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TYING IT TOGETHER. “Then we show that gravitational thermodynamics/ entropic gravity arguments, generalized to a spacetime (like ours) with dark energy imitating a (positive) cosmological constant, lead to a dark matter model which relates dark energy, dark matter, and ordinary (baryonic) matter and is remarkably consistent with observations at both the galactic and cluster scales.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

The annual ritual of the triumph of hope over experience, set to the powerful beat of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. View in LinkedIn

AQUEOUS RECRYSTALLIZATION. “Clay minerals are characterized by tetrahedral sheets occupied by Si and subordinately Al and Fe3+. These sheets join together along the surfaces with different combinations, giving rise to different layers, which in turn join to form different clay minerals. In the various clay minerals, the layers have different layer charges as a function of the substitution of higher charge cations with cations with lower charges (e.g., replacement of Si4+ with Al3+ in tetrahedral sheets).” https://lnkd.in/gZNkNQEB View in LinkedIn

TOO MUCH NOISE. “But when the proper averaging is carried out (even if there is such a formalism), now it appears (at least to this author) that the fluctuations are perhaps too small to be detectable with the currently available experimental and observational techniques. Nevertheless, let us briefly discuss several of the proposals to detect spacetime foam.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

MEASURING FOAM. “There have been numerous proposals to detect spacetime foam, involving astronomical high-energy gamma ray observations of distant gamma-ray bursts and distant quasars, gravity-wave interferometers and atom interferometers and so forth.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

THE HEART OF EVERYTHING. “If so, then it follows that thermodynamics, Einstein’s “meta-theory”, may hold the key to formulating as well as understanding the ultimate physical laws; and reigning supreme will be its protagonist—entropy.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

CORE DERIVATION. “And if we also take seriously the recent proposal that spacetime geometry/gravitation may simply be an emergent phenomenon from quantum entanglements, as implied by the conjecture ER = EPR, we can certainly entertain the idea that even quantum mechanics could be related to thermodynamics in a deep and unfathomable way.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

SUPER-ORGANISM. “Here, the framework showed that the centre of mass can predict its own dynamics better than what can be explained from the behaviour of individual birds.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

MURMURINGS. “Another demonstration of the power of the framework and practical criteria was carried out in a computational model of flocking birds, another often-cited example of emergent behaviour whereby the flock as a whole arises from the interactions between individuals.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

CAUSAL DECOUPLING. “The ΦID frame-work (in particular, practical criteria discussed in the previous section) provided a quantitative validation that particles have causally emergent properties, in line with widespread intuition, and further analyses suggested that they may be causally decoupled with respect to their substrate.” (ΦID = Integrated Information Decomposition). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn