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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for GodIn between, the diagonal layer of black clay contains the worldwide iridium-rich fallout of debris from the crater excavated by the collision of an asteroid or comet. This layer is found everywhere on Earth where rocks of this age are exposed. The edge of a coin at the top is for scale. Figure 36. Cretaceous-Tertiary Impact Don Davis, one of the greatest painters of science-based art, takes us to the panicky last second of the age of the dinosaurs. An asteroid or comet some 10 kilometers in diameter plunged through the shallow ocean near what is now Yucatan in Mexico, igniting global wildfires and producing a dense cloud of smoke and dust that darkened and froze the surface of the Earth. Carl Sagan *** [1] The Lorentz transformations specify how time slows down and length contracts in any frame of reference depending on its relative speed. Einstein's theory of special relativity derived the Lorentz transformation by assuming a constant speed of light for all observers. [2] There is something anthropocentric without a doubt in talking about liquid water, but let's grant them that ...» |
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