Oxytocin is often known as ‘the bonding hormone’. It’s released when we feel safe, connected, and close to people we trust.Oxytocin hacks to stimulate naturally-<ul><li>Stroking a pet, interacting with animals lovingly </li><li>Being in close company of friends and family and being affectionate </li><li>Giving compliments </li><li>Holding hands</li><li>Giving or receiving massage (scalp massage)</li><li>Preparing and sharing food with loved ones </li></ul>

Oxytocin 

Serotonin is most commonly associated with mood regulation, balanced sleeping patterns, improving happiness and decreasing anxiety.Serotonin hacks to stimulate naturally-<ul><li>Getting some sun enjoying the warmth of sun on your eyelids can greatly enhance mood and also help to boost your levels of Vitamin D.</li><li>Aerobic exercise such a running, swimming or cycling helps to release Tryptophan in to the bloodstream which is then converted in to Serotonin</li><li>Getting out for a walk in nature. Try escaping the city for a leafy country or woodland walk</li></ul>

Serotonin

Dopamine is the reward hormone that is organically released from things like praise, positive outcomes, winning and food.Dopamine hacks to stimulate naturally - <ul><li>Eating your favourite foods as a treat (in moderation )</li><li>Having gratitude for the little wins in life</li><li>Practicing self care </li><li>Listening to feel-good music </li><li>Finishing a task or project you started </li><li>Break bigger tasks into smaller parts and deliberately reward yourself internally each time you complete the smaller task</li></ul>

Dopamine 

Endorphin is heavily involved in the fight or flight response and is actually a natural pain. It helps manage pain, reduce stress and increase pleasure.Endorphin hacks to stimulate naturally - <ul><li>Exercise</li><li>Laughing with friends, watching/listening to comedy </li><li>Being creative through art or design, gardening or anything that gets your juices flowing</li><li>Aromatherapy oils like rosemary, lavender, citrus etc</li></ul>

Endorphin

Happiness chemicals and how to hack them  I think it's fair to say that we would all like to be more happy. Whilst we can agree on that, I'm sure we can also all agree that happiness is fleeting and something that comes and goes. In this blog post we are delving into the chemicals we know from science that help to prod

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Happiness chemicals & how to hack them

Anna Lembke, medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, shares key insights from her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

One of the most important discoveries in neuroscience in the past 100 years is that pleasure and pain are co-located. The same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain. And pleasure and pain work like a balance. When we feel pleasure, the balance tips one way; when we feel pain, it tips the other. One of the overarching rules governing this balance is that it wants to stay level. After any deviation from neutrality, our brains will work very hard to restore a level balance, or what neuroscientists call homeostasis.

The Balance Wants To Stay Level

When we feel pleasure, our brain releases a little bit of the neurotransmitter dopamine in our brain’s reward pathway, and our balance tips slightly to the side of pleasure. But no sooner has that happened than our brain adapts to the increased dopamine by down-regulating my dopamine receptors and dopamine transmission. Why? Because, for the balance to level, it has to tip an equal and opposite amount to the other side, the side of pain. This is the aftereffect, the hangover, the comedown.

… So Pleasure Will Be Followed By Pain

If we wait long enough, neutrality is restored, and the hangover and the comedown pass. But what if we don’t wait? What if, instead, we go after pleasure and then again after pleasure?Once that happens, we’ve changed out joy set point. We need to keep doing what gives us pleasure—not to feel pleasure, but just to feel normal. And as soon as we stop doing it, we experience the universal symptoms of withdrawal from any addictive substance—anxiety, irritability, insomnia, dysphoria, and mental preoccupation with using, otherwise known as craving. This is the hallmark of the addicted brain.

The Balance Tips More And More And Then Some

This fine-tuned pleasure–pain balance of ours has evolved over millions of years to help us approach pleasure and avoid pain. It’s what has kept us alive in a world of scarcity and ever-present danger. But here’s the problem: We no longer live in that world. We now live in a world of overwhelming abundance.

