#Strontium titanate

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Adaptive ferroelectric materials show promise for energy-efficient supercomputing

Researchers have revealed an adaptive response with a ferroelectric device, which responds to light pulses in a way that resembles the plasticity of neural networks. This behavior could find application in energy-efficient microelectronics. "Today's supercomputers and data centers demand many megawatts of power," said Haidan Wen, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. "One challenge is to find materials for more energy-efficient microelectronics. A promising candidate is a ferroelectric material that can be used for artificial neural networks as a component in energy-efficient microelectronics." Ferroelectric materials can be found in different kinds of information processing devices, such as computer memory, transistors, sensors and actuators. Argonne researchers report surprising adaptive behavior in a ferroelectric material that can evolve step-by-step to a desired end, depending on the number of photons from light pulses striking the material. Working alongside Argonne researchers were scientists from Rice University, Pennsylvania State University and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Elden Ring Elemental Allegory Hypothesis

So there's a question that has been on my mind for a while: does this Buckler shield look like a Helium atom?

There is an episode of Stargate SG-1 called "The Torment of Tantalus". A researcher named Ernest Littlefield has been stranded alone on a alien planet for over 50 years since 1945. The planet was called Heliopolis and was at one point the centre of power for Ra - a parasitic snake-like alien that lived inside a human host and presented himself as a god to the people of Earth. But long before this the planet was once the meeting place of 4 alien groups who communicated using the universal language - atoms.

I think it possible that one of the more subtle layers of Elden Ring is in using references to the periodic table of the elements to fill in some gaps in knowledge.

Summation of Sets - counting Rivets and Gemstones

For reasons that will become apparent later, the Buckler Shield is actually not the best example to start with because it is too generic and represents a few too many possibilities. Two better examples would be the Riveted Shield and Moon of Nokstella as both examples could be construed as referencing the moon (Selene):

Riveted Wooden Shield: Outer ring: 12 electrons - magnesium (Mg) Inner detail: 22 electrons - titanium (Ti) Combined: 34 electrons - selenium (Se)

Moon of Nokstella: Ring of small gems: 34 electrons - selenium (Se) Gems in settings: 4 electrons - beryllium (Be) Combined: 38 electrons - strontium (Sr)

I had an entire other post breaking down the elements of the Moon of Nokstella. But here I will run through the Riveted Wooden Shield.

The Riveted Wooden Shield is starting equipment for the Warrior class and the image upon it is of a sword and tree. The most likely reading of this is that the "tree" is represented as a conifer above ground and it's root system below ground, and the sword bisects these horizontally. The odd curvature of lines above and below the sword tip suggests also that the sword pierces a round object - perhaps an eye or full moon. The aesthetic of the Warrior implies a connection with the Blind Swordsman who long ago sealed the God of Rot, and indeed the head piece of this set covers and blinds the right eye (from the vantage of someone looking at the character). The right eye is associated with the eye of Horus and the moon in contrast to the left eye being the eye of Ra and the sun.

Magnesium, Titanium, and Selenium are all elements with connection to Greece. Selenium is named for Selene, the Ancient Greek word for the moon. Being the synthesis of inner and outer rivets this indicates the end product of the Blue Dancer/Blind Swordsman's actions - creation of a moon. As discussed further with the Moon of Nokstella, I believe this to be creation of the black moon or dark moon as selenium is a dark silvery metal.

Titanium is named similarly for the Greek Titans. The Titans were the pre-Olympian gods such as Gaia (earth), her son and husband Uranus (sky), their 6 male children, and 6 female children. The most well know titan is Cronus, the leader of the Titans who castrated and overthrew his father Uranus to become the god associated with the sky and the planet Saturn. The eldest of the Olympians are offspring of Cronus and Rhea: Hestia (Vesta - Virgin goddess of the hearth), Demeter (Ceres/Isis), Hera (Juno), Poseidon (Neptune), and Zeus (Jupiter). Some other Titans of note are the titan Hyperion and titaness Theia whose offspring were Helios (sun), Selene (moon) and Eos (dawn). And also Iapetus, father of the Titans Atlas (who holds up the celestial spheres (stars) on his shoulders) and Prometheus (who brought fire to man).

