Month: September 2022

A lovely bracket fungus in the woods. I have preserved specimens for many decades. View in LinkedIn

DARK QUANTA OBEY INFINITE STATISTICS. “This property of dark matter may lead to some non-particle phenomenology and may explain why dark matter particles have not been detected in dark matter search experiments.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

JOINING THE DOTS. “We also show that there are deep similarities between the problem of “quantum gravity” (more specifically, the holographic spacetime foam) and turbulence.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

ALL MATTER COMPUTES. “What is the difference between a computer and a black hole? This question is not a joke, but is an intriguing problem in modern physics. The reason can be traced to the fact that all physical systems are computers. Every elementary particle stores bits of data, and every time two such particles interact, those bits are transformed. Black holes are merely the most exotic example of the general principle that the universe registers and processes information.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

IT IS BIT. “The principle is not new. In the 19th century, the founders of statistical mechanics developed what would later be called information theory to explain the laws of thermodynamics. The key player in information theory is entropy S, the macroscopic thermodynamic quantity characterizing disorder.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

THE MANTRA. “The second law of thermodynamics stipulates that disorder as embodied by entropy always increases.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM ENTROPY. ‘Entropy S can be written in terms of a microscopic probabilistic quantity W as S=klogW, where k is the Boltzmann constant. Deeply ingrained in probabilities, S finds its true home in quantum mechanics.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

KANT’S OUTER BRAIN. “The brain does not live inside the head, even though that is its formal habitat. It reaches out to the body, and with the body it reaches out to the world. The brain is hand and the hand is brain.” (Neurologist Frank Wilson). https://lnkd.in/eeu8k7FF View in LinkedIn

The bold early almond blossoms all emerge simultaneously, as blossoms must to perpetuate the species. How does that occur? View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend is from an unusual source but caught my attention. The question posed was “Does everything in the universe connect?”. Many people think this is true but finding serious-minded articles on the topic has proved challenging. This one response by somebody claiming to be a (unpublished) quantum physicist but with very little footprint on the web seemed to me to be quite profound: is it brilliance or complex stupidity? https://lnkd.in/eGcaKNch View in LinkedIn