Ward and Brownlee are open to the idea of evolution on other planets which is not based on essential Earth-like characteristics ( such as DNA and carbon ).

Edmond Halley in 1692 put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

Although the idea that the planets orbited the Sun had been suggested many times, it was not until the 17th century that this view was supported by evidence from the first telescopic astronomical observations, performed by Galileo Galilei.

The idea of planets has evolved over its history, from the divine wandering stars of antiquity to the earthly objects of the scientific age.

In 1584 Giordano Bruno suggested that the stars were like the Sun, and may have other planets, possibly even Earth-like, in orbit around them, an idea that had been suggested earlier by the ancient Greek philosophers, Democritus and Epicurus, and by medieval Islamic cosmologists such as Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.

Plato proposed that the seemingly chaotic wandering motions of the planets could be explained by combinations of uniform circular motions centered on a spherical Earth, apparently a novel idea in the 4th century.

He also came near to deducing that gravity follows an inverse square law, and that such a relation governs the motions of the planets, an idea which was subsequently developed by Newton.

He reports that he considered the possibility of life existing on other planets as an 8-year-old, but never discussed the idea with his family or teachers due to the prevalent religious ideology.

Although Ptolemy relied mainly on the work of Hipparchus, he introduced at least one idea, the equant, which appears to be his own, and which greatly improved the accuracy of the predicted positions of the planets.

Isaac Newton ( 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 ) is credited with introducing the idea that the motion of objects in the heavens, such as planets, the Sun, and the Moon, and the motion of objects on the ground, like cannon balls and falling apples, could be described by the same set of physical laws.

The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone, as it is hoped the mission will help form an idea of how the solar system looked before planets formed.

Humanity's exploration of space, its interest in colonizing and even terraforming other planets, lends some plausibility to the idea that Gaia might in effect be able to reproduce.

17th-century successors Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton developed an understanding of physics which led to the gradual acceptance of the idea that the Earth moves round the Sun and that the planets are governed by the same physical laws that governed the Earth.

A key idea is the formation of collective minds from many telepathically linked individuals, on the level of planets, galaxies, and eventually the cosmos itself.

Walking along the Planetenwanderweg allows hikers to get an intuitive idea of the relative distances between the orbits of the planets and the Sun.

:" The idea of benign or hostile space aliens from other planets visiting the earth clearly an emotional idea.

Before the idea of heralds, Galactus created a self-replicating program that sought out planets for him.

The idea of an alien being absorbing energy is similar to both the Marvel Comics character Galactus, who drains energy from other worlds to survive, and the giant space ship from the Star Trek episode " The Doomsday Machine " which destroys planets and uses them to fuel itself, though predating both by almost ten years.

However, he goes on to say that, " For most people, considering round satellites ( including our Moon ) " planets " violates the idea of what a planet is.

These beings are, however, spiritual beings on another dimension's version of those planets, as the idea of corporeal intelligent life on Mars and Venus was known to be unlikely in the 1950s.

" Lord Morpeth thought it had " much that is able, startling, striking " and progressive development did not conflict with Genesis more than then current geology, but did " not care much for the notion that we are engendered by monkeys " and objected strongly to the idea that the Earth was " a member of a democracy " of similar planets.

Smart is the principal advocate of the concept of “ STEM compression ,” ( formerly " MEST compression ") the idea that the most ( ostensibly ) complex of the universe ’ s extant systems at any time ( galaxies, stars, habitable planets, living systems, and now technological systems ) use progressively less space, time, energy and matter (“ STEM ”) to create the next level of complexity in their evolutionary development.

The idea that the planets do not move in a uniform rate, but with a speed proportional to their distance, was completely revolutionary, and would become his second law ( discovered before his first ).

The current idea is that giant planets form in the outer reaches of their system ( in orbits similar to those of Jupiter and Saturn ).

The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.

In them he concentrated on the idea that prophetic inspiration was possible even in post-Talmudic times, and, indeed, had taken place at various times and in various schools, from the Geonim to Maimonides and beyond.

I don't care what his position is, if he writes something or speaks something that goes beyond anything that you can find in the standard works, unless that one be the prophet, seer, and revelator — please note that one exception — you may immediately say, " Well, that is his own idea!

The notion of the Absurd contains the idea that there is no meaning to be found in the world beyond what meaning we give to it.

In the 1970s the term Neo-Evolutionism was used to describe the idea " that human beings sought to preserve a familiar style of life unless change was forced on them by factors that were beyond their control ".

The definition of fractal goes beyond self-similarity per se to exclude trivial self-similarity and include the idea of a detailed pattern repeating itself.

Bush's idea for the memex extended far beyond a mechanism which might augment the research of one individual working in isolation.

From Germany the idea spread to the UK, Canada, the United States and beyond where a network of clubs developed.

There was very little, actually, beyond the determination of the men and women who believed in the power of the Opel idea and the 83 years over which it had been created.

The idea of a network system which would distribute programming to many stations simultaneously, saving each station the expense of creating all of its own programs and expanding the total coverage beyond the limits of a single broadcast signal, was devised.

Because happiness is beyond anything physical, Plotinus stresses the point that worldly fortune does not control true human happiness, and thus “… there exists no single human being that does not either potentially or effectively possess this thing we hold to constitute happiness .” ( Enneads I. 4. 4 ) The issue of happiness is one of Plotinus ’ greatest imprints on Western thought, as he is one of the first to introduce the idea that eudaimonia ( happiness ) is attainable only within consciousness.

This idea was disproved in 1577 by Tycho Brahe, who used parallax measurements to show that comets must lie beyond the Moon.

Christian thinkers did not discount the idea that there might be land beyond the southern seas, but the issue of whether it could be inhabited was controversial.

The idea is that, beyond the conditions and laws we can observe or deduce, there are also hidden factors or " hidden variables " that determine absolutely in which order photons reach the detector screen.

This discovery had heralded the existence of incommensurable quantities beyond the integers and rational fractions, but at the same time it threw into question the idea of measurement and calculations in geometry as a whole.

Roughly, the term indicates preserving the useful portion of an idea, thing, society, etc., while moving beyond its limitations.

The idea is that due to quantum gravity effects, there is a minimum distance beyond which the force of gravity no longer continues to increase as the distance between the masses becomes shorter.

An individual understands language better than they are able to speak communicate it, they may have a lot to say but have difficulties organizing and retrieving the words to get an idea across beyond what is expected for his / her developmental stage.

* 12th century — Fakhr al-Din al-Razi discusses Islamic cosmology, rejects Aristotle's idea of an Earth-centered universe, and, in the context of his commentary on the Qur ' anic verse, " All praise belongs to God, Lord of the Worlds ," proposes that the universe has more than " a thousand thousand worlds beyond this world such that each one of those worlds be bigger and more massive than this world as well as having the like of what this world has.

The outlaw group resisting a powerful and corrupt regime is an idea familiar from Robin Hood and beyond.

He had replied that, contrary to all his previous detailed assertions, he had no idea where the map came from, beyond Ferrajoli ( who had been convicted of theft shortly after the sale, and died shortly after leaving prison ).

This it is which gives some notion of God, while yet beyond all our conceptions — our very incapacity of fully grasping Him affords us the idea of what He really is.

Neoliberals follow a similar line, often focusing on " market-oriented solutions " to market failure: for example, they propose going beyond the common idea of having the government charge a fee for the right to pollute ( internalizing the external cost, creating a disincentive to pollute ) to allow polluters to sell the pollution permits.

National interests and foreign affairs are still deemed to be beyond the average citizen's competence, and the idea that the party / government knows best is still prevalent in the popular mind.

Dayan, not knowing about the serdab entrance, started investigating the shaft visible beyond the decorative grate and came up with the idea of sending someone thin enough through the shaft and down into the chamber below.