The name of elemental magnesium "comes from Magnesia, a district of Thessaly (Greece) where the mineral magnesia alba was first found". The word "magnet" has a similar origin as natural lodestones were also found in Magnesia. In the 1st or 2nd century BC there was an astronomer and thaumaturge named Aglaonice of Thessaly who was best known as a sorceress able to 'make the moon disappear from the sky'. It is the speculation of modern astronomers that this means that she could predict the general timeframe when a lunar eclipse would occur.

"Plutarch wrote that she was "thoroughly acquainted with the periods of the full moon when it is subject to eclipse, and, knowing beforehand the time when the moon was due to be overtaken by the earth's shadow, imposed upon the women, and made them all believe that she was drawing down the moon." Peter Bicknell notes that in most lunar eclipses the Moon does not disappear completely, but simply takes on a reddish hue. The ancient sources which discuss Aglaonice do not describe such a change of colour and there is no suggestion that she failed to convince observers that she was able to draw down the Moon. Bicknell speculates that in the first and second centuries BC there was a period in which the Moon appeared significantly less bright during the lunar eclipse due to variations in solar activity, and this might explain this apparent inconsistency." - Wikipedia article on Aglaonice

Overall, the point is that the shield can be read as indicating a time when the old Titans were supplanted by their offspring and thrown under the earth. This coincided with the old concept of the moon being replaced with a new one, which may be characterized as a lunar eclipse. Note that the landscape of the Lands Between is built upon the bodies of giants, and those giants are of a size to operate the Giant's Forge. And in agreement with the ancient mythic nature of this reading the Warrior is the oldest of all Tarnished - as the selection screen indicates "they were all warriors once".

Speculation on the Buckler Shield

Helium (He) would actually tie in quite nicely with the themes of Elden Ring. Its name is derived from "Helios" the Greek god of the sun, as the element was first observed via 7-prism electromagnetic spectroscopy instruments aimed at the sun. The first recorded observation of helium occurred during an eclipse on 18 August 1868 (also called "The King of Siam's Eclipse") by French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen. But it was not identified as a new element until a second astronomer - Norman Lokyer - observed the same spectral reading from England in October 1868 and confirmed the discovery with the help of chemist Edward Frankland.

Helium is the only element to have been first discovered in outer space before being found on earth and is very abundant in both the sun and the planet Jupiter in our solar system. It was later found on earth and isolated by chemist William Ramsay in 1895. Ramsay was also known for discovering Neon, Argon, Krypton and Xenon, and for isolating and characterizing Radon in 1910. Helium has many industrial applications such as the cooling of superconducting magnets, arc welding, growing crystals for silicon wafers and as a safer gas for lifting airships than the flammable hydrogen gas. It is generated through alpha particle decay of radioactive elements.

Buckler

A small metal roundshield. The bump in the center enables parrying techniques. A well-timed parry can break an enemy's stance, allowing a critical hit. Best suited for those prepared to take the risk to reap their reward.

The Buckler is starting equipment for the bandit class, or sold by Gatekeeper Gostoc. And based on this available information there is nothing that immediately stands out as relating to the shield being connected to helium. Although helium does have a fairly stable nucleus relative to its neighbours hydrogen and lithium, it is not what it is known for, and it is certainly not a metal. The description of the bump in the centre enabling parrying brings to mind the way that the nuclei of atoms will prefer to repel each other, thus performing nuclear fusion requires particles to be accelerated towards each other at very high speeds. Californium and Berkelium have been produced by bombarding Curium with alpha particles, Mendelevium is produced by bombarding Einsteinium with alpha particles.

There is a secondary explanation that fits - which is actually the first one that I had thought of. There is a theme in Elden Ring of shells. Turtles have shells that are symbolic of protecting secrets, snakes have shells (which don't match their species), the sorcerers have trays of shells sitting in their rises. One of the successful models of the atom is to arrange the electrons in shells, where the valence electrons in the outermost shell are available for bonding. It was coincidentally Edward Frankland again who introduced the concept of valence in the same year as the discovery of helium.

The Buckler is made of an unspecified metal, and as it happens there are many elements which are found with 2 valence electrons in their outer shell. These include Zinc (Zn), Iron (Fe), Nickel (Ni), Cobalt (Co), Yttrium (Y), Vanadium (V), Scandium (Sc), Technetium (Tc), Cadmium (Cd), Lutetium (Lu), Hafnium (Hf), Tantalum (Ta), Tungsten (W), Rhenium (Re), Osmium (Os), Iridium (Ir), Mercury (Hg). As well as the entire alkaline earth metal group of Beryllium (Be), Magnesium (Mg), Calcium (Ca), Strontium (Sr), Barium (Ba), and Radium (Ra). Whittled down the periodic table to a mere 23 or so entries of interest - not bad! And at least 10 of these (in bold) were already thought by me to be elements of interest.

And by the traces of rust on the shield the "metal" in question could be simply iron. Iron has two electrons in the outer shell and is the heaviest element produced by the sun with nuclear fusion. Iron represents a transition point - for lighter elements energy is produced by nuclear fusion and for heavier elements energy is produced by nuclear fission. Although the Earth's core is largely composed of iron, most available elemental iron in the earth's crust originated from meteorites.

This post is just an introduction to the kinds of things that I'm thinking about, really. Assuming the convention that rivets represent electrons there are so many other shields to sift through and cross reference with the other known information to confirm a real pattern. Other possible elemental references I have noticed: the variety of flame colours found in game being reminiscent of the colours produced in burning metals for flame tests; characters whose names or story themes represent mythological figures who have elements named for them; characters whose names contain a syllable that is a standard abbreviation for an element; and known types of metals incorporated in descriptions and visuals like gold, silver, copper, bronze, brass, iron, steel, etc.

And also, the buckler shield may be present in Elden Ring but it originated at least as early as Dark Souls. So that begs the question of how long ago could FromSoft have started playing with elemental metaphor go that uses the true atomic elements of the periodic table as inspiration lurking beneath an alchemical framing device.

[imamammarullah]

Alhamdulillah ala kulli hal, artikel penelitian kami dengan judul:

Crystallite size and phase purity in Pb1-xSrxTiO3 ferroelectric perovskites for biomedical applications via controlled sintering

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Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies, @tandfresearch (Q2 Scopus dan ESCI Web of Science)

Lead strontium titanate (Pb1-xSrx)TiO3, atau disingkat PST, adalah bahan perovskit ferroelectric yang memiliki sifat dapat diatur, seperti suhu Curie, polaritas spontan, dan kapasitas dielektrik yang tinggi. Sifat-sifat ini membuatnya sangat cocok untuk berbagai aplikasi di bidang biomedis, seperti sensor biologis, pencitraan medis, dan terapi berbasis cahaya.

Penelitian ini mempelajari bagaimana pengaruh suhu sintering (pemanasan) yang berbeda terhadap ukuran kristal dan kemurnian fase PST. Tujuannya adalah untuk mengoptimalkan kinerja PST agar lebih efektif dalam perangkat medis. Bahan baku berupa serbuk PbCO3, SrCO3, dan TiO2 dihaluskan melalui proses ball milling selama 58 jam, kemudian dipanaskan pada suhu antara 500°C hingga 1100°C. Ukuran partikel dan perubahan fase kristal PST kemudian dianalisis menggunakan teknik difraksi laser dan sinar-X.

Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa suhu sintering yang lebih tinggi membantu meningkatkan komposisi fase PST, mengurangi kotoran, dan memperbesar ukuran kristal. Pertumbuhan kristal paling besar terjadi pada suhu 900°C, sedangkan kemurnian fase dan ukuran kristal optimal (91,5 nm) dicapai pada suhu 1100°C, menghasilkan 100% fase tunggal PST. Temuan ini menunjukkan bahwa pengaturan suhu pemanasan sangat penting untuk mendapatkan sifat-sifat terbaik dari PST, menjadikannya lebih cocok untuk aplikasi dalam perangkat elektronik dan mikroelektronik medis. Dengan pengaturan suhu sintering yang tepat, bahan perovskit seperti PST memiliki potensi besar untuk digunakan dalam teknologi diagnostik dan terapi medis.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21870764.2024.2421046

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Earth 3 - Lion

Young Justice (2010 - *) Series Continuity – Timeline: Between Season 1 & 2

Earth 3.

