Apologia: Upon review, what follows is more than I intended when I began compiling it. My first thought was simply to compile links to a few news items that echoed the ideas I've been developing in this collection of stories I've written, and perhaps suggest some follow-up. Soon I had more than a few, so I began labeling them alphabetically in groups of ten. (The sequence is not alphabetical. It remains chronological with their addition.) Now I have run through the entire alphabet and more, so there are well over 200 entries. My longest chapter ever! Feel free to browse, but don't feel obliged to absorb them all. Just please be impressed, as I am, at how potentially realistic my flights of fancy have been.
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Right brain and left brain, intuition and logic: intuition derives from memory, logic requires extrapolation from memory data. Here are some links to memory data offered by other brains, which may inspire useful extrapolations.
Asimov: The Gods Themselves, p74 Schiller, 1800: "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." p118 wondering why I wonder (Tritt & Feynman). p255 nothing between one and infinity makes sense as an absolute limit. p270 oscillating universe eliminated as a possibility? (See later note on optical-gravity.)
Rupert Sheldrake (who my Drake character is based on) has reprised his thinking recently in these talks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWbIVlnmNM
https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/morphic-resonance?vgo_ee=yrsHuVbbhr2yelcFbbzxe4vy7T5YEJ8ohjC9vauJg30%3D
This from James Lovelock, who originated the Gaia concept:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/beware-gaia-theory-climate-crisis-earth
Here's another potentially quotable link:
https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-have-a-mysterious-quantum-sense-and-scientists-have-seen-it-in-action
And more:
"There is something about wavelets that makes them the 'right' way to look at data," and that's true no matter what kind of data it is.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-wavelets-allow-researchers-to-transform-and-understand-data-20211013/
fermions and bosons(exclusion v condensates)
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/7-states-of-matter/
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/graphene-advances-electronics/
(Also see end links to power harvesting and new battery designs.}
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-quantum-mechanics-reveal-that-life-is-but-a-dream/
https://libertariannews.org/2016/07/12/randell-l-mills-a-living-legend-greater-than-einstein-and-tesla-combined/
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https://www.space.com/black-holes-holographic-projection-quantum-computing-study
https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/ EFT (effective field theory) physics and gravity physics, when combined, limit the unrealistic predictions of EFT that occur when a UV boundary is approached. This appears to be a lot like the way quantum effects corrected the problem of classical continuity when calculating energies. It also involves a hologram-like effect that makes available energy states proportional to the surface area rather than the volume.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolution-hacked-its-way-to-intelligence-from-the-bottom-up
Evolution, it seems, doesn't come up with answers so much as generate flexible problem-solving agents that can rise to new challenges and figure things out on their own.
https://brilliantlightpower.com/pdf/Analytical_Presentation.pdf: Hydrino H2(1/4) Gas, released from heating FeOOH:H2(1/4),
also Fe2O3:H2(1/4), thermally released GaOOH:H2(1/4).
GaOOH:H2(1/4) was formed by dissolving Ga2O3 collected from a hydrino reaction run in the Sun Cell® in 4M aqueous KOH, allowing fibers to grow, and float to the surface where they were collected by filtration.(H2(1/4) in KCl matrix (KCl getter exposed to hydrino gas)
Multimer clusters of getter compounds with di-hydrogen as part of the structure, M:H2 (M = KOH or K2CO3) such as K+(H2:K2CO3)n and
K+(H2:KOH)n consistent with H2(1/p) as a complex in the structure were observed. These clusters were not observed in controls comprising the matrix exposed to H2.
Inorganic Hydrino Complex Behaves as an Organic Molecule in Chromatographic Analysis with an Aqueous Solution and an Organic Column Packing.
Isolation and Identification of Molecular Hydrino Gas Directly from SunCell®Gas Using a Cryopump.
