Scientists Create Near-Living Crystal by joey-cryptoboy

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Scientists Create Near-Living Crystal

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We know that crystals have been proven to store information, harness the energy of consciousness, have many technological functions, and contain silicon and carbon - the building blocks of life. The also possess energetic qualities that have promoted healing and emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. They have been used throughout history as a conduit between the world of life (as we know it) and inanimate matter, but the life-like properties of crystals may be more literal than previously thought.

Physicists at NYC University have this month published the results of their experiment on the lifelike behaviours of a newly-synthesized chemical compound. Taking hematite (a compound of iron and oxygen) as the particle basis, they added a spherical polymer coat.

Leaving a corner of the hematite particle exposed and subjecting the compound to blue light, the particles began moving, breaking apart and reforming in a ‘lifelike’ manner. The physicists have uploaded this clip displaying the behaviour of the “light-activated colloidal surfers.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch…

The particles aren't truly alive -- but they're not far off, either. Exposed to light and fed by chemicals, they form crystals that move, break apart and form again. "There is a blurry frontier between active and alive," said biophysicist Jérémie Palacci of New York University. One of the physicists involved, Chaikin acknowledges that a definition of life is a difficult one to make.

He comments that one definition of life is possessing metabolism, the ability to self-replicate and the ability to move and that the ‘colloidal surfers’ satisfy two of these criteria. They lack only the ability to self-replicate.

Spirit Science on crystals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pYAiRqhio

http://myscienceacademy.org/…/scientists-create-near-livin…/

http://www.wired.co.uk/ne…/archive/2013-02/…/living-crystals

"Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers." By Jeremie Palacci, Stefano Sacanna, Asher Preska Steinberg, David J. Pine, Paul M. Chaikin. Science, Vol. 339 No. 6119, 1 February 2013.

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