Crime Syndicate sent their new team of enforcers, the Team Titans, to deal with a trouble maker called “The Lion.” Their investigation lead them to a warehouse in Metropolis. Ultra Girl scanned the area and only found one man tinkering inside. Inertia went to sent in to scout for traps. He disappeared. Ultra Girl tried to break down the walls, but they were somehow reinforced and nearly broke her own hand. Talon tried to flush out the enemy with a gas weapon. No reaction. Scarab tried to compromise the structural integrity of the building with sonic attacks. The man inside seemed to notice, but went back to work. Finally, Magog outright shouted and challenged the Lion to a fight. At that, the entire warehouse turned green for a second and there was a massive explosion. When the dust cleared, all that was left was Magog. Metropolis was reduced to a crater. Ultra Girl was poisoned, burned and what was left fell kilometers away.

Earth 1.

A random warehouse in the middle of Metropolis manifests a green door that would logically go nowhere.

Rumors of a master mind criminal called The Lion shows up in Earth 1.

Lionel Luthor finds William Magnus ad recruits him for a project. The Metal Men.

By the time YJ reaches the end of Outsiders the duo has a team and has made

the first batch of Metal Men.

The Hero Team (Magnus Metal Men)

Gold – Iron – Lead – Tin – Platinum – Mercury – Copper

Lionel’s secret lab has made more given his research into Magnus technique.

The Hit Squad (Lionel’s Death Metal Men)

Plutonium – Uranium – Thorium – Radium – Strontium

The Heroes for Hire (Military Contract)

Cobalt – Nickel – Bismuth – Antimony

The Back Ups (In case of emergency)

Zirconium – Lithium – Aluminum – Silicon – Magnesium – Osmium – Zinc – Gallium – Silver – Iridium – Barium – Calcium – Sodium

What does the Lion want? A weapon against the Crime Syndicate. Once he perfects this technology, he’s going back.

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[all-action-all-picture]

Strontium Dog - Gronk, Johnny Alpha and Wulf drawn by Carlos Ezquerra for a Titan Books collection.

[transcognizi]

Periodic table of pronouns (aka chemical pronouns time)! Bolded are my personal favourites and the green ones are Extra Favourite. :)

