Stephen Hawking dismisses belief in God in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. Photograph: Solar & Heliospheric Observatory/Discovery Channel T he belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a fairy story for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said. In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.
How are the tails and heads of membrane phospholipids oriented in their environment? a. The hydrophobic heads are oriented towards each other and the hydrophillic tails are oriented towards the extracellular fluid and the intracellular fluid.
These molecules organize into a. bilayer, with the head groups facing. toward the outside and the inside of the. cell, and the lipid tails pointing towards. each other (Figure 1). The amphipathic. nature of these molecules define the. role of the membrane, to allow for the.