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The Optics of Youth and Potential

For a person of youth, what you see is their unlimited potential, their bright future and the boundless possibilities that life holds. There is an exaggerated estimation of their aptitudes. We tend to draw a straight line from their birth to youth, and extrapolate the same trajectory indefinitely into the future. The lens of youth […]

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Energy, Atoms, Life & Batteries

In the beginning was energy.  Maybe it was matter, or something else.  For simplicity, let’s assume we started with energy.  The universe experienced the Big Bang.  Energy is converted into matter, or at least a lot of it was.  Energy becomes matter.  Energy is matter and matter is energy.  E=MC2, So the science goes. The […]