Daniel Valente
A pergunta científica que busco responder é: "quão simples poderia ser a vida?"*
Meu objetivo é tentar encontrar sistemas físicos suficientemente simples capazes de imitar diversos (idealmente todos) os aspectos mais significativos dos organismos vivos tais como os conhecemos.
Uso ferramentas teóricas (matemáticas) baseadas nas teorias de sistemas quânticos abertos e da interação da radiação com a matéria.
A justificativa para essa busca é principalmente fundamental (compreender melhor a vida como um fenômeno físico emergente na matéria longe do equilíbrio termodinâmico), mas também tem seu lado prático (abrir caminhos para a criação de tecnologias inspiradas nos organismos vivos).**
*A pergunta é tradução do título do provocador artigo da Dra. Petra Schwille, pesquisadora em biologia sintética:
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If science sometimes becomes so high that human mind will not be able to grasp the whole of it, and human life will be too short, to reach the frontier lines, and labour on science's augmentation, could not it create more human research groups, and could not perform by their combined effect of what one person can not perform? ... Opportunities for co-operational research should be studied in much greater detail than before, because so far they are the only visible hope of the rejuvenation of science, when it will increase too large for one person.
Eugene Wigner: https://wigner.mta.hu/en/our-eponym-eugene-p-wigner
It deeply bothers me that we have not received a message yet from alien civilizations. It is likely that there are habitable planets, peoples or other similar creatures live on them. It is also likely that some of the earlier started civilizations has gained more knowledge than we. Therefore it is surprising that they have not contacted us. I don't think of a direct visit, since the distances are huge, but of telecommunications. I'm surprised there is only one Earth and one species that is curious. I can think of two solutioons to the problem. One possibility is that in the past they have also developed a civilization, science, technology, but they started an arms race, and destroyed themselves, and all their world . If this is an inevitable phenomenon of a civilization, it might explain the silence. Another option is that they have developed the science, which raised their standard of living. But the luxury made them lazy, they stopped reading books, just stared at the TV. Maybe physics became too complicated for them, they deemed it boring, they lost their curiosity and stopped science. Maybe that's why peoples that precede us with 50-100 years are not interested in establishing a relationship with us. Nevertheless, I hope that my fear about the end of the story is wrong.
Eugene Wigner: https://wigner.mta.hu/en/our-eponym-eugene-p-wigner
When I got into music I went all the way into music; I didn't have no time after that for nothing else.
Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis
Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself
Miles Davis
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note - it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
Miles Davis
I was playing the fuck out of my horn and had a great group, so I didn't get recognition based only on a rebel image.
Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
Miles Davis
If you don't know what to play, play nothing
Miles Davis