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TIP OF THE ICEBERG. “And in one of the most extreme examples known to science, a single fruit fly gene provides the recipe for more than 38,000 different proteins.” The end of “one gene, one protein”. https://lnkd.in/dSFn-bGv View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER JETS. “Simulated jets form near the black hole’s magnetic poles, where chaotic braids of twisted magnetic fields shoot out into interstellar space. These fields carry away some of the black hole’s energy and rotational momentum, as well as create more electrons and positrons.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER FACTORIES. “For small black holes, astrophysical jets are observed to contain a thin haze of electrons and positrons streaming out as plasma at high speeds. Existing models of black-hole behaviour indicate that particle–antiparticle pairs are produced inside intense magnetic and electric fields that swirl near a black hole’s event horizon.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

BEYOND THE UNEXPECTED. “Simple estimates suggest that about half and possibly all the antimatter is coming from X-ray binaries. We expected something unexpected, but we did not expect this.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER X-RAY BINARIES. “Gamma radiation with signature 511 KeV from positron-electron annihilation has been observed throughout the centre of the Milky Way galaxy since the 1970’s. The source of the positron emission coincides with a region with many binary star systems containing neutron stars or black holes, known as ‘hard low-mass X-ray binaries’.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

THE PROBLEM. “The spectrum of light for matter and antimatter is identical and so an antimatter galaxy would be indistinguishable from a matter galaxy.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER METAGALAXIES. “The matter supercluster, Laniakea, separated by the Taurus Void could be an antimatter supercluster, Perseus-Pisces. As antihydrogen emits light identical to hydrogen particles, some distant galaxies and or metagalaxies could be composed of antimatter.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

Stairway half way up the outer wall of Girona, perplexing to say the least. It connects two doors. View in LinkedIn

DIMENSIONAL THINKING. “The fourth dimension is to three-dimensional space as the third dimension is to two-dimensional space. 4-D:3-D::3-D:2-D. This particular analogy is one of the oldest head tricks known to man. Plato was the first to present it, in his famous allegory of the cave.” https://lnkd.in/gWbKcUFi View in LinkedIn