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The water impermeability of a plant cuticle is deceptive because the sprinkled stomata on these surfaces not only allow gas exchance in the plant but can actively absorb water also. View in LinkedIn

SUMMARY 5. “The finite size of photons is the cause of all optical phenomena at the interface between two media, as well as diffraction.” https://lnkd.in/eftm7VFM View in LinkedIn

SUMMARY 4. “The angular rotation of photons with continuous translational motion provides them with wave properties.” https://lnkd.in/eftm7VFM View in LinkedIn

Common Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in the garden crafted on its underwings to resemble a leaf in true biomimicry. View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second weekend on this truly stunning article. It is so refreshing to hear established academics break with the tiered old saw that life is a once-only exceptional event and that Earth is the only place this miracle occurred. Clearly piffle derived from tiered old religious thinking. Equally that there is a sharp line between life and non-life, rather than life being emergent from non-life. https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

ABUNDANT COSMIC LIFE. “One of the important ramifications of the SOFT-NET interpretation is that living matter and consciousness, both being natural consequences of the evolution and self-organization of nonliving matter, may turn out to be highly abundant in the Universe at large.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

LIFE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF MATTER. “In other words, life is likely to be a rule rather than an exception in the Universe at large. This may mean that the living Earth grows and develops in an invisible competition with a great variety of alien life forms, which grow and develop throughout the Universe, feeding on the (same) flow of energy/matter that makes up the Universe.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

LIFE AS A CONTINUUM. “If we assume that the main difference between living matter and nonliving matter is that of organization, then life is a natural consequence of the evolution of nonliving matter.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

BIOMASS ACCUMULATION. “Notice that, since the Earth's biomass has been continuously increasing over macroevolutionary time at an accelerating pace, it appears that living matter as a whole grows by extracting and assimilating electrons and protons from nonliving matter at an accelerating rate.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

PRECONDITION. “Large-scale, organized electron flow becomes much more feasible in far-from-equilibrium conditions, as compared to the equilibrium state.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn