Interesting adaptation of Moore's Law

[cartman]

Moore's Law is known as the prediction that transistor counts on chips would double every two years. Researchers have found that using this concept, it relates to many other areas besides technology by tracing the growth in complexity backwards.

Some researchers came up with an interesting theory to see what would happen if they used a variant of Moore's Law to backtrack the complexity of life. Based on their guesstimates, the origins of life began somewhere between 7.5 and 9.5 billion years ago. Which is older than the Earth.

Obviously this is still a work in progress in the very early stages, but it does bring up some interesting points of discussion.

Moore's Law and the Origin of Life | MIT Technology Review

[Lonnie]

Great article. Didn't change my mind.

[Daimyo]

Very interesting. I think it fails a bit in the way it uses knowledge gleaned in the middle to make estimates about the fringes which makes it tough to use as evidence that life started somewhere besides earth.