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The surface of the cactus leaf can bead water with its water-conserving surface in the most impressive manner, reflecting its need to stop water transpiration in dry climates. View in LinkedIn

CHILDREN have a secret spiritual life. " "“Your angels?” I asked. " "“Yeah I see them right now.”" "“You see them?”" "“Yeah, I do see them and it’s like I can feel them and know they’re there. It’s like having a tea party and they’re talking about me. They let me know I’m loved.” https://lnkd.in/dRRQZ2nN View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on a new paradigm of dressed photons with practical applications by an erudite Japanese team woking with a private company in electronics. Light is everywhere, but our grasp of the true nature of photons is still a long way away. That does not stop us using photonic technology for many applications. Equally, it is not necessary to understand the brain to hack it, despite declarations to the contrary. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

THE MATHEMATICAL METAPHOR. “This quasi-particle is figuratively called the dressed photon (DP), that is, a metaphoric expression of photon energy partly fused with the energies of the material involved in the interaction.” (Physics as a branch of mysticism at its best). https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

HEURISTIC LOGIC. “The studies on the optical near field initiated practically in the late 20th century have led, through trial-and-error approaches, to the novel concept of a quasi-particle created as a result of light–matter interaction in a nanometric space.” https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

THE ANOMALY. “This non-propagating light field is called the optical near field, which is undetectable by a separately placed conventional photodetector.” https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

SURPRISE FINDING. “Suppose that a nanometer-sized material (NM) is illuminated by propagating light whose diffraction-limited size is much larger than the size of the NM. Then, an anomalous non-propagating localized light field is generated around the NM, contrary to the accepted knowledge of optics.” https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM + COSMOLOGICAL RESOLUTION. “Here, we show that a dressed photon, as well as dark energy, can be explained in terms of newly identified space-like momenta of the electromagnetic field and dark matter can be explained as the off-shell energy of the Weyl tensor field.” https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

RESOLVING THE RIDDLE. “Regarding these riddles in different disciplines, we find a common important clue for their resolution in the form of the relevance of space-like momentum support, without which quantum fields cannot interact with each other according to a mathematical result of axiomatic quantum field theory.” https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1244/htm View in LinkedIn

MULTI-MODAL PERCEPTION. “Start with two seemingly true statements: (i) We have many senses; (ii) They often interact. And that collection has features different in kind from those found in the auditory, vestibular, and nociceptive systems.” https://lnkd.in/dNcsBDuv View in LinkedIn