Hydrogen – hy/hydros/hydroself

Helium – hel/helis/heliself

Lithium – li/lith/lithiself

Beryllium – be/ber/berself

Boron – bor/boros/boroself

Carbon – ca/car/carself

Nitrogen – ni/nitro/nitroself

Oxygen – ox/oxys/oxyself

Fluorine – fluo/fluor/fluoriself

Neon – ne/neos/neoself

Sodium – na/nas/naself

Magnesium – mag/mags/magneself

Aluminum – alu/alum/alumiself

Silicon – sil/silic/silicoself

Phosphorus – pho/phos/phoself

Sulfur – sul/sulf/sulself

Argon – ar/arg/argoself

Chlorine – chlo/chlor/chloriself

Potassium – kal/kalis/kaliself

Calcium – cal/calc/calself

Scandium – sca/scan/scandiself

Titanium – ti/titan/titaself

Vanadium – va/van/vanaself

Chromium – chro/chrom/chromiself

Manganese – ma/mang/mangaself

Iron – fe/fer/ferroself

Cobalt – co/cob/cobaself

Nickel – ni/nic/nicself

Copper – cu/cup/cupruself

Zinc – zin/zinc/zinself

Gallium – ga/gal/galliself

Germanium – ge/ger/gerself

Arsenic – as/ars/arself

Selenium – se/sel/seleniself

Bromine – bro/brom/bromiself

Krypton – kry/krypt/kryself

Rubidium – ru/rubi/rubiself

Strontium – stro/stron/strontiself

Yttrium – y/ytt/yttself

Zirconium – zi/zirc/zircoself

Niobium – nio/niob/nioself

Molybdenum – mo/mol/molself

Technetium – te/tec/techneself

Ruthenium – ruth/ruths/rutheself

Rhodium – rho/rhod/rhoself

Palladium – pa/palla/pallaself

Silver – ag/argen/agself

Cadmium – cad/cadm/cadmiself

Indium – in/ind/indiself

Tin – sta/stannum/staself

Antimony – an/antim/antiself

Tellurium – te/tellur/telluself

Iodine – io/iod/ioself

Xenon – xen/xens/xenoself

Cesium – ce/ces/ceself

Barium – ba/bar/bariself

Lanthanium – lan/lanth/lanself

Cerium – cer/cers/ceriself

Praseodymium – pra/pras/praself

Neodymium – neo/neod/neodyself

Promethium – pro/prom/promeself

Samarium – sa/sam/samariself

Europium – eu/eur/euroself

Gadolinium – gad/gads/gadoself

Terbium – ter/terb/terbiself

Dysprosium – dy/dys/dysproself

Holmium – hol/holm/holmiself

Erbium – er/erb/erbiself

Thulium – thu/thul/thuliself

Ytterbium – ytter/ytters/ytterself

Lutetium – lu/lute/luself

Hafnium – ha/haf/hafself

Tantalum – ta/tan/tanself

Tungsten – tun/tungs/tunself

Rhenium – rhe/rhen/rheself

Osmium – os/osm/osmiself

Iridium – ir/irid/iriself

Platinum – pla/plat/platiself

Gold – au/aurum/auself

Mercury – mer/merc/mercuself

Thallium – tha/thal/thalliself

Lead – plu/plum/pluself

Bismuth – bi/bis/bismuself

Polonium – po/pol/poloself

Astatine – at/ast/astaself

Radon – ra/rad/radoself

Francium – fra/fran/franself

Radium – rad/radis/radiself

Actinium – ac/actin/actiself

Thorium – tho/thor/thoriself

Protactinium – prota/protas/protaself

Uranium – u/ur/uraself

Neptunium – nep/nept/neptuself

Plutonium – pluto/pluton/plutoself

Americium – am/amer/ameriself

Curium – cur/curis/curiself

Burkelium – bur/burk/burself

Californium – cali/calis/califoself

Einsteinium – ei/ein/einself

Fermium – fer/ferm/fermiself

Mendelevium – mend/mends/mendself

Nobelium – no/nob/nobeself

Lawrencium – la/law/lawreself

Rutherfordium – ruther/ford/rutherself

Dubnium – du/dub/dubniself

Seaborgium – sea/seab/seaborself

Bohrium – boh/bohr/bohriself

Hassium – has/hass/hassiself

Meitnerium – mei/meit/meiself

Darmstadtium – dar/darm/darself

Roentgenium – roe/roen/roenself

Copernicum – cope/copern/copeself

Nihonium – nih/nihon/nihoself

Flerovium – fle/fler/fleroself

Moscovium – mos/mosc/moscoself

Livermorium – liv/liverm/liveself

Tennessine – ten/tennes/tenneself

Oganesson – og/ogan/ogaself

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2000 AD #225

15th Aug 1981

Cover: (Judge Death Lives)

Strontium Dog - The Gronk Affair (part 2) 

Nemesis the Warlock - book one (part 4) 

Ro-Jaws' 2000AD film review - Outland and Clash of the Titans

Judge Dredd - Judge Death Lives (part 2) 

Tharg's Future Shocks - Seeing is Believing! 

Meltdown Man (part 48) 

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Day 7: Power Armor

I don’t know why I put power armor on my list prompts; I’m hopeless drawing it. I’ve decided instead to do some chapters of Arcadia’s (my Fallout 4 OC) memoirs (which I ended up having published in a hardback book from Blurb).

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I rarely wear power armor — it’s clumsy, bulky, and I can’t sit down when I’m wearing it. And yet I’ve stubbornly held on to every last suit I’ve rescued from the muck, found on an abandoned train, or looted from the corpse of a murdered paladin. I can probably chalk it up to all those years I spent as a junior mechanic with Cal, fiddling with the nuts and bolts of machines we’d never need or use. I’m the same way today — when I need alone time, to distract myself from the brutal world beyond Sanctuary’s gates, I find myself with a screwdriver set and an ice-cold bottle of Nuka-Grape, scraping grease from the joints of a Brotherhood T-60, installing a new Stealth Boy in my Institute X-01, or replacing the halogen bulbs in all of my Vault Boy headlamps. It’s not just busy work; it’s much needed relaxation. Occasionally I invite Sturges and Todd to join me, as long as they keep quiet and let me work in peace.

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I can appreciate the need for developing weapons — even atomic weapons — in times of war; I don’t like it, but an arms race is an arms race. And successfully identifying a quantum strontium isotope to improve a soldier’s arsenal is part of that process. What I find disturbing — and granted, I’m no “beverageer” — is parlaying that discovery into the recipe for a refreshing carbonated soft drink. Maybe my notions of Nuka-Cola’s wholesome goodness are based on the naive impressions of a child, and maybe I’m too smitten with the family-friendly atmosphere of an amusement park dedicated to my favorite tonic, but turning battlefield superiority into bumper cars and parlor games is too much. The optimist in me hopes the company’s actions were a way of balancing the karmic scales, but my cynical side sees only sales graphs and marketing ploys. As far as I’m concerned, Nuka-Cola is and always will be an invigorating pick-me-up — nothing more, nothing less.

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I remember the magazine articles and newsreels before the War, about the big business of propaganda and advertising. I remember seeing pictures of power armor emblazoned with the names of the household products we all had in our pantries. Some seemed more valid than others. Abraxo made sense �� I know full well the value of industrial grade scouring powder to keep mud and blood off a critical piece of hardware. And during wartime, I suppose a suit of armor promoting the satisfying sour apple taste of Vim Refresh was entirely logical — at least in Maine. But what I didn’t understand then, and which seems just as foolish now, is a T-51 advertising sweetened breakfast cereal. Beyond providing 100% of your recommended daily allowance of sugar, I don’t see how it helps to have Sugar Bombs represented on the battlefield — unless it was morbid irony, one kind of bomb preceding another. I’d like to think, though, that the promoters were more sensitive than that. They had to be, right?

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On account of Sheffield’s feelings, there aren’t too many drunken nights in Sanctuary — but when we do tie one on, it’s memorable. Our last party began as others have: Buddy’s unending supply of ice cold Gwinnett, Cait goading Preston about Quincy, Marcy having one too many and melting down in tears, and Codsworth making “dead soldier” jokes. I got into a friendly argument with Titan about the upkeep on the rad scrubbers in my X-01; before long we were deep in a rambling, incoherent discussion about power armor “done right”. The details are hazy after that, but I remember Sturges lugging the pieces of a surplus Brotherhood T-60 to the frame while Todd dashed off to the Red Rocket to fetch his favorite blowtorch. We must have worked straight through to morning. That afternoon, tiptoeing through a minefield of tools and screws and scraps, I discovered our “masterpiece”.

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Scientists reveal superconductivity secrets of an iron-based material

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have uncovered the atomic-scale mechanics that enhance superconductivity in an iron-based material, a finding published recently in Nature. Using advanced spectroscopy instruments housed in the UC Irvine Materials Research Institute, the researchers were able to image atom vibrations and thereby observe new phonons—quasiparticles that carry thermal energy—at the interface of an iron selenide (FeSe) ultrathin film layered on a strontium titanate (STO) substrate. "Primarily emerging from the out-of-plane vibrations of oxygen atoms at the interface and in apical oxygens in STO, these phonons couple with electrons due to the spatial overlap of electron and phonon wave functions at the interface," said lead author Xiaoqing Pan, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering, Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering and IMRI director.

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« La vaccination obligatoire, qui revient à une expérimentation humaine sans consentement, est contraire au Code de Nuremberg », expliquait Mary Holland, docteur en droit et professeur d’Université à la tribune des Nations Unies, le 4 mai 2016.

En effet, à la suite des atrocités médicales nazies, le monde a adopté le Code de Nuremberg qui affirme que « le consentement volontaire du sujet humain est absolument essentiel ».

Le pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques souligne également l’interdiction de l’expérimentation dans son texte de 1966.

Il stipule : « Nul ne peut être soumis sans son libre consentement à une expérience médicale ou scientifique. »

Opposer le Code de Nuremberg et le pacte des droits civils et politiques à la vaccination de force est parfaitement approprié.

