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Mar 24Liked by Lawrence M. Krauss

This afternoon, after reading your tribute, I downloaded, and listened to the first couple chapters of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Among the many things that struck me was Frans de Waal’s observation of how do we think we will recognize extraterrestrial life when we can’t recognize it on our own planet.

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Mar 23Liked by Lawrence M. Krauss

As a non-scientist, but interested reader, I found this to be a wonderful and heartfelt tribute to your famous fellow scientist and friend. And the fact that he was born the same year as I, raised my awareness that we don’t and can’t know when the bell will toll.

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Mar 23Liked by Lawrence M. Krauss

Who better to write this wonderful article as a tribute to this great scientist and author than Dr. Krauss who also brought us that very excellent interview with this brilliant man..thank you Dr. Krauss for agreeing to write this for this magazine..best..Richard

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Thank you for this nice memorial! But about the grape and cucumber, is it envy or is it objection to unequal treatment?

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My condolences to his loving family. I was born in May of 1948 and feel obligated to contribute.

UNIFIED THEORY OF THERMODYNAMICS

Gravity is the flow of electrical "current" attracted to the working load of protons in matter within a closed thermodynamic Galaxy of "conserved" energy & mass. Galaxies are the closed thermodynamic engines of particle pair annihilation and the particle pair production of "opposed" particle pairs of fundamental charged particles that never decay! Gravity depends on the mass of the load (resistance).

Higgs bosons are the matter conduit of the electron's potential "photon" energy toward the proton mass in atoms of matter and also the catalyst in neuclear decay that creates the particle pair production of each "Gamma" photon. Neutrinos are the insignificant mass of the electron as the fundamental, non-decaying building blocks of material creation.

Electrons are the only fundamental particle of duality consisting of an insignificant neutrino mass with a half integer spin and charge that occupies a half-million times more space in volume than the neutrino itself.

https://www.britannica.com/science/electron

Due to it's energy charge and the first law of thermodynamics, electrons can never decay and likely always existed.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/s138

Free electrons are naturally polar synchronous aligned and repell each other as Dark Energy expansion fields of electrons. When these Dark Energy expansion fields collide along their outer perimeters, they entangle as polar asynchronous fields of electrons and anti-electrons (positrons).                           https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0370157320300375#:~:text=The%20effective%20field%20theory%20of,genuine%20deviations%20from%20General%20Relativity.

Particle annihilation occurs when an electron and positron collide precisely 180° out of phase and harmonically resonate as two Gamma photons of pure energy that shoot off at the speed of light in opposite directions to each other and perpendicular to their original vectors.

https://www.britannica.com/science/annihilation

When electron/positron collisions are not 180° in alignment they will temporarily resonate as Higgs bosons and immediately decay through dissonance as an electron/positron pair. Higgs bosons keep popping in and out of existence within the Higgs boson Condensate of a spiral galaxy's closed thermodynamic system of production.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

When a third positron or electron become entangled simultaneously with the creation of a Higgs boson, quark triplets of protons and neutrons are created within the harmonic resonance of the strong nuclear force to create an atomic neuclious. Electrons are attracted to protons in the neuclious and one electron for every proton within a neuclious will occupy the orbital shells of an atom.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/atom#:~:text=An%20atom%20is%20a%20particle,known%20as%20protons%20and%20neutrons.

Galaxies are closed thermodynamic systems with a workproduct that reproduce electrons similar to biology. A spiral galaxy has a huge halo of atoms & electrons attracted to the mass in its galaxy and black hole that provides the electrical potential of the closed thermodynamic system. The universe is not only expanding, it's growing exponentially as well.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/tilt-our-stars-shape-milky-ways-halo-stars-realized#:~:text=The%20Milky%20Way's%20stellar%20halo,the%20gravity%20that%20it%20exerts.

Everything in the universe is expanding except a galaxy. All matter in a galaxy is eventually reduced to Gamma photons of energy that radiate throughout the universe and its neutrino mass from nuclear decay eventually becomes embedded in the galaxy's black hole event horizon as information. Neutrinos interact with nothing except Gamma photons, the weak nuclear force and a black hole.

Gamma photons created around a black hole will interact with these neutrinos to create particle pair production that flows from the black hole as Hawking radiation.

In particle annihilation, two opposing fermions (electron/positron) create "two" gamma photons of energy. Both Gamma photons have the potential to become "two" particle pairs of opposing particles when in the presence of nuclear Beta decay and neutrinos. (Reproduction)

https://youtu.be/qMMgsjnI1is?si=AESfUnafC7iexlN2

Conclusion: The fundamental electron is the only particle of matter and energy that can demonstrate the required attributes of a reproductive singularity of duality that harmonically replicates through annihilation and reproduction of particle pairs to expand the growth of the universe. Consciousness is sensory perceptions of observational experiences in the material environment stored in a biological or, silicon medium that can be accessed and processed for future reference....MEMORY! INTELLIGENCE is the mathematical computations of the data in this MEMORY to solve humanity's problems concerning survival of the species.

My sincere condolences for a great mind. I was born May 7, 1948 and would like to contribute a resolving theory for creation.

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