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TIME INVARIANT. “We do not know what time is, we only know what motion is. Note that all the equations in physics are invariant to time reversal.” https://lnkd.in/dMwwpStG View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second and last weekend on insect electroreception. These new findings underscore that the the sensorium is largely invisible and yet to be revealed, and the organs and receptors of these signals are probably lying in plain sight. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” (Nikola Tesla). https://lnkd.in/dWsaP7xy View in LinkedIn

UNTAPPED SENSES. “Neuroscientists are well aware that we are a bundle of senses. As this video by Aeon explains, many would argue that we have anywhere between 22 and 33 different senses.” https://lnkd.in/d9AUiDCb View in LinkedIn

ICEBERG. “The ubiquity of electric fields in the environment means that signals in this modality could potentially be used by a broad range of species in an array of contexts; from intraspecific communication to predator avoidance and prey detection.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

INVISIBLE WORLD. “The tripartite interactions between bees, flowers, and the electric field that exist all around them, reveal thus far underappreciated physical and sensory ecologies. These interactions are likely to be diverse and maybe ubiquitous among insects since all are subject to the laws that govern the force of electromagnetism.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

CONFOUNDERS. “High humidity, for example, leads to the formation of moist films on surfaces which prevent charge build up, and a dense rainforest canopy acts like a Faraday cage, negating the influence of the atmospheric electric field at ground level, possibly preventing the formation of floral electric fields altogether.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

NEW FIELD. “As a recently defined field, there is still a vast amount that is unknown in the electrical ecology of pollination, each from the perspectives of the bee the flower and the electric field.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

OLD LINKS. “Electrostatics and electroreception are likely to be a bona fide part of the multiple co-evolutionary adaptations between plants and their pollinators.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk 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