LASER REVIEWERS
a monthly magazine for intelligent Homo sapiens

September - October 2016


Media highlights "Earth-like planet" found around Proxima Centauri... in "habitable zone" [Commentary: Proxima b is said to have a mass about 1.3 times that of the Earth... orbits its star in only 11.2 Earth days and might be tidally locked... also, Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf... in other words... Proxima b is an Earth-size planet but not an "Earth-like planet" ]


Strong signal from HD 164595 reintroduces speculation about possible advanced extra terrestrial civilization [Commentary: this type of speculation has been raised previously]


Some theorists argue our universe is a simulation: "our universe looks designed... the constants of nature, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces, have values that look fine-tuned to make life possible... small alterations would mean that atoms were no longer stable, or that stars could not form" [Commentary: sounds like an argument in favor of a grand design... or a creator]


On nanogods






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Published on the 1st of June, 2013; updated on the 4th of September, 2016