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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the moiré interference caused by stacks of imperfect graphene and their tremendous applications. Carbon is now threatening to augment or displace silicone electronics. It is no accident that the strange properties of this atom resulted in carbon-based life. View in LinkedIn

MATTER>ANTIMATTER. “This imbalance, at a level of a few particles per 10 billion photons, is ultimately responsible for the existence of Earth, planets, stars and ourselves: if there were equal amounts of matter and antimatter, they would have destroyed each other in the early Universe and annihilated into photons. No matter would have remained.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

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HUBBLE SHOT, one of thousands that remain seared i to our minds. https://lnkd.in/eMTyNap5 View in LinkedIn

THE OMINOUS NUMINOUS. “The sense of presence considered here is an 'other' that is radically different from, and hence more than a mere projection of, the self. Such a numinous sense of otherness may constitute a primordial core consciousness of the animate and sentient in the world around us.” https://lnkd.in/e8k2TGHC View in LinkedIn

CONSEQUENCES. “The probability of this oscillation occurring is small, but it holds the key to leptonic CP violation: if CP symmetry is conserved, the oscillation probability for muon-to-electron neutrino conversion would be the same as that for muon-to-electron antineutrino conversion.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEW FINDING. “Since their discovery, neutrino oscillations have been analysed in several experiments, but only in the past few years have tiny oscillations from muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos been observed.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

CHANGELINGS. “Importantly, the superposition state can change over time because the components evolve differently (Fig. 1). For example, a neutrino that was produced as purely muon-flavoured can become partly an electron neutrino.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

WONDERLAND. “Neutrino oscillation is the phenomenon whereby neutrinos change from one flavour to another as they travel. It is a quantum-mechanical effect that arises because each neutrino flavour is effectively a mixture — a quantum superposition — of three states that have different masses.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO MASS. “However, the discovery of neutrino oscillations by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in 1998, and by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in 2002, proved that these particles do have mass.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn