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PROCESS ONTOLOGY. “Our argument in this essay has been that process ontology is far more concordant with the understanding of the living world provided by contemporary biology than its substantialist rival. The more we learn about life, the more necessary a process perspective becomes. This is particularly the case with regard to the increasing realization of the omnipresence of symbiosis, which directly challenges deeply entrenched substantialist assumptions about the living world. Thus the empirical findings of biology are inexorably driving us towards processualism, even if it is less intuitive than substantialism.” https://lnkd.in/dE_ZD9q View in LinkedIn

LIGHTNING ENERGY. "The production of X-rays by a bolt of lightning was theoretically predicted as early as 1925 but no evidence was found until 2001/2000. The cause of the X-ray emissions is still a matter for research, as the temperature of lightning is too low to account for the X-rays observed.” https://lnkd.in/dYPiEzS View in LinkedIn

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LIGHTNING. "On Earth, the lightning frequency is approximately 40–50 times a second or nearly 1.4 billion flashes per year and the average duration is 0.2 seconds made up from a number of much shorter flashes (strokes) of around 30 microseconds." https://lnkd.in/dYPiEzS View in LinkedIn

COSMIC WEATHER. “For decades, scientists have argued over whether there is a link between cosmic rays and cloud cover, which in turn could affect climate. Now two atmospheric physicists in the UK have discovered that global atmospheric electricity – which itself is altered by cosmic rays, space weather and El Niño – affects the base height of certain types of clouds.” https://lnkd.in/dVCdgFH View in LinkedIn

HIGH ENERGY PARTICLES. “There are three principal sources of high-energy particles which cause radiolysis: Radon isotopes, cosmic rays and terrestrial gamma radiation. The partitioning between the sources varies vertically. Near the surface, ionisation from turbulent transport of radon and other radioactive isotopes is important, together with gamma radiation from isotopes below the surface. Ionisation from cosmic rays is always present, comprising about 20% of the ionisation at the surface.” https://lnkd.in/dmetfSb View in LinkedIn

“ION-PAIRS are continually produced in the atmosphere by radiolysis of air molecules. The ions produced are rarely single species but clusters of water molecules around a central ion. Typical atmospheric ion concentrations in unpolluted air and fine weather are about 500 ions.cm(-3).” https://lnkd.in/dmetfSb View in LinkedIn

Mushroom abundance is upon us. View in LinkedIn