A Life-Saving Mechanism In Non Life-Threatening Times

The access, quantity, variety, and potency of highly reinforcing drugs and behaviors has never been greater, including drugs that didn’t exist before—texting, tweeting, gaming, gambling, sugar, shopping, vaping, voyeuring. The list is endless. Online products with their flashing lights, celebratory sounds, laudatory likes, and bottomless bowls promise ever-greater rewards just a finger click away. They’re engineered to be addictive. The smartphone is the equivalent of the hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation.

To Dopamine, Any Drug Is A Drug - And Today’s Drugs Are 24/7

If you haven’t met your drug of choice yet, it’s coming soon to a website near you. Yet despite this increased access to all these feel-good drugs and behaviors—or as Anna Lembke hypothesizes, because of it—we are more miserable than ever. Rates of depression, anxiety, physical pain, and suicide are increasing worldwide, especially in wealthy nations.

Innocent Drugs, Same Effect: Dopamine Overload

“Throughout my 20-year career, I have seen more and more patients, including otherwise healthy young people with loving families, elite education, and relative wealth, presenting with depression, anxiety, and full-body pain. We are titillating ourselves to death.”Anna Lembke

We’re Titillating Ourselves To Death

Anna Lembke put a patient of hers that was suffering from debilitating anxiety and depression on a dopamine fast: instead of prescribing antidepressants, she suggested he abstain from all screens, including video games for one month. The patient returned a month later and reported feeling better than he had in years—less anxiety, less depression. Why? Because when he stopped bombarding his reward pathway with dopamine, he gave his brain the opportunity to restore homeostasis, a level balance.

Dopamine fasting 

Whatever your drug of choice, give it up for a month, a week, or even a single day. When you do, notice how, at first, your pleasure–pain balance tilts to the side of pain, and you feel restless, cranky, and most of all preoccupied with using your drug. Your brain is screaming out all the reasons why you should use, even though you committed to a period of abstinence. But if you wait long enough and balance is restored, you’ll find that you’re free. Your mind is less preoccupied with using, you’re more able to be present in the moment, and life’s little, unexpected joys are rewarding again.

Just Wait Long Enough

If and when you decide to go back to using your drug of choice, remember to create literal and metacognitive barriers between yourself and it. The bottom line is this: To reset your dopamine brain, first abstain.

To Reset, First Abstain

In the late 1960s, scientists conducted a series of experiments on dogs. Due to their obvious cruelty, these experiments would not be allowed today. Nonetheless, they provide important information on brain homeostasis, or leveling the balance.

What If We Tip The Scale On The Pain Side First?

With repeated exposure to a painful stimulus, the dog’s mood and heart rate adapted in kind. The initial response (pain) got shorter and weaker. The after response (pleasure) got longer and stronger. Pain morphed into hypervigilance, which morphed into a fit of joy. It’s impossible to read this experiment without feeling pity for the animal subjected to this torture, yet the so-called fit of joy suggests a tantalizing possibility: By pressing on the pain side of the balance, might we achieve a more enduring source of pleasure?

Pain As A Pathway To Pleasure

How our smartphones kill a mechanism that works to keep us alive

Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke shares 5 key insights from her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“People have become a slave to technology such that they allow it to control their awareness. As soon as a notification beeps, one reaches out to check it. If you practice this kind of a behaviour all day, you are just practising distraction."

Scenario: Okay let me focus on my work...The next moment beep beep!Huh? Alright first let me check my notification...Woah...A new follow request on my insta..let me check!And then you are totally off from your actual work.Action plan: TURN ON THE DO NOT DISTURB MODE OR BETTER SWITCH OFF YOUR PHONE WHILE YOU ARE DOING YOUR FULL FOCUS WORK.

Turn Off All The Notifications Of Your Phone! Will Ya?

Do you know that multitasking reduces your productivity up to 40%So focus on one task at a time. So that means no texting and doing your homework simultaneously!

NO MULTITASKING!

Your posture sends a signal to your brain as to how active or lazy you feel.So sit back straight while doing your work.A good posture creates an active mind and an active mind creates a productive YOU!

SIT BACK STRAIGHT! NO SLUGGISH POSITION.

Yup, just a morning exercise is not enough!Take 5 minutes of walking or stretching breaks in between your work.Sitting for long hours can lead to back pain which is not healthy.