Nous sommes bien confrontés à une expérimentation humaine de génie génétique d’ampleur mondiale qui comprend deux volets :

1°) le volet chimico-biologique puisque les vaccins contiennent du Phénol, Thimerosal, Mercure, Aluminium, Ethylène Glycol, Formol, Benzetonium, Squalène, SV40, cellules cancérisées, Benzonase, ADN et ARN viraux, Edulcorants, OGM, albumine humaine, antibiotiques sous forme de trace de néomycine, polymyxine B, kanamycine, gentamycine, streptomycine, trométamol.

Ces éléments combinés sont mutagènes et à une certaines doses mortels.

2°) le volet nanométrique puisque les vaccins contiennent des nano-composants de tungstène, titane, zirconium, hafnium, strontium, aluminium, nickel, fer, antimoine, chrome, or, zinc, platine, argent, bismuth, cérium, cuivre, plomb, étain, baryum, vanadium, magnésium, souffre, silicium, calcium, sodium, manganèse…

Les preuves de la présence de ces nanocomposants vaccinaux ont été apportées par les docteurs Antonietta M Gatti et Stefano Montanari pour le Conseil National de Recherche d’Italie.

Les résultats de leurs nano-diagnostics ont été publiés dans l’International Journal of Vaccines le 23 Janvier 2017. (voir Morphéus n°81).

Les résultats de ce nano-diagnostic sur 44 vaccins dont les onze obligatoires sont sur les bureaux de tous les fabricants de vaccins.

Ces derniers, n’ayant aucune réponse scientifique à apporter, s’empressent de mettre leurs sbires aux postes des ministères de santé publique.

Ils entendent tuer dans l’œuf cette information et prendre des mesures très coercitives pour imposer leurs vaccins.

Protections juridiques

Il existe d’autres protections juridiques par exemple : l’article 3 de la Déclaration des droits de l’homme, le nouveau Code civil qui reconnaît le principe du respect à l’intégrité du corps humain, l’article 36 du code de déontologie médicale, les différents arrêts de la Cour sur l’information transparente due au patient.

Citons aussi la loi Kouchner disant qu’aucun acte médical ne peut être pratiqué sans consentement libre et éclairé du patient. Enfin, l’article 1111 de la santé publique dit que tout citoyen a le droit à la liberté d’accepter ou de refuser un acte médical, et la vaccination est un acte médical.

Cependant, la preuve est faite qu’il s’agit d’une expérimentation vaccinale nano-chimico-biologique sans le consentement des populations, cela relève bien du Code de Nuremberg et du pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques.

Il s’agit donc bien de traduire tous les acteurs de cette folie vaccinale expérimentale devant une Cour de Justice Internationale qu’ils aient réussi ou non à imposer leurs soupes vaccinales…"

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So in my fictional universe (for which i’m currently making a comic) there’s hockey ofc since it consumes my life. Therefore i created some team logos for it! The main focus of my comic isn’t hockey, but i’m def. gonna include matches and stuff!

In my world, cities are named after metals.

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Judge Dredd Co-Creator Carlos Ezquerra dies aged 70

Judge Dredd Co-Creator Carlos Ezquerra dies aged 70

Carlos Ezquerra. Photo: Lisa Mills

Carlos Ezquerra, legendary co-creator of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog and many more all-time classics for 2000AD has died, aged 70.

One of the all-time greatest comic book artists, the Spanish illustrator was one of the titans of 2000AD but had recently been fighting a second battle with cancer, which had forced him to reluctantly cancel UK appearances, hoping to…

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Nuclear Physics Infodump: Nucleosynthesis Part 2

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4: Type Ia supernovas. 

Actually, as weird as it seems, classical supernovas don’t produce that many elements (well, they do, but those elements were mostly in the star already and just got blasted into space). If you thought most of the heavy elements come from supernovas, I’m sorry, but you’ve been bamboozled. This is because a core-collapse supernova isn’t particularly fusion-powered. The power source is something much weirder. Beta decay (neutron->proton+electron) releases an antineutrino. Running beta decay in reverse (proton+electron->neutron) releases a neutrino. You pretty much never have enough pressure to run beta decay in reverse, but your massive star just ran out of power since it made iron and iron is very stable, so there’s a few dozen solar masses squishing the core of the star, and that suffices.

