Science again shows us that our current understanding of the physical world is very limited and biased.............
Many more things are possible than we can even begin to imagine.......
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| http://www.iflscience.com/physics/time-crystals-how-scientists-created-a-new-state-of-matter |
Forget what you know about crystals.............
Researchers Just Proved Crystals Can Bend,
Flipping Chemistry on Its Head
Flipping Chemistry on Its Head
"Researchers have shown that crystals can be so flexible they can be bent repeatedly and even tied up in knots, overhauling our current understanding of the structures, and challenging the very definition of a crystal.
As we learnt in school, crystals are brittle and inelastic - if you try to bend a crystal of rock salt or quartz, for example, it will break. But this new research shows that crystals can actually be made to bend, opening up a whole new class of materials that could revolutionise electronics and technology."
Read all about this EXCITING discovery at the link here:
And some additional new finding about crystals are linked here:
Time Crystals: How Scientists Created A New State Of Matter
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| http://www.iflscience.com/physics/time-crystals-how-scientists-created-a-new-state-of-matter/ |
AN EXCELLENT MUST READ!
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman uses evolutionary game theory to show that our perceptions of an independent reality must be illusions.
"As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures, tastes — are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like, a kind of internal simulation of an external reality. Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now? The true reality might be forever beyond our reach, but surely our senses give us at least an inkling of what it’s really like."
"Not so, says Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman has spent the past three decades studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and the brain, and his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction."
