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You cannot make it up. On the edge of St Daniel on Girona’s outskirts. View in LinkedIn

OBSERVERS CREATING A UNIVERSE. “If Wheeler was right that we decide the physical laws, by our very choices as observers of the universe, then, due to their important and bold contributions to physics, he and his students are responsible for many preposterous features of our universe.” A phenomenal essay. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-12946-4_5 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this single weekend on biosemiotics, and a delightful article that grasps the importance of communication and translation in biology, and that this is critical for survival, and that it is not a uniquely human quality. Our self-absorption in anthropocentric thinking has blinded us to what is sitting in plain sight; we are products of nature and share many qualities, to varying degrees, with many other creatures. https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

FIRST MILESTONE. “In 1995, CERN announced that it had successfully brought into existence nine hot antihydrogen atoms.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

ENERGY LIMITS. “In addition to antibaryons, anti-nuclei consisting of multiple bound antiprotons and antineutrons have been created. These are typically produced at energies far too high to form antimatter atoms (with bound positrons in place of electrons).” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

CHARACTERISTICS. “An antiproton consists of two up antiquarks and one down antiquark. The properties of the antiproton that have been measured all match the corresponding properties of the proton, with the exception of the antiproton having opposite electric charge and magnetic moment from the proton.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

THE ANTIPROTON. “The existence of the antiproton was experimentally confirmed in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for which they were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER STARS. “There is an ongoing search for larger antimatter nuclei, such as antihelium nuclei (that is, anti-alpha particles), in cosmic rays. The detection of natural antihelium could imply the existence of large antimatter structures such as an antistar.” (A real conceptual problem). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

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BOTH THE DRIVER AND THE OUTCOME. “An ecosystem does not really have a ‘functional’ structure because it does not have a ‘function’. Selection is purely on the basis of individual survival and not ecosystem performance. This implies that ‘diversity’ is an important feature of complex, evolutionary systems. It is both the ‘driver’ of evolution and also the outcome.”" " https://lnkd.in/d8jcRAyX View in LinkedIn