EXERCISE AND GET MOVING

When you are working on something, instead of focusing on the hours put in, focus on what you want to get done.Get it?

FOCUS ON YOUR GOAL NOT ON THE HOURS

Books with better structures encourage us to think in sequence — the more we read, the more our brains are able to link cause and effect.You’ll be surprised at how much focused you get. Losing yourself in a book is the ultimate relaxation.

MEDITATE! 

Remember you master what you practice. Why are we so good at distraction? It's because we "practice distraction." So take these small action plans today and let's break this habit of distraction together!

The human attention span has been never been so low. A study conducted by Microsoft in 2015 suggests that the average human has an 8-seconds attention span. The number has shrunk over the years due…

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To look at whether time travel is possible we need to distinguish between travelling back and travelling forwards. “From a philosophical point of view, we are constantly time travelling! As we age in our ordinary everyday lives, we are forever travelling into the future'.  “The more interesting idea is being able to access a future everyone else is travelling slowly towards. So you move forward without ageing. And that, in theory, is actually perfectly possible,” he says.

Time TRAVEL- A One Way Ticket?

You may have heard of Cryogenics. This is when someone who’s died is frozen instead of being buried or cremated. The theory is they can be “woken up” in the future when we have the technology to bring them back to life. Or a machine or device could be developed so that some people age more slowly than others around them. This way they’d live longer and see a future beyond the average person’s life span.

Going Forward In Time

Another method might involve travelling in a rocket/spaceship at a very high speed, close to the speed of light. “We can’t establish equality with the speed of light but it is possible, in theory, to travel nearly as fast as the speed of light,” adds Dr Steane. So imagine you’re in a spaceship travelling very fast away from the Earth and you stay in orbit for a year. You'd age at the same rate as if you were still on the Earth, by a year, but when you returned, the earth may have aged hundreds of years. “This is way beyond the technology we have at the moment, but in theory, it's possible.”

So we may one day be able to time travel forwards but what about going back?“Here we hit the philosophical problem that always comes up when you discuss travelling back in time,” says Dr Steane. "Suppose you could go back in time and you accidentally killed your grandparents. Wouldn’t that mean you couldn’t exist either?"So how could you go back in time and see people who’ve died - some of them hundreds of years ago?It's very complex.

Going Back?

However, going back in time goes against the laws of physics- some processes are reversible and some irreversible.Processes like an avalanche can’t unhappen. Likewise, on a smaller scale, if you drop an egg, you can’t unbreak it.A spinning top or a pendulum, is reversible because it keeps moving, repeating itself. Nothing really happens. “Within physics, we’re very aware of these issues. The world is irreversible. And so are our lives. We grow, we age, we die,” says Dr Steane.You can’t reverse the effects of a catastrophic event. And that’s why going back in time is not likely to be possible.

If you’re feeling disappointed that we can’t literally travel back in time then remember there’s nowhere you can’t go in your own mind.Think about history lessons where you’re asked to imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes from long ago or when you look at old photos of fun times. That’s time travel. And what about when you read a book or listen to a story told by a grandparent?You can transport yourself to anywhere back in time and the beauty is you can come back. Since isn’t the greatest fear of time travelling getting stuck in a different time zone and never being able to return?

Your Very Own Time Travel

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𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦?

Our world is facing a global mental health crisis, one that is unique to modern times. Neuroscientist and neurologist Adam Gazzaley calls this a problem of “<a href="https://www.childrenandscreens.com/2018-conference/talks-and-panels/the-cognition-crisis-the-perils-and-promise-of-technology-and-the-brain/">ancient brains in a high-tech world </a>.”<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000759">Our brains evolved for a very different environment </a>, and our biological instincts are struggling to keep pace with a sea of information, artificial stimulation and smartphone pings. This has contributed to <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distracted-mind">a worldwide surge in anxiety, depression, addiction and other cognitive issues </a>.

Ancient Brains In A High-Tech World

As is often the case, <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/the-rise-of-the-machines-lessons-from-history-on-how-to-adapt/">technology comes first and society adapts second </a>. We are learning that surviving and thriving in the modern world requires a better understanding of our mind. This need for “cognition about cognition” brings us to <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0021">the science of metacognition </a>.

