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SUBJECT MATTER. “In this work we studied possible formation of exotic molecules based on the interaction of antihydrogen with hydrogen, deuterium and tritium atoms.” Experimentally challenging. https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

A BIT ALIVE. “Taken together, these analyses provide a conceptual “lifeness space” that makes it possible to move away from a categorical construal of life by empirically assessing the relative lifeness of more-or-less alive entities.” Cardinal heresy alert! Prepare the burning stakes! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

“CONSEQUENCES of the Matter-Antimatter Coexistence. Compounds composed of atoms and antiatoms could lead to the discovery of a new field to be referred to as matter-antimatter Chemistry and better understanding of chemical bonds.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

NUANCED QUALIA. “While aligning with intuitions—for instance about viruses being less alive than bacteria—these quantitative results also reveal differential degrees of performance that have so far remained elusive or overlooked.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

NOT JUST ANNIHILATION. “Thus, apart from direct annihilation channels, particle-antiparticle interactions at low energies are also accompanied with the formation of exotic atomic structures and exotic molecular compounds.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

CRITERIA. “Eight major clusters of properties were identified together with their relative relevance for each target entity (two that relate to metabolism and catalysis, one to genetics, one to evolvability, one to structure, and—rather unexpectedly—three that concern interactions with the environment broadly construed).” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION OF LIFE. “However the real difficulty lays elsewhere: in the surprising diversity of borderline cases—giant viruses, sterile organisms, extreme microsymbionts, etc.—and disputes that follow their categorization as alive or not.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

DEGREES OF LIFELESSNESS. “Building on these dimensions-related differences, we also computed a single value of overall lifeness for each more-or-less-alive entity, thereby providing an empirically-founded quantification of degrees of lifeness.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

PROPERTY CLUSTERS. “They also show how different degrees of overall lifeness can be achieved in different ways. This multidimensional way of mapping borderline entities exemplifies the need of reformulating questions of the type “Is X alive?” into questions of the type “What is the lifeness of X?”. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

ANALYSIS. “We hence defined an 8-dimensional “lifeness space” on the basis of these property clusters and used semantic proximity as a metric for assessing the relative positioning of the target entities along these dimensions. These findings corroborate the intuition that different entities perform differently along each lifeness dimension.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn