Man-made Computers Are Limited In Their Performance

The Birth Of Science As We Know It Arguably Began With Isaac Newton's Formulation Of The Laws Of Gravitation And Motion. It Is No Exaggeration To Say That Physics Was Reborn In The Early 20th-century With The Twin Revolutions Of Quantum Mechanics And The Theory Of Relativity.

The Goldilocks Enigma Is The Idea That Everything In The Universe Is Just Right For Life, Like The Porridge In The Fairy Tale.

Cosmologists Have Attempted To Account For The Day-to-day Laws You Find In Textbooks In Terms Of Fundamental 'superlaws,' But The Superlaws Themselves Must Still Be Accepted As Brute Facts. So Maybe The Ultimate Laws Of Nature Will Always Be Off-limits To Science.

When I Was A Student, The Laws Of Physics Were Regarded As Completely Off Limits. The Job Of The Scientist, We Were Told, Is To Discover The Laws And Apply Them, Not Inquire Into Their Provenance.

Searching For Alternative Life On Earth Might Seem Misconceived, Because There Is Excellent Evidence That Every Kind Of Life So Far Studied Evolved From A Common Ancestor That Lived Billions Of Years Ago. Yet Most Of The Life That Exists On Earth Has Never Been Properly Classified.