Cognition About Cognition

Metacognition is a fancy word for what we all know and do hundreds of times each day. Ever tried to focus your attention? Attempted to regulate an emotion? Felt distracted and made the decision to put away your phone? Each is an example of recognizing a mental state and trying to control it.Metacognition <a href="https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/metacognition/">involves the scientific study of how </a> the mind can be aware of, and control, its own activity. Understanding how the mind works gives us insight into how we can use it better — an instructional how-to guide tailored to our personal psyches.

What Is Metacognition

A unique side effect of modern technology is that apps, games, social media and online content can <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106422">hijack the learning pathways of the human brain</a>. As a result, we’re increasingly captive to compulsive behaviours, attention issues and emotional problems.The pandemic has poured gasoline on this crisis. It has forced many people into social isolation and contributed to an even greater reliance on devices for social interaction and entertainment.This has added to the global tsunami of <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression">debilitating mental health issues </a>, affecting over half a billion people with <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28058091">a financial toll in the trillions </a>.

The Need For Metacognitive Research

But there is good news: the quiet growth of metacognitive research.Decades of empirical studies have shown that metacognition is effective at decreasing <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24494136">addictive behaviours </a> and improving <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/48516003">emotional well-being </a>. Metacognitive training has demonstrated significant benefits in <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02211">therapy </a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v11n10p42">education </a> and even <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/4/2/18/htm">business </a>. Particularly effective are the tools for helping people engage with their own thoughts and emotions in <a href="https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/cognitive-behavioural-therapy">cognitive behavioural therapy </a>.

The Quiet Growth Of Metacognitive Research

Metacognition is a fuzzy concept. One handy metaphor is to think of the brain as having both software and hardware. The software is our thoughts, feelings and conversations with others; the hardware is the neurons and connections between them. We are only beginning to understand how these two interact. So when something goes wrong in our brain, we’re uncertain of how to fix it.

The Fuzziness Of The Term Metacognition

Metacognitive therapy is unique in the sense that it involves the development of beneficial <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/0000218-021">metacognitive beliefs</a>. In many cases, it has shown to be <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22273">more effective than cognitive behavioural therapy </a>, another dominant approach taken by therapists.For example, it can be helpful for someone to believe “I can direct my thoughts and emotions, and it is beneficial for me.” Believing in this possibility is a necessary precursor to action. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.05.018">Metacognitive therapy focuses on building this foundation </a>, and it’s from this firm grounding that people can reach for the specific tools of metacognition.

The successes of metacognitive therapy

We are already aware of many of these tools. And yet our practical minds require evidence before committing to them. The improving of attention through mental training  or meditation practice  works. Likewise, the strategies offered by cognitive behavioural therapy  are among the most effective for learning emotional regulation . Particularly useful is the practice of “detached mindfulness” for treating depression  and anxiety . Memory strategies have also shown to be productive, including the famous “mind palace technique” .

The Tools Of Metacognition

Overcoming the cognition crisis partly depends on getting around our mind’s <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00359">automatic pleasure-seeking </a>. Internally, we can avoid falling into the trap of instant gratification by being mindful of the information and entertainment we consume. Externally, we can craft a physical environment that improves our efficiency and mental welfare. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/dec/17/internet-restriction-apps-productivity">Distraction blocking software </a> offers just one example of how to do this.

Overcoming The Cognition Crisis 

We exercise, control what we eat and buy ergonomic desk chairs to take care of our bodies — it’s long past time we take the same care of our minds. There are so many evidence-based actions we can take to design a personalized toolkit of mental habits and strategies. Doing so will allow us to be more deliberate with our thoughts, attention and emotions, which can then improve every aspect of our lives.

It’s time we take care of our minds

Just as human health depends on mastering our own physical systems, the future of cognition depends on understanding and controlling our own psychological states. Solving the cognition crisis requires we get smart about our own minds, and there’s never been a more vital time to do that.

It’s Time We Get Smart About Our Own Minds

Researchers report metacognition therapies, or directing personal thoughts and emotions for the benefit of mental wellbeing, can have positive effects on the treatment of anxiety, depression, and addictions.

