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THE CURIOUS MIND. “Abbé Haüy studied the behavior of a specimen of calcite when it was cleaved, and by breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces and studying the angles between the faces of the fragments, he convinced himself that the crystal was made up by the repetition of a large number of identical units.” https://lnkd.in/daJvgt2i View in LinkedIn

DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY. “Nearly 20 years ago, when the teenaged Tabebordbar learned that just one gene was at the root of most genetic muscle diseases, he thought fixing it should be simple. “We know what gene is defective,” he says. “If we can just replace that one gene, that would be it. So why is it taking so long?” This was the mantra 20 years ago, I used to say it myself. https://lnkd.in/d-fHXvT2 View in LinkedIn

AVOIDING THE WELL TRODDEN PATH. “Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642): ‘In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

ATTRACTORS AND REPELLERS. “It was observed by Hoffman in 2017, that our local galaxy is being pulled towards the Shapley attractor, but in the opposite direction is apparently being repelled by a region devoid of galaxies. The ‘Dipole Repeller’ is a centre of effective repulsion in the large-scale flow of galaxies in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way. It is thought to be represented as a large supervoid, the Dipole Repeller Void.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS. “It is anticipated that the CERN ALPHA-g, G bar or AEgIS experiments will determine the effect of gravity between matter and antimatter by 2021.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

THE THESIS. “A strong case for the negative gravitational mass of antimatter and subsequent gravitational repulsion of matter and antimatter has been presented.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

DARK MATTER. “Vilatta stated in conclusion: These new cosmological scenarios could eliminate the uncomfortable presence of an unidentified dark energy, and maybe also of cosmological dark matter, which, according to the Λ-CDM concordance model, would together represent more than the 95% of the Universe content. If large-scale voids are the location of antimatter, why should we not observe anything there?” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

THE HYPOTHESIS. “Vilatta stated in conclusion: ‘The gravitational repulsion would prevent the mutual annihilation of isolated and alternated systems of matter and antimatter. The location of antimatter could be identified with the well-known large-scale voids observed in the distribution of galaxy clusters and superclusters.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

EXPANDING UNIVERSE. “In 2011, Vilatta conjectured that matter and antimatter repulsion could explain the acceleration of expansion of the Universe. This theoretical prediction of antigravity between matter and antimatter supports cosmological models attempting to explain the observed accelerated expansion.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

PARTIAL SALVAGE. “In this way some symmetry is lost, but right-left symmetry is still obeyed in a changed sense. (The changed sense of reflection has been illustrated' in a marvelous drawing by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher reproduced in Figure 12).” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn