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NUCLEAR COLD FISION. “It demands the injection and fusion of hydrogen, deuterium, tritium and muonium in palladium molecular crystal.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

An assembly of two stones and a tree seed. View in LinkedIn

TRADITIONAL CUT OFFS. “Some have localized the threshold of life” at the level of self-replicating informational polymers, catalytic networks, metabolism, thermodynamic properties, autopoiesis, membrane formation, or the level of entities in some type of hierarchy.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL TICKETS on 2nd October at 3-4 pm, at the Petersfield Museum, Hampshire UK. Talk by my old friend, naturalist, The Times newspaper nature columnist, and published butterfly author with four books under his belt, Mathew Oates, titled ‘The ever encouraging friend' - Discovering WH Hudson.’ Worth an hour, for certain. https://lnkd.in/dCNnzynM View in LinkedIn

THE TRADITIONAL BRIGHT LINE. “There is, however, an implicit assumption that is often made in conjunction with such claims: the assumption that there exists a strict delineation between life and non-life.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

SUBJECT MATTER. “In this work we studied possible formation of exotic molecules based on the interaction of antihydrogen with hydrogen, deuterium and tritium atoms.” Experimentally challenging. https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

THE HARD TO CLASSIFY. “From spontaneously self-reorganizing crystals to mega-viruses to drastically reduced micro-endosymbionts, all these microscopic entities that we mentioned in the introduction constitute a set of entities that are hard to categorize as either truly living or truly non-living.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION OF LIFE. “However the real difficulty lays elsewhere: in the surprising diversity of borderline cases—giant viruses, sterile organisms, extreme microsymbionts, etc.—and disputes that follow their categorization as alive or not.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

DEGREES OF LIFELESSNESS. “Building on these dimensions-related differences, we also computed a single value of overall lifeness for each more-or-less-alive entity, thereby providing an empirically-founded quantification of degrees of lifeness.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

PROPERTY CLUSTERS. “They also show how different degrees of overall lifeness can be achieved in different ways. This multidimensional way of mapping borderline entities exemplifies the need of reformulating questions of the type “Is X alive?” into questions of the type “What is the lifeness of X?”. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn