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The Living Force
Thank you all a lot for this "reversed" session, where Ark starts off than"ends off".
In reading it , there are two things (now with the last post of Bastian, maybe three) coming in surface.
the first thing is this Quantum Quirks: Quantum Quirks -- Sott.net
The second and maybe the third one is this article from Sott:
Plus some links:
Also this one:
And this ones too:
The janus point's comment: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1601/1601.02790.pdf
In reading it , there are two things (now with the last post of Bastian, maybe three) coming in surface.
the first thing is this Quantum Quirks: Quantum Quirks -- Sott.net
The second and maybe the third one is this article from Sott:
Antimatter mysteries 1: Where is all the antimatter? -- Sott.netGalaxies, like Abell 1689, should not exist at all according to the standard model of physics.
Plus some links:
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Wikipedia and AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space | CERNThe Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, also designated AMS-02, is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). The module is a detector that measures antimatter in cosmic rays, this information is needed to understand the formation of the Universe and search for evidence of dark matter.
“As the most precise measurement of the cosmic ray positron flux to date, these results show clearly the power and capabilities of the AMS detector,” said AMS spokesperson, Samuel Ting. “Over the coming months, AMS will be able to tell us conclusively whether these positrons are a signal for dark matter, or whether they have some other origin.”
Also this one:
Modified Newtonian dynamics
Modified Newtonian dynamics - Wikipedia(MOND) is a theory that proposes a modification of Newton's laws to account for observed properties of galaxies.
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MOND is an example of a class of theories known as modified gravity, and is an alternative to the hypothesis that the dynamics of galaxies are determined by massive, invisible dark matter halos. Since Milgrom's original proposal, MOND has successfully predicted a variety of galactic phenomena that are difficult to understand from a dark matter perspective.[2][3] However, MOND and its generalisations do not adequately account for observed properties of galaxy clusters, and no satisfactory cosmological model has been constructed from the theory.
And this ones too:
Scientists Propose a 'Mirror Universe' Where Time Moves BackwardsBasically, if we were looking at the mirror universe, we would see time moving from the future to the past, but from the perspective of that universe, it would look like our time was moving backwards, not forwards, the researchers suggest.
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They found that, thanks to gravity, the particles ended up with the smallest amount of distance between each other - which they called the Janus point. The particles would then expand back outwards in different directions, signifying how time could move forwards and backwards in an actual multiverse.
"When the particles then expand outwards, they do so in two different temporal directions," Goldhill writes for Quartz. "Barbour and his colleagues created a simplified 1,000 particle point model of the Universe showing this dual expansion, with gravity creating structure in both directions."
"It’s the simplest thing," Barbour says of his research. "You start at that central Janus point where the motion is chaotic - that’s like the Greek notion of primordial chaos - but then in both directions you get this structure forming. If the theory is right, then there’s another universe on the other side of the Big Bang in which the direction of experience of time is opposite to ours."
The janus point's comment: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1601/1601.02790.pdf
Scientists Show Human Consciousness Could Be a Side Effect of 'Entropy'It's impressive enough that our human brains are made up of the same 'star stuff' that forms the Universe, but new research suggests that this might not be the only thing the two have in common.
Just like the Universe, our brains might be programmed to maximise disorder - similar to the principle of entropy - and our consciousness could simply be a side effect.
The quest to understand human consciousness - our ability to be aware of ourselves and our surroundings - has been going on for centuries. Although consciousness is a crucial part of being human, researchers still don't truly understand where it comes from, and why we have it.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00821.pdfConclusions and conjectures on the structure of brain-behaviour-environment
It is tempting to speculate, based on these results and the conclusions of a previous study that there
could be a universal logic ruling the evolution of natural phenomena — biological and nonbiological—
and the nervous system in particular: patterns emerge from a central theme captured by maximising
information exchange. Because, in the final analysis, all exchange of information implies exchange
of energy, natural phenomena tend towards the most probable distribution of energy, and thus the
interactions among system constituents tends to be maximized.
Because the brain functions to maintain a predictive model of the environment (the reason the
brain evolved is to model the environment, after all), then perhaps the brain’s global configuration
has to “copy” what is out there: and out there energy distributes in all possible microstates (second
principle of thermodynamics). Then to process such variability in nature, the nervous system should
have same structure, and the result is the ‘inverted U’ that has appeared in our analysis and has
been theoretically proposed in other publications, the top of the curve representing more possible
combinations to handle information/energy exchanges. On the other hand, in the extremes of this
curve we find fewer microstates, thus these are not optimal situations to process the many microstates
in the environment. The key then is not to reach the maximum number of units interacting (which
would be all-to-all connections and thus only one possible microstate), but rather the largest possible
number of configurations allowed by the constraints. In a similar fashion, it has been argued that
the brain needs to show criticality because natural phenomena possess critical dynamics [36]. Then,
perchance, consciousness can be considered as an emergent property of the organization of the embodied
nervous system submerged in an environment, consequence of the most probable distribution of energy
(information exchange) in the brain. In this regard, consciousness (like biochemistry) may represent
thus an optimal channel for accessing sources of (free) energy