How Metacognition, or Thinking About Thinking, Can Improve the Mental-Health Crisis

“Think of the immune system like the military, each part has a different role"The first line of defense is the white blood cells, who are first to recognise pathogens and fight off infection. Lymphocytes, a specific type of white blood cell, work to allow the body to remember the invading microbes to fight them faster in future infections. Other parts of the immune system include the bone marrow, where white blood cells are produced; lymph nodes, which produce and store infection-fighting cells throughout the body; and the spleen, which helps control and clean the amount of blood in the body.

1. Each part of the immune system has a unique function.  

Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies against a foreign invader without actually infecting the individual with the disease. As a result, when the body encounters that infection in the future, it knows how to fight it off, and you face minimal symptoms.

2. Vaccines play an important role to educate your immune system

Though it may not be pleasant to think about, countless microbes live on and in our bodies, and they are actually necessary to maintain good health. “Good bacteria in our body provides us with nutrients we need and also provides a defense against bad bacteria and infection,” Tran says. A balance needs to be maintained because when good bacteria is reduced, bad bacteria can take over, making us feel sick, he says.

3. Every day, we encounter billions of germs, but all aren't bad

Stress can lead to increased <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/cortisol/guide/">levels of cortisol </a>, a steroid hormone that is important for overall function of our body; but too much of it can lead to a number of health problems, including decreased immunity. “The high level of steroids can blunt your immune system,” Tran says.

4. Stress can affect the way your immune system works. 

Some research suggests that optimism can actually make our immune system work better. “I don’t know if it’s a direct cause,” Tran says, “but the happier, or more positive you are, the more likely you are to eat right and be less <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/stress/guide/">stressed </a>, which will help your immune system.”

5. Positive emotions + healthy lifestyle may boost your immunity

Not getting enough sleep can wreak havoc on the body, and the immune system is no exception. <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/health/2009/winter/not-sleeping.shtml">Studies show </a>that a lack of sleep may make you more likely to catch a cold and also makes it more difficult to fight off infection.

6. Sleep deprivation can impact immunity. 

When you experience an <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/allergies/">allergic reaction </a>, your immune system is responding to a harmless <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/allergies/">allergen </a>that it perceives as a threat. Symptoms of an allergic reaction, which can range from a runny nose to breaking out in <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/hives/">hives </a>to fainting, are a result of the body’s misguided attack.

7. Allergies are when your immune system reacts to a false alarm

<a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/autoimmune-disorders/managing-your-weight-with-an-autoimmune-disorder.aspx">Autoimmune diseases </a>occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. In such cases, white blood cells in the body cannot distinguish between pathogens and the body’s normal cells, setting off a reaction that destroys healthy tissues.While there are over 80 different types of autoimmune disorders, common ones include rheumatoid arthritis, <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/psoriasis/guide/">psoriasis </a>, and <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/crohns-disease/guide/">Crohn’s disease </a>.

8. Your immune system can attack itself. 

Autoimmune diseases affect about 8 percent of the population in the United States, making up the third most common category of disease after cancer and heart disease, according to the <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/11/04-0367_article">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention </a>. Women make up nearly 80 percent of those living with autoimmune diseases. While the cause of autoimmune diseases is unknown, it is generally believed to have a strong genetic component, and women in their child-bearing years are at the highest risk.

9. Women are more likely to be diagnosed with autoimmune disease

Cleaning and disinfecting may seem like the best way to avoid infection, but this is a case where there can be too much of a good thing.“When you make your environment so clean, you minimize so many foreign pathogens that you actually minimize the development of the immune system,” Tran says. This is especially the case with young children, since if they’re not exposed to harmful microbes at all, their bodies won’t be able to develop the proper antibodies to fight them off.

10. Being too clean can inhibit your immune system functioning 

Was learning about communicable diseases in biology, and found the process of immunity really interesting in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic.

There are surprising things you may not know about your body’s natural defense system.

10 Amazing Facts About Your Immune System

Houses of tomorrow: A more hopeful vision of domesticity, or a dystopian nightmare?In the future, will we find a better way to live, or will our homes be taken over by surveillance and despotic appliances?Imagine, if you can, a small, bluish room. Wires, screens, sensors. A few keepsakes from the old world. The room’s fleshy inhabitant, confined indoors by a zoonotic pandemic, greenwashes a data-mining company from her bed. The government has made it illegal for her to step outside.

