Birth, of universe

Would you use a physical model or a conceptual model to describe the following brain, mind, solar system, birth of universe, stranger, best friend ... 

Figure 9. Birth of universe - a first phase transition between nothingness and existence [1-8].

Jacques le Goff, The Birth of Purgatory (London Scolar Press and Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1984), 289-92, 356-59. 

Harris, H. (1999), The Birth of the Cell, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 

Maynard-Smith, J. and Szathmary, E. (2000). The Origins of Life — From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

Prof. Townes, who is presently with the University of California, Berkeley, California, kindly consented to not only attend the ceremony, but also to give the keynote address. His remarks capture the excitement and energy of the early days of maser and laser research, and also touch on the breadth of applications today. He also points out that 2004 is also the 50th year of the operation of the first maser, making this a threefold anniversary. Prof. Townes talk is included in these Proceedings under the title Birth of the Maser and Laser . 

Robert Lang, ed., The Birth of a Nation (New Brunswick Rutgers University Press, 1994). 

From the birth of the gods to the advent of dark matter, the visible sky has barely changed. It is not therefore the sky that changes, but our ideas about it. Each new cosmology opens up a new era of human experience. The truly universal matter which governs the future of the Universe, determining whether it is open or closed, may still be unknown to us, but at least we are now convinced of its existence. It is unknown, but not unknowable. Let us venture that by the tenth year of this millennium, it will have revealed its true identity. The discovery of dark matter will be a major scientific event. It remains to wonder whether it will come to us from the sky via astronomy, or from the Earth through the mediation of the particle accelerator. 

And although om natural and personal detector, the retina, shows us a tranquil sky, with a light scatter of stars across it, striking only by its steadfast inaction, the new sky revealed by telescopes and satellites sensitive to invisible emissions is one of tempest. It is animated by the birth of clouds, the creative explosion of stars and the transition of the Universe from opacity to transparence. Human perception now contemplates regions once forbidden to it. 

The revelatory power of the new astronomy, especially astronomy associated with the extreme forms of radiation, resides in its capacity to expose previously unknown processes to reason and understanding gamma astronomy, the most violent phenomena in the Universe, such as the rupture and destruction of stars, and infrared astronomy, the gentle events, such as the birth of stars. Optical astronomy fills the relatively calm gap between stellar birth and death, whilst millimetre radioastronomy opens our minds to the formation of molecular structure in great clouds of cold gases and opaque dusts, far from any devastating light. 

Smaller elements found in nature, such as hydrogen and helium, formed shortly after the birth of the universe, some 14 billion years ago. Heavier elements such as oxygen, iron, and gold formed in the nuclear reactions of stars such as the Sim during their lifetimes or, in the case of the heaviest elements, in nuclear reactions that occur at the end of a large star s lifetime, when it explodes and becomes what astronomers call a supernova. 

One friend said that he participated in a DMT group excursion in which several people linked hands and had a guide verbally take them on a trip. The entire dream team went back to the beginning of the universe and together experienced the formation of planets and other celestial bodies, and experienced the birth of humanity. He also had a dream of a DMT experience that seemed to access the same doors as the original DMT experience. Perhaps once the brain is primed, subsequent trips to the DMTverse can be made simply through dreams. My friend says,... 

Muraskin, W. 2002. The Last Years of the CVI and the Birth of the GAVI. In Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health, edited by Michael Reich. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 115-168. 

Geophysicists generally describe the composition of the universe or of the earth by mass percentages. They could use the mole, the amount of terrestrial substance of, say, aluminum. In the very processes leading to the birth of the elements, amount ratios are of prime interest. The end amount of Al would be expressed in mole per average terrestrial kilogram. 

From the isotopic decomposition of normal K one finds that the mass-40 isotope, 4°K, is much the rarest of K isotopes in the universe. It is about 8000 times less abundant than 39K, the most abundant of the three naturally occurring isotopes. But it was not always so rare. At the birth of the solar system, 4°K was 12.4 times more abundant than it is today on Earth, where its radioactive halflife has reduced its abundance by halfevery 1.28 billion years. In the Earth s atmosphere, 40 Ar happens to be the most abundant... 

A small number of married women chemists forged a path independent of their nonchemist spouse. In Chap. 4, we described the life and work of Margaret Seward, who continued university teaching even after marriage and the birth of her son. In crystallography (see Chap. 9), Dorothy Crowfoot and Kathleen Yardley were both very fortunate in their choice of academic husbands who took over much of the parenting role to allow their famous wives to continue research. In biochemistry, Helen Archbold (see Chap. 3) was also a true independent. ... 

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