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"I don't really have any criticisms, as long as the program is in continuous evolution," he says.
For the past decade or so, the best scientific guess about the evolution of the universe has been the cold-dark-matter (CDM) theory, which holds that an exotic, unseen form of matter helped create the galaxies. But a new study of the universe's structure, reported in last week...
In the beginning I created the heavens and the earth -- well, almost. I actually started with a lump of molten rock, gave it a hundred million years or so to cool off and then began to form the clear blue oceans and the landmasses that would eventually become continents. After...
In SimEarth, as in the real world, the great natural processes that shape the environment -- volcanoes, erosion, continental drift -- interact with one another. Climate, vegetation and geology are represented as interrelated systems, each with controls that can be adjusted. Animals multiplying too fast? Just crank down the reproduction dial. Tired...
The most controversial aspect of the SimEarth model may be its reliance on the so-called Gaia hypothesis, a theory of evolution that views the earth as a single organism with various feedback mechanisms to maintain conditions suitable for life. In SimEarth this means that as the heat from the...