Year: 2022

JOHN CAGE’S ‘FOUND ART’. “In the ’70’s, with inspirations like Thoreau and Joyce, Cage took literary texts and transformed them into music. “Roratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegan’s Wake” (1979), was an outline for re-envisioning any work of literature as music. With a dynamic optimism, he sensed music everywhere, to be made from anything.” https://lnkd.in/dGWvVhiN View in LinkedIn

The St Narcis Fair of Girona is completely mediaeval in feel with processions following agnostic figures and revelling until the very early hours for days on end. View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY. “In the models with explicit C and CP violation, the baryon asymmetry is a universal constant over the whole universe.” (CP violation = charge conjugation parity symmetry). https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

GIANT ANTIMATTER ISLANDS. “If the charge symmetry is broken spontaneously, then domains of matter and antimatter may exist but the size of domains is expected to be cosmologically large, at the Gigaparsec level. Therefore, the accepted faith is that if even macroscopically large objects or regions consisting of antimatter exist, they should be far away from us at the edge of the universe or at least at distances beyond 10 Mpc.” https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

NEARBY ISLANDS. “On the other hand, about a quarter of century ago, a physical mechanism was suggested leading to the possible formation of compact antistars over normal matter-dominated background.” https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

DENSE BARYON ISLANDS. “According to the proposed scenario, the baryogenesis in the bulk of the universe proceeded in the usual way giving rise to the observed small baryon asymmetry, while in a small volume part of the universe, bubbles with a very high baryonic number (called HBB) might be created.” https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

CONSEQUENCES. “The model allows for the formation of HBBs with both signs of the baryon asymmetry, positive (matter) and negative (antimatter).” (HBB = high baryonic number). https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. “HBBs with size comparable to the cosmological horizon at the QCD (quantum chromodynamics) phase transition at ∼ 100 MeV mostly give rise to primordial black holes (PBHs) which could make a sizeable fraction (if not all) of cosmological dark matter.” (HBB = high baryonic number). " https://lnkd.in/d_CXigJS View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION AS FIFTH FORM OF MATTER. “These radical theories are based on the principle that information is physical, the information is registered by physical systems, and all physical systems can register information.” A truly exceptional paper by Melvin M. Vopsona, of the School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Portsmouth, UK. https://lnkd.in/dsBdyta7 View in LinkedIn

Large fortified area above Girona, where the tower is actually an air vent presumably leading to a maze of tunnels. View in LinkedIn