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Friday, March 19, 2004
Sixth mass extinction will be our own fault
London - Fears that the Earth is undergoing a mass species wipe-out similar to that which destroyed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago gained new ground on Thursday with the publication of two British studies.
They found that the rate of loss of insect and plant species across Britain was running at several times what would be considered normal, and had been doing so for a long time.
"The world is experiencing a new mass extinction," said Andrew Sugden of Science International magazine. "These studies are milestones in global change research."
The studies, funded largely by Britain's Natural Environment Research Council, are published in the latest issue of the journal Science.
'As far as we an tell this one is caused by one animal organism - man'
Planet Earth has already undergone five mass extinctions in the last 600 million years, and scientists have speculated for some time that it is in the throes of a sixth.
The two studies of the losses of British butterflies, birds and plant species by Jeremy Thomas of the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology in southwestern England and Carly Stevens of the Open University give new backing for the theory.
"The current rates of extinction over recent centuries are a couple of hundred times greater than normal," Thomas said. "Most ecologists accept that we are approaching the rates of extinction seen in the past five mass extinctions."
Thomas found that 71 percent of butterfly species and 54 percent of bird species in Britain had experienced dramatic losses or extinctions - while Stevens found numerous plant species had already gone or were under severe stress.
And while all previous mass extinctions had been due to extra-terrestrial events, the culprit for the current wipe-out was closer to home.
"As far as we an tell this one is caused by one animal organism - man," Thomas said.
Habitat loss and degradation as well as man-made pollution were to blame for the steep declines, both scientists said.
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Monday, March 15, 2004
Scientists have found our 10th planet
Scientists have found a new world orbiting the solar system – more than 3 billion kilometres further away from the Sun than Pluto and 40 years away from Earth in a space shuttle.
NASA is expected to announce today the discovery of the space object, which some experts believe could be a new planet.
It is provisionally known as Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the sea.
The discovery of Sedna – 10 billion kilometres from Earth – is a testament to the new generation of high-powered telescopes.
Measurements suggest Sedna's diameter is almost 2000km – the biggest find in the solar system since Pluto was discovered 74 years ago. It is believed to be made of ice and rock, and is slightly smaller than Pluto.
The find will reignite the debate over what constitutes a planet.
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Sunday, March 14, 2004
New Theory: Universe Created by Intelligent Being
On any given starry night thousands, perhaps millions, of people crane their necks skyward and allow their minds to swirl around two fundamental questions: Are we alone, and why are we here?
According to a lawyer and science enthusiast in Portland, Oregon, not only is the universe full of life, but some of it may be intelligent beyond our wildest imagination. He also says that collectively as intelligent beings we are entwined in our ultimate destiny: to give birth to another universe.
"Intelligent life is, in essence, the reproductive organ of the cosmos," said James Gardner, the lawyer who moonlights as a scientist. He has pulled together his theory—called the selfish biocosm—from the disparate fields of physics, biology, biochemistry, astronomy, and cosmology.
Gardner has published pieces of his theory in several peer-reviewed scientific journals and wraps it together in his recently published book, Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe.
Though Gardner admits the theory is speculative and out-there in the literal and figurative senses, it is grounded enough in serious research to at least tickle the fancy of some of the world's most respected scientists.
Life-Friendly Universe
The selfish biocosm theory begins with the premise that the universe is life friendly. It is not a hostile place full of black holes, uninhabitable planets, and the emptiness that somehow, randomly, allowed intelligent life to evolve on Earth, Gardner says.
Among Gardner's evidence for the life-friendly nature of the universe is that the big bang apparently had just the right amount of force to allow the universe to expand at a pace perfectly suited for the evolution of life. If the big bang had gone off with more force, the cosmos would, by now, be empty: If there had been less force the universe would have collapsed, Gardner said.
Another factor for the life-friendly nature of the universe is the ease with which carbon—the basis for life and the emergence of intelligence—forms. Also, the universe's three-dimensional structure allows life as we know it to exist.
"Collectively this stunning set of circumstances renders the universe eerily fit for life and intelligence," Gardner said last month during a presentation of his selfish-biocosm theory at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
Gardner believes that eventually life and intelligence will evolve to the point where it is capable of figuring out how to create, or give birth to, another universe, just as he believes an earlier universe gave birth to our universe.
As the progeny of an earlier universe, the cosmic equivalent of DNA is stitched into our universe, providing a recipe for development and a blueprint for the construction of offspring, according to Gardner.
When it comes to the issue of ultimate origins, Gardner said his theory becomes its most speculative. He postulates a closed time-like curve wherein the universe serves as its own mother. But he has other theories as well.
"I feel somewhat tempted by the approach [Charles] Darwin took when questioned about the origin of life," Gardner said. "The whole matter, Darwin remarked famously, is far too profound for the human intellect; a dog might as easily contemplate the mind of Newton."
Proof of Theory?
According to Gardner, key among the consequences of the life-friendly nature of the universe is that we humans ought to encounter life and intelligence as we explore the cosmos. Such an encounter would help prove the selfish biocosm theory, he said.
"In some sense it's a test, but it's not rigorous," Shostak said. "It's hard to prove that nobody is out there and it may be hard to find them even if they are there."
Other tests put forward by Gardner include detecting the evolution toward intelligence in nonprimate species, the evolution of artificial life into what is called a "conscious artifact," and the emergence of transhuman intelligence—the evolution of ever higher levels of intelligence on Earth, such as a community of humans and machines that is more intelligent than humans are alone.
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