A better way to live...

There is a communal kitchen down the corridor, which she shares with a few strangers she met online, but mostly she orders her meals via an interface and eats them here. Microphones record her interactions. A motion sensor on her wrist reminds her to optimise her performance. Filled with saudade for the dying world outside, she has bought a few rainforest plants to brighten the space. Her pocket surveillance device reminds her to water them. She catches the news: the world’s richest man has just left the Earth’s atmosphere.

... or a dystopian nightmare?

So much for the home of 2021! What about the home of 2050? Might it offer a more hopeful vision of domesticity than the dystopian nightmare some of us have been living through these past couple of years? Or are we inexorably sliding into a world of surveillance and atomisation, climate crisis and housing crisis, drowning alone as our meta headsets suck the very data from our souls?

Home of 2050

Maybe a bit of both, says Sarah Douglas, director of the Liminal Space. She is behind the forthcoming Tomorrow’s Home exhibition at the Museum of the Home in east London, which imagines how we’ll be living three decades hence. “The home of the future could help us flourish in ever more tailored and sophisticated ways,” she says. “But it will be messy as we learn to navigate the huge benefits and ethical questions that new interactive technologies bring.”....

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In the future, will we find a better way to live, or will our homes be taken over by surveillance and despotic appliances?

Houses of tomorrow: A more hopeful vision of domesticity, or a dystopian nightmare?

There’s another sorta, kinda moon in a sorta, kinda orbit around Earth that was discovered only in 2016. The quasi-moon - named Kamo’oalewa, after a Hawaiian word that refers to a moving celestial object - is not much to speak of, measuring less than 50 m (164 ft) across. It circles the Earth in a repeating corkscrew-like trajectory that brings it no closer than 40 to 100 times the 384,000 km (239,000 mi.) distance of our more familiar moon. Its odd flight path is caused by the competing gravitational pulls of the Earth and the sun, which continually bend and torque the moonlet’s motions.

One more moon, kind-of

And according to a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00303-7">new study in Nature</a>, we may at last know how it was formed.The moon’s been getting bombarded by space rocks for billions of years, resulting in all manner of lunar debris getting ejected into space (nearly 500 bits of which have made it to the surface of the Earth as meteorites). Kamo’oalewa is one such piece of lunar rubble that spiraled away from the moon.But rather than landing on Earth or simply tumbling off into the void, it found itself a quasi-satellite in its own right.

The origin of Kamo’oalewa

Kamo’oalewa won’t stick around all that long, as its current trajectory is not entirely stable. According to estimates from Sharkey (researcher) and others, the object will remain an earthly companion for only about 300 more years - nothing at all on the cosmic clock - after which it will break free of its current gravitational chains and twirl off into the void. Originally a part of the moon, then a companion of Earth, it will spend the rest of its long life traveling on its own.

Not here for long

I never knew about this quasi-moon. If you are into space and space exploration I highly recommend Jeffrey Kluger's weekly newsletter from Time.com.

Scientists have learned where Earth's 'second moon' came from—and how much longer it'll stick around.

Earth Has a Second Moon—For Another 300 Years, At Least

How is Superfluid?It is the state of the particle being cooled to absolute zero. It''s not 0°C, but a state of matter that gives off zero heat - entropy, zero entropy - zero energy, zero motion. Silent state.Zero is not from the Celsius scale, but from the 0° Kelvin scale.In Celsius, absolute zero is indicated by a temperature of -273°CIn reality no one is able to achieve absolute zero°KHowever, experts agree that approaching absolute zero is sufficient to say that it reaches absolute zero = -273°C

The Last State of Universe

Even though they (scientists) are still trying to figure out how to remove heat from the particles below -273°C, again & againEven when the particles were cooled, there was still some motion, but it was already so low that it was called a SUPERFLUID. Why?Because suddenly at temperatures close to absolute zero, the composition of different elements tends to be uniform, simultaneously. It is difficult to distinguish the structure from one another.It's clear that this is actually close to a zero state, close to a state of emptiness,

