Thanks Jonathan.

You had written about carbon, something, which is interesting. Hope we can continue where we ended once.

Thanks Harri.

I have thought about imaginary numbers quite a bit. A wonderful essay, I have downloaded to read again.

Ulla.

Ulla

I know the feeling. I started in the middle, then moved to number one position for one day, then slammed back to the middle, only to rise to fith place again, then slammed back to the middle for contest conclusion. There was one point when I reached out, asking people if they would read my essay. Bad idea. They punished me for it.

Its not a pure contest. There is plenty of strategising beyond merely writing of a good essay.

The FQXi system wouldnt let me rate other peoples essays in the final days of the contest. This also happened to me last year. it became clear to me this year, that if I was unable to give people what they prospectively wanted, that is to say "a reciprocal read and rate of each others essays" then they were much less likely to read my essay. I was handicapped in my ability to engage with others in a fashion that could draw traffic and votes to my essay. Frustrating to go to all that work, then be disadvantaged by FQXi's system failure in the final days.

I sent them a letter about it both years, but havent had a response to date.

Steve

There were much fluxes up and down. Some of the top essays were truly bad sometimes also, which arise many ??? What are the criterias really? It makes the whole competition questionable.

My Place became 29th, and it is ok, but I Think it should have been better. I am unknown, maybe one reason? Many more famous people get a much better result with a bad essay hastily done. Mine required so much efforts, mainly to fit the criterias of the essay Contest. Maybe work done in vain? It would be a better essay if it could be a bit longer. I had the same feeling last year. Must try to remember that.

Also I don't want to treat others in a way I don't want to be treated myself. I tried to give a reasonable fair vote. My aim was to be a finalist.

There are also truly good essays here.

Ulla Mattfolk.

12 days later

I must add some links about 'magneticitry', transport of packages of magnetic force.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.0480.pdf

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/magnetricity-spin-ice/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrMAFGVNE84

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_T._Bramwell

Spin ice are asymmetric, aperiodic, only longitudinal transfer...

Ulla.

More facts: Depletion of CLAMP leads to the loss of PCP protein asymmetry, defects in cilia polarity, and defects in the angle of cell division. Additionally, depletion of CLAMP leads to a loss of the atypical cadherin-like molecule Celrs2, suggesting that CLAMP facilitates the stabilization of junctional interactions responsible for proper PCP protein localization. Depletion of CLAMP also affects the polarized organization of MTs. We hypothesize that CLAMP facilitates the establishment of cell polarity and promotes the asymmetric accumulation of MTs downstream of the establishment of proper PCP. http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2018/03/06/jcb.201706058

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