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At the center of the Lagoon Nebula, imaged by Hubble in 2018, a young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds, carving shapes out of the surrounding gas and dust: https://lnkd.in/eS8tB3Bp https://lnkd.in/e5MaXFXg View in LinkedIn

ANIMATED UNIVERSE. “Even a photon has some degree of consciousness. The idea is not that photons are intelligent or thinking. [...] But the thought is maybe photons might have some element of raw, subjective feeling, some primitive precursor to consciousness.” (Chalmers 2014). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03633-1_14 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINOS. “Despite this, they are ubiquitous: your average coffee mug contains around 100,000 of the ‘cold’ neutrinos that permeate the Universe, and many times more produced by the Sun.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

TOOL. “Leptonic CP violation is elusive, but can be searched for using neutrinos. These fundamental particles are remarkably reluctant to interact with ordinary matter, making them very hard to detect. They are the least understood known particle.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATION. “The discovery of substantial leptonic CP violation would be groundbreaking. Its observation, together with evidence that a quantity known as lepton number has been violated (that is, not conserved), would provide strong circumstantial evidence for leptogenesis as the origin of the matter–antimatter imbalance.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

INTENTIONAL ERRORS. “This article focuses on recent demonstrations of graphene-based advanced electronics which operation mechanisms rely on imperfections in graphene. Examples of imperfections in graphene include dopants, stacking mismatch, atomic-level defects.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

THE BEGINNING. “In models introduced to explain the observed neutrino masses, hypothetical heavy partners to neutrinos would have been copiously present in the early Universe and subsequently decayed. In the presence of CP violation, these decays could have generated the observed matter–antimatter asymmetry.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

ACCIDENTAL ERRORS. “Even if perfect graphene is able to be manufactured, subsequent integration or assembly processes into functional computing systems continues to create imperfections in graphene.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

ASYMMETRY ORIGIN. “How did this tiny excess arise from an initial Universe that was perfectly symmetrical? The amount of CP violation observed in quarks is not enough to cause it, so scientists have looked at leptonic CP violation in a well-studied mechanism called leptogenesis.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the moiré interference caused by stacks of imperfect graphene and their tremendous applications. Carbon is now threatening to augment or displace silicone electronics. It is no accident that the strange properties of this atom resulted in carbon-based life. View in LinkedIn