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ARTIFICIAL LINE. “There is no such thing as life! There are interesting chemical reactions, like Stephen Hawking, and less interesting chemical reactions like salt crystals...There is no line, no ‘breath of life’ separating living from nonliving. That is a metaphysical bit of silliness. We should focus on interesting over boring chemical reactions and forget about this line that does not exist except in our own minds.” (The famous quantum physicist, Jonathan P. Dowling (2013), Page 430). https://lnkd.in/eWbBjM7i View in LinkedIn

Notes by Fred Hoyle that were part of one of science’s most famous papers, unravelling the stellar origin of all the elements. " " https://lnkd.in/eHi58V_F View in LinkedIn

HYPERBOLAE. “The overall pattern described (not focussing on details near the slits) is one of hyperbolae, since the maxima and/or minima follow lines of constant length difference to the two foci, embodied by either the edges of the one slit, or by the two slits.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

“The quantum mechanical car," "Is really the most bizarre," "For as soon as you’re knowing," "How fast you are going," "You can’t know where you are!” https://lnkd.in/eXFkBN7Q View in LinkedIn

DIFFRACTION GRATING. “In a relative geometry setting, these lines describe how particles on average are guided through space, setting a notion of what straight propagation means on a particle level, in relation to the apertures, which are obstacles to information exchange.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

TOOTH ENAMEL. “HAP is another biomineral, which was recently reported to form mesocrystals in tooth enamel-like structures and dentin remineralization suggesting a role of mesocrystals in calcium phosphate biominerals too.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

THE MOST FAMOUS EXPERIMENT. “In the case of single- and double-slit diffraction, the symmetry of the set-up is directly observable in the lines delineating maxima and minima of the probability distribution of photons after diffraction by the slit in question.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

THE NUMBERS. “The 3000-fold fracture toughness of nacre was explained by energy dissipation by the polymeric layers.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

GREATER THAN THE SUM. “The brittle crystals can add mechanical strength and hardness to the system while the soft polymeric or amorphous phase is deformable and adds elasticity.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

GREATER STRENGTH BIOMINERALS. “Compared to a single crystal with cleavage planes, which makes it very brittle, the polycrystal-line mesocrystal structure with soft regions between the singe crystalline nanoparticle building units can make the hybrid material superiour to its constituents.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn