Wednesday, March 25, 2009
addictive compounds in nature
'addictive' compounds in nature
I listened to a program about bees, and their increased propensity to dance under the influence of coke.
It seemed that this tactic was a rather good one for plants to adopt, in that it would increase their
fertility, at the expense of their neighbours. A reduced amount of nectar, and a little something extra, might
be more economical for the flowers.
Obviously plants have developed many attractants, but this is the first time I have thought of using
'drugs'. I wonder how many of the biological chemicals have this as their raison d'etre.
I guess that such compunds could also have the added bonus of repelling creatures that overdose themselves.
The program gave no evolutionary message about this result.
cheers
martinW
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Interference with higg's cloud
Interference with higg's cloud
If one thinks of a particle pushing through a cloud of higg's particles then one can
imagine that a wave of them would be pushed out in front of it. one assumes that this
wave would travel out at the speed of light.
If it encountered obstacles, then one would naturally get some interference pattern's
emerging. The particle would follow a line of least resistance, and so the particle
will show interference.
Now this does not need to be probabilistic for the particle, in the sense that it would
be the cloud of higgs that was delivering it. I am not sure if the cloud needs to be probabilistic, or not.
The particle will appear probabilistic of course.
just a thought
cheers
martinW
