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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend is from an unusual source but caught my attention. The question posed was “Does everything in the universe connect?”. Many people think this is true but finding serious-minded articles on the topic has proved challenging. This one response by somebody claiming to be a (unpublished) quantum physicist but with very little footprint on the web seemed to me to be quite profound: is it brilliance or complex stupidity? https://lnkd.in/eGcaKNch View in LinkedIn

The bold early almond blossoms all emerge simultaneously, as blossoms must to perpetuate the species. How does that occur? View in LinkedIn

KANT’S OUTER BRAIN. “The brain does not live inside the head, even though that is its formal habitat. It reaches out to the body, and with the body it reaches out to the world. The brain is hand and the hand is brain.” (Neurologist Frank Wilson). https://lnkd.in/eeu8k7FF View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM ENTROPY. ‘Entropy S can be written in terms of a microscopic probabilistic quantity W as S=klogW, where k is the Boltzmann constant. Deeply ingrained in probabilities, S finds its true home in quantum mechanics.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

Blade Runner 2049" "“FILE CLERK: “When the lights came back, we were wiped clean.”" "FILE CLERK: “Photos, files, every bit of data, pfft. Gone. Bank records too. Heh.”" "FILE CLERK: “I mean, we had everything on drives. Everything, everything, everything. Heh.” https://books.google.es/books?id=30qxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT333&lpg=PT333&dq=bladerunner+was+about+electronic+records+being+wiped+clean&source=bl&ots=eWyy3YlZ4F&sig=ACfU3U0RjFXj44ntjRJiFsp7Ct7rrRzURw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjij6uf8c7mAhVNAGMBHQ-VBoIQ6AEwAHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=bladerunner%20was%20about%20electronic%20records%20being%20wiped%20clean&f=false View in LinkedIn

THE MANTRA. “The second law of thermodynamics stipulates that disorder as embodied by entropy always increases.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

DISTORTED PERCEPTION. “This empirical conclusion confirms George Boole's logical conclusion- that the world is objectively one thing with no parts but we subjectively perceive it to have a multitude of parts.” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

IT IS BIT. “The principle is not new. In the 19th century, the founders of statistical mechanics developed what would later be called information theory to explain the laws of thermodynamics. The key player in information theory is entropy S, the macroscopic thermodynamic quantity characterizing disorder.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM GRAVITY. “Now to a theoretical physicist searching for a working theory of quantum gravity, like a string theorist, they perform the same unifying process to mass-energy and spacetime, denying that they are two separate things and asserting that they are in fact two sides of the same coin.” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

ALL MATTER COMPUTES. “What is the difference between a computer and a black hole? This question is not a joke, but is an intriguing problem in modern physics. The reason can be traced to the fact that all physical systems are computers. Every elementary particle stores bits of data, and every time two such particles interact, those bits are transformed. Black holes are merely the most exotic example of the general principle that the universe registers and processes information.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn