Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed - GoFuckYourself.com

SuckOnThis · 04-22-2013, 07:50 AM

(Phys.org) ?Geneticists Richard Gordon of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida and Alexei Sharov of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore have proposed, in a paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, that if the evolution of life follows Moore's Law, then it predates the existence of planet Earth.

Moore's Law, of course, famously suggests that the complexity of computers grows at a rate of double the transistors per circuit every two years, resulting in exponential growth. Looking at the complexity of computers today and working Moore's Law backwards shows that the first microchips came about during the 1960s, which is when they were actually invented. In their paper, Gordon and Sharov take the same approach, only they apply it to biological complexity.

The two researchers acknowledge their ideas are more of a "thought exercise" than a theory proposal, but at the same time suggest their calculations ought to be taken seriously. They start with the idea of genetic complexity doubling every 376 million years?working backwards, they say, means that life first came about almost 10 billion years ago, which of course predates the creation of Earth itself. Most scientists agree the Earth formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Assuming that Moore's Law does apply to biological complexity, this would suggest that life began somewhere other than on Earth and migrated here.

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html

Dirty Dane · 04-22-2013, 08:11 AM

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DWB · 04-22-2013, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis

(Phys.org) ?Geneticists Richard Gordon of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida and Alexei Sharov of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore have proposed, in a paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, that if the evolution of life follows Moore's Law, then it predates the existence of planet Earth.

Moore's Law, of course, famously suggests that the complexity of computers grows at a rate of double the transistors per circuit every two years, resulting in exponential growth. Looking at the complexity of computers today and working Moore's Law backwards shows that the first microchips came about during the 1960s, which is when they were actually invented. In their paper, Gordon and Sharov take the same approach, only they apply it to biological complexity.

The two researchers acknowledge their ideas are more of a "thought exercise" than a theory proposal, but at the same time suggest their calculations ought to be taken seriously. They start with the idea of genetic complexity doubling every 376 million years?working backwards, they say, means that life first came about almost 10 billion years ago, which of course predates the creation of Earth itself. Most scientists agree the Earth formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Assuming that Moore's Law does apply to biological complexity, this would suggest that life began somewhere other than on Earth and migrated here.

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html

I love stuff like this. It really shows how little we know about anything and can always be incorrect. There was a report released not too long ago where they just found out the universe isn't as big as they thought it was, so now scientists have to re-think and re-calculate everything.

dyna mo · 04-22-2013, 08:51 AM

yes, their researches raises many questions-

1. did they not know moore's law is not a law?
2. did they just simple forget that so as not to mess up their timeline?
3. which moore's law did they go with?

i'm just being a smartass.

as far as i know, amino acids did get here via asteroids/meteors, and they are the building blocks of life so i wouldn't be surprised if an amino acid can be proven to be older than earth life.

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SuckOnThis So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: In my head Posts: 6,844	Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed (Phys.org) ?Geneticists Richard Gordon of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida and Alexei Sharov of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore have proposed, in a paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, that if the evolution of life follows Moore's Law, then it predates the existence of planet Earth. Moore's Law, of course, famously suggests that the complexity of computers grows at a rate of double the transistors per circuit every two years, resulting in exponential growth. Looking at the complexity of computers today and working Moore's Law backwards shows that the first microchips came about during the 1960s, which is when they were actually invented. In their paper, Gordon and Sharov take the same approach, only they apply it to biological complexity. The two researchers acknowledge their ideas are more of a "thought exercise" than a theory proposal, but at the same time suggest their calculations ought to be taken seriously. They start with the idea of genetic complexity doubling every 376 million years?working backwards, they say, means that life first came about almost 10 billion years ago, which of course predates the creation of Earth itself. Most scientists agree the Earth formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Assuming that Moore's Law does apply to biological complexity, this would suggest that life began somewhere other than on Earth and migrated here. http://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html

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dyna mo The People's Post Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: invisible 7-11 Posts: 63,914	yes, their researches raises many questions- 1. did they not know moore's law is not a law? 2. did they just simple forget that so as not to mess up their timeline? 3. which moore's law did they go with? i'm just being a smartass. as far as i know, amino acids did get here via asteroids/meteors, and they are the building blocks of life so i wouldn't be surprised if an amino acid can be proven to be older than earth life.