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Do mass extinctions affect the development of intelligence? If so, we may expect to be in a universe that is exceptionally placid. We consider the effects of impacts, supervolcanoes, global glaciations, and nearby gamma ray bursts, and how…

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After describing all the contradictions associated with the current Plate Tectonics theory, this paper proposes a model where a single cause can explain all geophysical and geological phenomena. The source of the Earth's activity lies in…

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I demonstrate two fundamental contributions. First, the Earth tectonics is generally a consequence of the springtide-induced magnification of mechanical resonance in the Earth mantle. The same mechanism that causes bridges to collapse under…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mensur Omerbashich

Growth of the world population and the world economic growth were hyperbolic in the past 2,000,000 years. Recently, from around 1950, they started to be diverted to slower trajectories but they are still close to the historical hyperbolic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-24 Ron W. Nielsen

This paper summarizes efforts to computationally model two transitions in the evolution of human creativity: its origins about two million years ago, and the 'big bang' of creativity about 50,000 years ago. Using a computational model of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Liane Gabora , Steve DiPaola

Gravitational waves are propagating undulations in the spacetime fabric, which interact very weakly with their environment. In cosmology, gravitational-wave distortions are produced by most of the inflationary scenarios and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Despoina Pazouli , Christos G. Tsagas

We investigate the evolution of gravitational waves through discontinuous evolution (transition) of the Hubble expansion rate $H(z)$ at a sudden cosmological singularity, which may be due to a transition of the value of the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Evangelos Achilleas Paraskevas , Leandros Perivolaropoulos

Darwin's theory of evolution is considered to be one of the greatest scientific gems in modern science. It not only gives us a description of how living things evolve, but also shows how a population evolves through time and also, why only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Arka Bhattacharya

We assume that the natural intelligence (human, particularly) is equivalent to a large inferring structure, which took shape in the last 400/500 million years. Then two hypotheses, about this structure and its development, are put forward…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Claudio Parmeggiani

We show that the stochastic background of gravitational wave memory of growing type leads to a fractional Brownian motion increasing at the order of $t^{H}$ for large $t$ where $\frac{1}{2} < H <1$. This beats the scaling law of Brownian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Lydia Bieri

Based on Lorentz and Levi-Civita's conservation laws, it can be shown that the energy of the matter field in the universe might originate from the gravitational field as a result of the latter field's energy decrease and the total entropy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fang-Pei Chen

The natural evolution of life seems to proceed through steps characterized by phases of relatively rapid changes, followed by longer, more stable periods. In the light of the string-theory derived physical scenario proposed in [1], we…

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-06 Andrea Gregori

In his monumental discoveries, the driving force for Einstein was, I believe, consistency of concept and principle rather than conflict with experiment. In this spirit, I would like to look at the journey from the classical to the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naresh Dadhich

Gravitational waves are predicted by the general theory of relativity. In [6] D. Christodoulou showed that gravitational waves have a nonlinear memory. We proved in [3] that the electromagnetic field contributes at highest order to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-10 Lydia Bieri , PoNing Chen , Shing-Tung Yau

The content of Einstein's theory of gravitation is encoded in the properties of the solutions to his field equations. There has been obtained a wealth of information about these solutions in the ninety years the theory has been around. It…

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We develop a gravitational analogue of spin magnetic resonance, called spin gravitational resonance, whereby a gravitational wave interacts with a magnetic field to produce a spin transition. In particular, an external magnetic field…

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At the core of our uniquely human cognitive abilities is the capacity to see things from different perspectives, or to place them in a new context. We propose that this was made possible by two cognitive transitions. First, the large brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-11 Liane Gabora , Kirsty Kitto

An Earth-like planetary magnetic field has been widely invoked as a requirement for habitability as it purportedly mitigates the fluxes of ionizing radiation reaching the surface and the escape of neutrals and ions from the atmosphere.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Manasvi Lingam

A variant of microcephalin, MCPH1 gene, was introgressed about 37,000 years ago into Homo sapiens genetic pool from an archaic (Homo erectus) lineage and rose to exceptionally high frequency of around 70 percent worldwide today. It is…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-09-24 Konrad R. Fialkowski

The production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is a fundamental prediction of any cosmological inflationary model. The features of such a signal encode unique information about the physics of the Early Universe and beyond,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-05 Maria Chiara Guzzetti , Nicola Bartolo , Michele Liguori , Sabino Matarrese