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LANDING GUIDES. “At a distance of 2–3 cm shown in Fig. 4, the region between the bee and the flower has an electric field of over 5 kV/m. This is comparable in magnitude to the electric field at the ground under a high-voltage power line. This field strength is much higher than that required to elicit mechanical and neural responses from bumble bee hairs.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

LOCAL FIELDS. “The bee carries a positive charge that it acquires while flying. The flower gains a negative charge through electrostatic induction. The forces that exist between charges fall off with the square of their distance, so that the forces between bee and flower increase quickly as the bee approaches.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this one on the theme of the electrostatic relationship between bees and flowers. The more that we study nature, the more levels of complexity emerge; in this case, the coevolution of two unrelated species have found nuanced ways to communicate, previously invisible to us. Nature continues to reveal her secrets. View in LinkedIn

Flowstone of calcite, laid down by mineral rich water in caves over millions of years. View in LinkedIn

NESTED. “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.” (Richard Feynman) https://lnkd.in/dxnezfjs View in LinkedIn

VISUALIZATION. “The anti-universe should be observable by gravitational lensing, predicting "MACHOS" of approximately stellar mass, and multiple micro-lensing of quasars. Non-existence of primordial antimatter of Z > 1, and a large variation in the quantities of dark matter associated with different individual galaxies are predicted.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

THE HUMAN EPHEMERON. “No other science exerted as great an influence on historical thinking of the late Enlightenment as geology. I argue that the significance of geology lies in the reorganization of the past, shifting the position of man in the earth’s history from the centre to the outermost edge.” (Add these blows to the collective human ego to those from Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Hubble, Schrodinger). https://lnkd.in/dHenvti5 View in LinkedIn

NEW LANGUAGE. “Are floral electric fields adapted, much like colours and fragrances are, to signal resource provisioning to bees, or their readiness for pollination?” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

FALSE PREMISE. “Physicists often have concluded that because the mathematics describing the universe is symmetric in time, then the universe itself must be. They have not been fully consistent, however.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

SKEPTICS AWAY. “This is a complete mystery under current theory. Temporary suspension of disbelief may be worthwhile, since the theory below can fit these MACHO observations.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817). https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn