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sabato 26 marzo 2022
# gst life: apropos of critical points, love (at first sight and love from liking or friendship) might be a second-order phase transition.
venerdì 12 luglio 2024
# gst: apropos of the transition of order from chaos, a universal behavior near a critical point.
lunedì 23 settembre 2019
# gst: the hypothesis of a first order phase transition (a type of abrupt phase transition) to originate black holes observed by LIGO/Virgo in binary mergers.
<< To summarize, motivated by the ~10 M* (mass similar to that of the sun) black holes observed by LIGO/Virgo in binary mergers, (AA) entertained the possibility that the quark-gluon confinement phase transition was first order due to the effect of 6 light quarks. The larger number of light quarks, compared to the standard case, pushes the transition temperature below ∼100 MeV. The first order nature of the transition significantly improves the likelihood of forming primordial black holes and its lower temperature suggests that these black holes can potentially be as heavy as ∼10 M*, compared to ∼M* for the standard QCD transition. >>
Hooman Davoudiasl. LIGO/Virgo Black Holes from a First Order Quark Confinement Phase Transition. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 101102. Sep 6, 2019. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.101102
Ingrid Fadelli. Theory proposes that LIGO/Virgo black holes originate from a first order phase transition. Sep 23, 2019. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-09-theory-ligovirgo-black-holes-phase.html
QCD = quantum chromodynamic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
sabato 6 maggio 2023
# gst: nematic order condensation and topological defects in inertial active nematics
martedì 16 luglio 2024
# gst: curiosity-driven search for novel behaviors.
lunedì 21 giugno 2021
# gst: apropos of transitions, reversing order-disorder of Janus nano particles confined in two dimensions
sabato 27 gennaio 2024
# gst: intertwining order, disorder, and hierarchy
venerdì 28 ottobre 2016
# s-gst-music: Hexacorda mollia inside acyclical order and disorder
<< A new composition for string quartet takes listeners on a journey into the weird world of soft matter >>
<< Hexacorda mollia revolves around the theme of order and disorder in soft matter—materials like liquid crystals and biological organisms that can be easily deformed by thermal fluctuations or an external stress, such as an electric or magnetic field. For many of these systems, this form of disorder is required to create ordered structures that can perform some function >>
<< Music is always going through various states of order to disorder and back again, in ways that [scientists] might recognize as phase transitions >>
Katherine Wright. Arts & Culture: A Quartet for Soft Matter. Physics 9, 92. Aug 5, 2016.
sabato 31 luglio 2021
# phys: Sir Isaac in the corner? The image of a "Time crystal", as a perpetual chaotic "out-of-equilibrium" phase; order and stability in an excited, evolving state.
giovedì 18 gennaio 2024
# gst: pseudo epileptic seizures in self-organized bistability
sabato 7 novembre 2020
# gst: apropos of nano vortices: the stabilization of skyrmions by weak higher-order exchange interactions
giovedì 29 febbraio 2024
# gst: an analogy between geometrical frustrations and nonreciprocal systems
sabato 14 ottobre 2023
# gst: emergence of chimeras driven by non-normality
giovedì 16 maggio 2024
# gst: apropos of avoidance, packing of stiff rods on ellipsoids; the effects of self-avoidance
venerdì 10 febbraio 2023
# gst: apropos of transitions, a perpetual dance between states of meta-stability and chaos (in brain).
domenica 10 aprile 2016
# n-evol: the rise of human complex (stratified) social structures
<< (..) the prevalence of (human) sacrifice increased with the degree of social stratification: it occurred in 25% of cultures with little or no stratification, 37% of those with moderately stratified societies, and 67% of those that had a pronounced hierarchy. And by mapping the evolutionary relationships between cultures, the team suggests that human sacrifice and social hierarchy co-evolved. >>
<< Human sacrifice seems to have been largely the privilege of priests or others who claimed religious authority. Watts and colleagues say that their results therefore disclose a “dark side” to the social role of religion. >>
Philip Ball. How human sacrifice propped up the social order. April 4, 2016
http://www.nature.com/news/how-human-sacrifice-propped-up-the-social-order-1.19681
Joseph Watts, Oliver Sheehan, et al. Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17159 (2016).
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature17159.html
<< The scientists (..) found that ritual sacrifice may have spurred the transition of smal, egalitarian societies to large, stratified ones. The study examined 93 traditional Austronesian cultures (speakers of a family of languages in parts of Africa, Asia and Oceania). >>
Tatiana Schlossberg. Why Some Societies Practiced Ritual Human Sacrifice. April 4, 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/science/ritual-human-sacrifice.html
more (an hypothesis of a funny approach inside modern societies): Elio Petri. La decima vittima (movie, 1965)
giovedì 18 giugno 2020
# gst: critical points seem to act behind the complex behavior of collectives.
martedì 10 marzo 2020
# gst: apropos of 'transitions', liquid-liquid transitions within a one- component system
giovedì 15 luglio 2021
# gst: apropos of turbulence, self-similarity of turbulent flows with internal and external intermittency
martedì 29 dicembre 2015
# e-web-n-soc: a Cloud centric vision for worldwide implementation ...
<< Ubiquitous sensing enabled by Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies cuts across many areas of modern day living. This offers the ability to measure, infer and understand environmental indicators, from delicate ecologies and natural resources to urban environments. The proliferation of these devices in a communicating–actuating network creates the Internet of Things (IoT), wherein sensors and actuators blend seamlessly with the environment around us, and the information is shared across platforms in order to develop a common operating picture (COP) >>
Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, et al. Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions. Future Generation Computer Systems
September 2013, Vol.29(7):1645–1660, doi:10.1016/j.future.2013.01.010
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X13000241
interessante qui l'immagine "the information is shared across platforms in order to develop a common operating picture (COP)"; in pratica con la transizione gia' in atto ( cfr: << as we move from www (static pages web) to web2 (social networking web) to web3 (ubiquitous computing web) >>) il web puo' definitivamente "uscire dalle reti virtuali" per sconfinare e diffondersi (registrare, controllare, in tempo reale, in modalita' locale o altrove ...) all'intorno (e anche all'interno) di qualsivoglia sistema biologico ...