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EdenRester OP , 9 months ago to worldnews in Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia

Some scientists argue that finding new elements is not worth the money, especially when those atoms are inherently unstable and will disappear in a blink. "I personally don't find it exciting, as a scientist, just to produce more short-lived elements," says Witold Nazarewicz, a physicist who studies nuclear structure at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

But to element hunters, the payoff is compelling. The new elements would extend the table—now seven rows deep—to an eighth row, where some theories predict exotic traits will emerge. Elements in that row might even destroy the table's very periodicity because chemical and physical properties might not repeat at regular intervals anymore. Pushing further into the eighth row also could answer questions that scientists have wrestled with since Dmitri Mendeleev's day: How many elements exist? And how far does the table go?

Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/storied-russian-lab-trying-push-periodic-table-past-its-limits-and-uncover-exotic-new

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EdenRester OP , 10 months ago to news in Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ — sparking uproar

You can read the session "Reception" of the related Wikipedia page : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

EdenRester , 10 months ago to news in One of America’s First Women’s Colleges Is Accused of Paying Men More

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EdenRester , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What's the closest you have ever been to actually dying?

Yeah

EdenRester , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What's the closest you have ever been to actually dying?

I have not seen myself closed enough until now. Just think that could be anytime and anywhere but nothing has really frightened me.