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Seasonal plate of horse chestnuts, acorns and leaves. You may or may not have used these inedible chestnut fruit to play the common English game of Conkers. View in LinkedIn

THE GROUP MIND. “The anthill wakes up. As we add more agents and intelligence to the web, we approach the old science-fictional scenario of having the internet “wake up.” Could this be a good thing? How might we bring it about? Or has it already happened?” (Rudy Rucker). https://lnkd.in/dm97KwxC View in LinkedIn

ACTION AND REACTION. “According to Newtons third law, the change in momentum of the particles being pushed towards the exhaust will generate an equal impulse on the magnetic field in the opposite direction which will in turn be imparted on the entire engine and any vessel connected to the engine.” https://lnkd.in/dtWtzEsU View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER ENGINE. “One proposed method for utilizing antimatter as a fuel source is the antimatter beam core engine. The beam core design generates a thrust by redirecting charged particles from an antiproton-proton annihilation through an exhaust using a magnetic field.” https://lnkd.in/dtWtzEsU View in LinkedIn

HIGH VALUE ANTIMATTER FUEL. “A specific impulse of (2.49 ± 0.08) × 10(6) s was determined. This value is significantly higher than specific impulses of current chemical rocket fuels which range from 240 - 400 s.” https://lnkd.in/dtWtzEsU View in LinkedIn

SIMULATED FUEL. “By redirecting the charged particles through an exhaust using a non-uniform magnetic field, an impulse can be generated capable of supplying thrust to an engine. Using the Geant 4 simulation toolkit developed by CERN, we simulate this process using a beam core engine design.” https://lnkd.in/dtWtzEsU View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER FUEL. “An exciting prospect is the use of antimatter as a fuel source due to its ability to convert mass energy to kinetic energy. Upon annihilation of antimatter with matter, tremendous amounts of energy are carried away by charged and neutral particles.” https://lnkd.in/dtWtzEsU View in LinkedIn

ALTERNATIVE. “A direct measurement of the gravitational acceleration of antimatter has the potential to show that we live in a “Dirac-Milne” Universe, which could explain cosmological observations without the need for dark matter, dark energy, inflation, or missing antimatter. Such a measurement would also be sensitive to the possible existence of a fifth force.” https://lnkd.in/df5VU2Ug View in LinkedIn

Door to the Girona cathedral garden. View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this beautiful story of Pasteur’s chirality experiments of 1848 extending to Yang’s Nobel Prize in 1957. But the story is much more intricate than this and a full documentation of the history of chiral investigations is to be found in the reference below. Humanity has always been aesthetically interested in symmetry, and when scientists can tinker with such objects, there is undoubted joy to be had. https://lnkd.in/dV8y8JCn View in LinkedIn