Interview: Prof. Lee Cronin - Detecting the Chemistry of Life

[@larrybeckham6652]

Wow! Dr. Cronin is the outrageous, infuriating, and challenging chemist I had ever heard. I like him.

[@denverscott3423]

BRILLIANT thank you Fraser and ProfessorCronin. you just made my morning watching this exciting and informative video. The advances in Astro: physics, chemistry and biology are increasingly dazzling!. BRAVO STEM. 👩‍🎓🔭🎧🧬🙌

[@stevencoardvenice]

Love your interviews Fraser. For someone who is "not a youtuber," you are definitely one of the best astrobiology/astronomy KZbinrs. I really hope you eventually get NASA Ames Astrobiologist Chris McKay on here to talk astrobiology and Mars/Enceladus missions

[@gamerxt333]

Technically he is a KZbinr, unless you`re idea of a KZbinr is someone who`s main occupation is to upload videos.

[@stevencoardvenice]

@@gamerxt333 Fraser says he's not a youtuber. So there u have it

[@larrybeckham6652]

Yes. Fraser Cain is modern version of the Walter Cronkite of science journalism!

[@gamerxt333]

​@@stevencoardvenice A KZbinr is simply someone who uploads or hosts in videos often, so I guess their idea of a KZbinr is different then.

[@cryptolicious3738]

fantastic interview, good luck prof cronin

[@davidswift9120]

Hey Fraser...This has to be one of the best interviews you've done. Lee Cronin and his work is my top search subject at the moment (though the weird plant life on Socotra Island was coming a close second this morning!). I came to this after watching your interview with Dr. Michio Kaku which to be honest, I didn't like at all. I simply got the impression he was there just to sell his book and pedalling his usual collection of "woowoo" outlandish theories about alternative universes and human evolution in a billion years time. Honestly...human beings may survive this century, but technological civilization in any meaningful sense is doubtful. For example, the hunter gatherers on Sentinel Island are one of the very few communities on Earth that haven't been touched by outsiders for 50000 years, and for good reason. These are the kinds of people who are most likely to survive us as they just rely on an equilibrium with their environment (these people are of African extraction...surviving in South East Asia!. That should say something). : kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYDbaIiHZdJ3aac&ab_channel=OceanofFun

[@dominicklittle9828]

This guy is blowin my mind

[@badrinair]

cant understand why there is so less views. I am sure the podcasts of these interview has more listens. I listen to the podcast most of the time .

[@dax9943]

I enjoyed this interview greatly! Fraser these are awesome keep it up. If time and entropy are equivalent wouldn't it make more sense to eliminate time rather than entropy? To me entropy provides the driving force for selection while time is just the measure of the moments of an event along the entropy continuum.

[@cliffordbotha4807]

great interview. i was glued to my seat throughout

[@ninogaggi]

Glasgow yaaaasssss!

[@adamtschupp9825]

Hi frasier, I was thinking about the difficulty of space travel on super earths and I was wondering, how massive can a planet be before its gravity makes space travel by chemical rockets physically impossible?

[@Video2Webb]

Good question! Clearly there have to be optimal size planets for rockets to be able to leave them to explore space. Too big - not going anywhere until highly advanced fuel systems can overcome the gravity.

[@OraYakovi]

Fraser Cain, I challenge you to bring brilliant Professor James Tour of Materials Science and Nano Engineering at Rice University to debate Lee Cronin's hypothesis and shred it to bits.

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Do astronomers who use large telescopes like the VLT operate them on site, or are the people in the buildings just technicians?

[@jimpifarre4601]

If our universe is expanding at an increasing speed, will there be a time that we will be traveling at the speed of light, and if so what effect will that have on us ?

[@Keith136ful]

In the beginning of this interview when Dr. Cronin spoke of biology, physics and chemistry, is it weird that I was thinking of Amy Farrah Fowler looking for the biological moment that we decide to move our arm and Sheldon linking that to the collapse of the waveform?

[@fernandosalazar2298]

Oops! He was doing so well but selection is not separate from things bumping into each other. Selection “is” bumping things into another… otherwise stimulating as always, thank you 😊

[@Video2Webb]

Your point must be put to Prof.Cronin by someone soon!

[@Mycoblastus]

Very interesting, thanks!

[@anastasianicholson5728]

Very interesting interview

[@nathanmcknight187]

This is great... it looks like Fraser Cain is sitting in Professor Cronin's back room. :D

[@jasongannon7676]

Space cemetery is a untapped conversion that deserves more exploration

[@sokasbogo6912]

Will different chemical structure also depend on pressure,temperature,atmosphere etc at the time of origin?

[@sokasbogo6912]

Gravity,solar flare etc.

[@siRrk1337]

chance leads to selection leads to design; and the overarching algorythm is evolution. life is not selected for, life selects.

[@OraYakovi]

It is God (Elohim of the Bible in a heavenly realm), who gives “breath unto the people” on earth, and “spirit” to “walk therein” (Isaiah 42:5 - KJV, in part). This is why no man-made created cell in a test tube in an earthly laboratory will ever have Elohim’s “breath” and “spirit” to make it a living soul. Even newborn babies have not survived after the umbilical cord is cut without Elohim’s “breath” of life. A stillborn baby does not have a living soul, but is a dead soul. This is why except for Elohim, no one on this planet will ever create a living cell/gene/molecule - otherwise they would be God!

[@aresmars2003]

43:00 What if the "laws" of chemistry are DEPENDENT upon the proximity of life (or Gaia life since the Cambrian explosion), so chemistry acts differently on the prolific modern earth than on the dead moon or Mars or another star system. Do we really know life from earth can thrive off the earth until we try and see EMPIRICALLY, i.e. reproduce conditions of life on earth - temperature, water, nutrients, light, gravity(?), and see what happens on Mars? Even on the ISS, that's low earth orbit, perhaps in the "field" of the earth. Astronauts survived going to the moon, but only for a week or so. The Chinese recently sprouted life on the moon, but it immediately died when lunar night came with the extreme cold.

[@RockawayCCW]

For your next question show... Has Saturn's north pole ever been visible from earth?

[@sageii5614]

Did you ask him about UFOs?

[@Dragrath1]

Interesting I disagree with him on entropy since it can be intrinsically linked to entanglement and time in the Feynman path integral. His selection is equivalent to interaction or measurement they are not isolated what he describes is entropy the advancement of cosmic iteration at all scales in all unique configurations. The prospect of fundamental (and abstract) computation is looking extremely promising if one has been paying attention to Wolfram's physics project given that at a metalevel it promotes Turing machines to the role of a universal generator for the domain of mathematical concepts Platonic realm of which physical reality is but a subset . His notion of information as an emergent property breaks down horribly in that framework as information can be interpreted as what the system iterates on to generate the next iteration computing each and every possible unique method simultaneously. As for the origin of life I have been suspecting rocks for a while given the deep connection between rocks and LUCA which at the very least doesn't suggest any particular membrane structure and a carbon fixation pathway based on combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide using transition metals as electron donars. There is also got to be some connection to anesthesia since for some reason it seems all life as far as we can tell reacts similarly seeming to go into some sort of pause state. Its so weird with how versatile and adaptive life is that nothing we have tested wouldn't have either developed a resistance to or begun to exploit this type of chemistry.

[@daviddean707]

We're going to twist our science into life discovery even if there's nothing.

[@zapfanzapfan]

"Where did we come from?" and "are we alone?", answering either one might give us the answer to the other.

[@wesleypatterson2883]

Bonejeadamundo.

[@theuntouchable7277]

What a snake oil salesman. Just get some critique material by James Tour. OoL is smoke and mirrors total nonsense.