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UNEXPLAINED. “Current theory has no good explanation of why so many such particles should survive mutual annihilation, in order to exist today, or any plausible mechanism so that a proportion of less than about one particle in every ten billion created (based on the ten billion to one present ratio of photons to baryons) survived annihilation, and then only as matter, not antimatter.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

Xanthoria parientina is one of few creatures that can survive for years in outer space. What utility could this have possibly served? ;) View in LinkedIn

WONDERFUL CLASSIC. “As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In the second of three volumes, Lyell (1797-1875) continues his uniformitarian argument of Volume I—the physical features of the earth are endlessly fluctuating around a stable mean—but focuses on organic rather than inorganic processes.” https://lnkd.in/dMupmD5Q View in LinkedIn

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION. “The gravity of mass concentrations in the antiuniverse would be a much more elegant mechanism than the vast numbers of primordial black holes which have been suggested as an explanation.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER LENSING. “It has been reported by M.R.S. Hawkins that light from quasars appears to have been bent slightly, many times, in its path to us by many invisible concentrations of mass.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

ANTISTAR CANDIDATE. “One such instance may already have been detected. It is hard to imagine another explanation for invisible MACHOS of masses large enough to radiate if composed of ordinary baryons, especially for binary ones.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

DETECTING ANTISTARS. “Many have been detected, but are much too heavy, so should be visible. If this hypothesis is correct, there are many antistars to be so detected. Binaries should also be very common, as they are in our universe, and we should expect binary MACHOS to be detected by gravitational lensing.” https://lnkd.in/d4BvAHFn View in LinkedIn

NEW TOOLS. “Recent work on attempting to detect massive compact halo objects (MACHOS) by gravitational lensing has been very successful. The assumption was that MACHOS would be very large stray planets or very small stars, both being too small to initiate significant nuclear fusion and hence visible radiation.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS. “In the event that somehow a survey showed that dark matter throughout the visible universe were moving on average in some net direction, it would imply under this hypothesis that the two universes were rotating relative to each other's background radiation rest frame.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

HOLOBIONTS. “Three claims might be taken as implicit in this language: (1) that many of the microbial and macrobial taxa associated in such multi-species assemblages are metabolically (or developmentally or structurally) interdependent, (2) that such interdependence has co-evolved as a consequence of their association, and (3) that holobionts can be considered units of selection.” https://lnkd.in/dk3R9p6y View in LinkedIn