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Andy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross introduced us to the idea that life’s organized complexity represents a thermodynamic puzzle. But related to…
‘Life is Diverse’ is Part Five of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life is Diverse, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Andy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. While non-living diversity in the Universe is arbitrary, living diversity appears to be deliberate and coherent. But the macroscopic…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C11_240812: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Eleven: “Engineering Opinion”.] Engineering Opinion Meetings can be tedious, boring even. And having too many of them can be inefficient and counter productive. And so can having too many people involved when only those directly involved in the subject of the meeting should be attending. So, with…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C8-1_240704: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Eight: “Energy Matters”.] Post by: Barrie Cameron, author of ‘Planetoid Trilogy’. This present post carries on from a previous post that also concerned Chapter Eight: [ST Ref: PT-B1-C8_230818: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Eight: “Energy Matters”.] This present post extends the issue of energy to the rest…
What’s with kW and kWh? We see from time to time confusion in the media, traditional and internet, concerning the application of the measurement units: ‘kW’ and ‘kWh’. [This Post updated on 6/08/2023]. So what IS with kW and kWh? Power If you are familiar with the SI units of measurement you will know that…
Post by author Barrie Cameron: What is full sustainability? What is full sustainability? This post focuses on this question, and what is being undertaken to achieve it for our Biosphere. This post, “What is full sustainability?”, was inspired by reading a recently published science fiction book that has as its main theme the importance of…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C3_220610: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Three: “Paris Interview”.] SP: Barrie, in your latest book, ‘Star Island‘, you have your characters using several modes of transport. In particular. some readers are wondering why you have them still using conventional fast rail between European cities. What about Hyperloop vs fast trains? Given that the…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C1_220512: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter One: “Oblivion”.] A key element in Chapter One, “Oblivion”, of my first ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘ book, ‘Star Island‘, is the ‘calibration test of the MiniAXE apparatus’. Effectively it is a science experiment. Today we take for granted that scientists and engineers use experiments to rigorously test their scientific…