Cooling

Tend to be uniform (all together)Experts were confused the nature of this superfluid (superfluid), where it was not affected by gravity but rather diffuses.So when superliquid was poured into an open bottle, it will expand through the opening of the bottle or through cracks in the wall containing the superfluid.This was because at the superfluid level, the liquid has a new property, EXPAND

Particle Composition 

Then scientists hypothesized, could space be superfluid? MY ANSWER YES!Because the void is a state of absolute zero beyond superfluids created in the laboratoryIn fact, what they have now found, a superfluid? It's just close to the superfluid of the universe.But from this we can realize that the closer we get to absolute zero = no energy = zero energy, its nature is precisely: it expands like the universe.

The Universe is Expanding

They didn't realize that even though this was against gravity, being negative, it didn't mean it's dark energy or dark matter, but rather that it's the nature of emptiness, expanding.THIS ACTUALLY CONFIRMS THAT, SUPERFLUID HAS NOT REALLY lost the energy of motion.Likewise, the emptiness that seems passive, has not actually reached absolute zero.

Against Gravity 

There are still a few characteristics of things, so the superfluid still has some genetic properties from its elements which if the cooling effect disappears, it will return to its original position - original state, not neutral.

THE GENETIC OF MATTER

<a href="https://dsta.sh/FLq9bQc3x2Z29ue76">Emptiness</a> is arguably close to neutral. Not neutral yet? YES! It can't be called "absolutely empty"There are still genetic characteristics of a particle, but it does not characterize certain elements (does not characterize certain elements such as iron or gold etc.)So that from the void can not suddenly emerge gold, uranium, nickel or milk (from their cows ☺ ). Rather it came out of the void that was the elementary particle (the smallest matter )

NEUTRALITY

Similar to superfluid, where the particles are still trying to wriggle from their cold sleep and reveal their characteristics. Because it's not 100% energy lost.Likewise <a href="https://dsta.sh/FLq9bQc3x2Z29ue76">emptiness</a> which is actually existence, emptiness is not "without any existence", but emptiness itself is something - not nothing. So that it still characterizes the fundamental property of superfluids, namely expanding.

WHY IS THERE QUANTUM FLUCTUATION?

There is also another characteristic when there is a sudden jump (outflow) of energy, this indicates an increase in the temperature of space which is so small, then decreases again, and so on causing the pulsation of the universe.

Pulse of Universe

From this we can realize that all around us there is a pulsation of the universe. This is where gravity even covers the void. Gives a pulse.

Pulse of Gravity

They scientists didn't realize (or some did) that the flexural properties of superfluids or the flexural properties of voids, is something they knew as TIME CRYSTAL.Where a crystal can go back and forth to change its initial and final position without encouragement, without any influence.Google reportedly succeeded in making time crystal material, but only lasted (changes in position back and forth without external influence) for a few seconds.The time crystal confirms the model of universe explaining "what happened to the elastic nature of the void".

TIME CRYSTAL - The Elastic Nature of the Void

They scientists didn't realize (or some did) that the flexural properties of superfluids or the flexural properties of voids, is something they knew as TIME CRYSTAL.Where a crystal can go back and forth to change its initial and final position without encouragement, without any influence.Google reportedly succeeded in making time crystal material, but only lasted (changes in position back and forth without external influence) for a few seconds.The time crystal confirms the model of universe explaining "what happened to the elastic nature of the void".

Time Crystal 

Since the <a href="https://dsta.sh/FLq9bQc3x2Z29ue76">emptiness</a> is not the final frontier, then ... What is behind the emptiness?

This leads to understanding "THE GENETIC OF MATTER"

Superfluid

<ol><li>Get a friend who writes you 20 random words.</li><li>Lock them in your mind.</li><li>For 1 minute do not think about them.</li><li>Set a timer for 1 minute and try to remember them.</li></ol>

Memory Neurohacking

<ol><li>Take an object for example, a rock. For 1 minute try to think as many uses of this rock as you can; weapon, carving tool etc.</li><li>Get on fancy cap. Tell yourself that it is scientifically proven that this cap will boost my creativity.</li><li>Do any creative task. </li></ol>

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