So you get a big ball of neutrons at the heart of the star, and it’s also super-hot and the only good way for it to cool down is by running beta decay forwards (by heat) and backwards (by pressure), and this turns about 10% of the star’s mass-energy into a titanic neutrino pulse. A few of these neutrinos interact with the rest of the star, and dump about 1% of their energy into the stars outer layers. This is enough to cause the star to violently blow the fuck up and match the brightness of its entire host galaxy. So a literal supernova is actually just produced by 1% of the power of shaggy the neutrino pulse. That’s how a supernova can go off one galaxy over, and neutrino detectors on earth will pick up a ton of neutrino detections in a quick burst, even after 160,000 light-years worth of inverse square law attenuation.

But that’s core-collapse supernova. There’s another type, which is where we’ll get most of our metals from. Type Ia supernova! Basically, you’ve got a white dwarf (typically carbon, although there might also be oxygen, neon, and magnesium), and it gets too big (whether by accreting mass or by running into another white dwarf), and initiates nuclear fusion again. But star cores have the property that when they heat up from fusion, they poof up, lowering the fusion rate. White dwarf matter doesn’t poof up when you heat it. It stays the same density. So when a fusion reaction kicks off, it heats up the surroundings, which don’t expand, and the fusion reaction goes faster (because higher temperature), which heats up the surroundings more. So instead of a nice controlled reaction, you get a really violent kaboom of rapid nuclear fusion that consumes the whole white dwarf and spectacularly destroys it.

This does all the fusion up to iron (or thereabouts, a lot of the nuclei near iron have similar binding energy, and it isn’t exactly an orderly fusion process, more like a trash fire of every possible fusion reaction that can be run before the white dwarf blows up), and throws out a bunch of the most stable elements. Specifically, most of everything from calcium to zinc comes from type Ia supernovae.

5: Slowly adding neutrons (The s-process) In red giants (and red supergiants, both small and large stars can do this towards the end of their lives, though they have somewhat different production rates and produce different types of elements, large stars get zinc to rubidium, smaller stars get strontium up to lead), the s-process produces all the other elements. And also lithium for some weird reason. And they are released when the star dies, as normal.

The s-process works because a few fusion reactions in red (super)giants produce a spare neutron. It’s pretty hard to stick two nuclei together, since they both have positive charges, so you’ll really have to ram them together to overcome the electric repulsion. But, if there’s a nucleus, and you want to add a neutron, that’s really easy because the neutron is uncharged, so it can just stick on to the nucleus without being repelled. So, assuming there’s a stash of preexisting nuclei past helium (from dying stars and Ia supernova dust) in your star, you can just keep adding neutrons from these fusion reactions. If your nucleus has too many neutrons on it, it’ll beta decay, turning a neutron into a proton. And bam, you have your next element! And you can add neutrons to that until it beta decays, and get your next element, and irradiate that, and so on.

It’s rather slow. You shouldn’t expect massive neutron fluxes, just an atom getting hit by a neutron every few years or so and getting bigger. We know this exists because technetium is radioactive, and we’ve found technetium in red giants, so the only way for it to exist is if the star is making it somehow. There are some elements where most of them come from other sources, but the s-process is responsible for a decent chunk of: gallium-to-molybdenum, tin, tellurium, barium-to-neodymium, hafnium-to-tantalum, and mercury-to-lead. (the s-process favors elements that have a lot of stable isotopes which are bad at absorbing neutrons). Also lithium.

This is why nuclear reactors make surrounding material radioactive, actually! We’re carrying out an artificial s-process by bathing surrounding stuff in neutrons, so they absorb neutrons, and sometimes they absorb too many and become a radioactive isotope.

There’s a block at bismuth, the process doesn’t go any further. This is because radioactive isotopes of smaller elements almost always beta-decay, which doesn’t lose any nucleons. However, alpha decay does lose 4 nucleons (emitting a helium nucleus), so we’d expect a blockage once stuff starts alpha-decaying with a short half-life, because suddenly we’re being set back multiple steps. If you take bismuth and add a neutron, you get a beta-decay to polonium, which falls apart in a third of a year back to an isotope of lead, and you can’t go any further.

So that’s where a bunch of elements past zinc come from. Taking stuff smaller than zinc, and you just keep making the atom bigger by adding neutrons, and then when the star dies they are released.

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