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Computer simulation performs 10-year virtual evolution in five days

Posted March 30, 2007 4:15 PM

From What's Next In Science & Technology:

Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts. This model of the ocean is the first to reflect the vast diversity of the invisible forests living in our oceans-tiny, single-celled green plants that dominate the ocean and produce half the oxygen we breathe on Earth. And it does so in a way that is consistent with the way real-world ecosystems evolve according to the principles of natural selection.

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03/31/2007 9:13 AM

When are writers going to STOP!! using the terms "Natural Selection" and "Evolution" as one and the same?

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03/31/2007 1:11 PM

Natural Selection, Evolution and Creation are three of the many forces that keep Mother Nature changing forever. There are many other forces as well that are still not understood by scientists.

Scientists investigate the phenomenons related with Mater in its two main states:

Mass (Solids, liquids, gases, plasma, etc)

and

Energy (radiant, potential, kinetic, etc)

and they also investigate Natural Laws and Constants using mathematics, text and graphics as the main languages.

But scientist may not reach non-material facts, for example the ultimate reasons why Natural Laws are stated as they are.

In my modest opinion there must exist a super intelligence and creator that most humans use to refer as GOD, and this intelligence has a plan for Universe, and Natural Selection, Evolution, Creation, opportunity, probability, chaos, etc., are just parts of this plan.

For the moment, unless religion and science remain fighting in cold war, it is impossible to synthesize a superior thinking to understand more about Universe.

Jaime Soto Figueroa

http://www.matharts.cl/

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Re: Computer simulation performs 10-year virtual evolution in five days

04/24/2007 8:06 AM

Very interesting article. Different but in the same vein, mathemeticians and theoretical physicists at Sheffield Hallam University have created the most realistic flowing water ever seen and a computer game has been created using it.

http://www.knowledge-rich.com/newsarticle.aspx?nw_id=1167

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