Year: 2022

CHARGE PICTURES. “Flower anatomy plays a role in building a structured electric field. The difference in charge density between different structures can be thought of as electrical “contrast”. The geometry of petal edges, where charge density is high, provides spatial structure to the floral field, giving it an outline. There is further contrast between the flat petal surfaces and the protruding trichomes, stigma, and anthers.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on the investigation of the detection of weak electric fields by bees and how flowers may have used this device to provide the bees with information about nectar supply, and how the electrostatic charge assists bees in gathering pollen against the force of gravity. Undoubtedly one of many unknown senses we are just starting to uncover. https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

WHERE IS TRUTH? “All the proofs of mathematics that were taught to me were obviously fallacious.” (Bertrand Russell on entering Cambridge University). https://youtu.be/xL_sMXfzzyA View in LinkedIn

FUNNY GHOSTS. The inimitable illustrations by Arthur B Frost of Phantasmagoria by Lewis Carroll (1911). https://lnkd.in/dMrMDjf6 View in LinkedIn

APPROACHING VALIDATION. “Interestingly, the recent analysis based on the 10-year Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray source catalog has identified 14 point-like candidates emitting γ’s with a spectrum compatible to baryon- antibaryon annihilation.” https://lnkd.in/dWfwWeTG View in LinkedIn

THE KEY. “Our mechanism should produce also the heavier antinuclei, and thus AMS-02 can be the place where to find fantastic animals as anticarbon or antioxygen which would be a key for many mysteries.” https://lnkd.in/dWfwWeTG View in LinkedIn

ANTISTARS. “The existence of macroscopic objects from antimatter (antistars) is envisaged in some models of baryogenesis. Searches for antistars has been usually carried out in gamma-rays through hadronic annihilation of matter.” https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

SPECTRAL FINGERPRINT. “In astrophysically plausible cases of the interaction of neutral atmospheres or winds from antistars with ionized interstellar gas, the hadronic annihilation will be preceeded by the formation of excited ̄ and He ̄ atoms. These atoms rapidly cascade down to low levels prior to annihilation giving rise to a series of narrow lines which can be associated with the hadronic annihilation gamma-ray emission.”""h https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

NEW TOOLS. “These lines can be probed in dedicated observations by forthcoming sensitive X-ray spectroscopic missions XRISM and Athena and in wide-field X-ray surveys like SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey.” https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

MATTER LOCALITY. “According to the accepted conviction, the universe in our neighborhood consists solely of matter, and the existence of macroscopically large antimatter objects is absolutely excluded. This is in accordance with the conventional picture that the excess of baryons over antibaryons in the Universe is generated by Sakharov’s mechanism.” https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn