Month: September 2022

LITTLE THINGS RUN THE WORLD. “The Brazilian rainforest has for each 2.5 acres ~ a few dozen birds and mammals, but over 1 billion invertebrates, or 93% of the dry mass of animal tissue. “ (the inimitable E.O. Wilson). https://lnkd.in/deAfwhm View in LinkedIn

Distant view, where the sound of the bells carried to mediaeval field workers on each quarter hour. View in LinkedIn

HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “What is the equation of state of nuclear matter at neutron star densities, and what are the relevant degrees of freedom at these densities? Is there a phase transition from hadronic to quark-gluon matter, or a region of phase coexistence? Do exotic QCD phases like quarkyonic matter exist?” https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn

HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “To what extent are the properties of hadrons modified in dense baryonic matter? Are we able to find indications of chiral symmetry restoration?” https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn

HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “How far can we extend the chart of nuclei towards the third (strange) dimension by producing single and double hypernuclei? Does strange matter exist in the form of heavy multi-strange objects?” https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn

HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “What is the production mechanism of charm quarks at threshold beam energies, how does open and hidden charm propagate in cold and in hot nuclear matter?” https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn

HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “The CBM detector is designed to identify hadrons, electrons and muons in heavy-ion collisions, and to measure multi-differential observables with unprecedented precision and statistics. This includes the study of rare diagnostic probes such as multi-strange (anti-) hyperons, (double-) Lambda-hypernuclei, charmed particles and vector mesons decaying into lepton pairs. Most of these particles will be studied for the first time in the FAIR energy range.” (CBM = Compressed Baryonic Matter). https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn

MATTER MODELS. “We have constructed models of uniformly rotating compact stars including hyperons, Bose-Einstein condensates of antikaons, and quarks. First order phase transitions from hadronic to antikaon condensed matter and then to quark matter are considered here. For the equation of state undergoing phase transitions to antikaon condensates, the third family of compact stars are found to exist in the fixed angular velocity sequences.” https://lnkd.in/duCtYdE View in LinkedIn

CHANGING VIEWPOINT. “For centuries, right up until the 1960s, the notion life on Mars—and elsewhere—wasn't considered especially remarkable.” https://lnkd.in/dikkCHS View in LinkedIn

A door in Girona. View in LinkedIn