I don't know how you can come up with these diverse complicated subjects every day and always have an in-depth understanding of them. Highly intelligent and hardworking.
He doesn't come up with them. He reads science magazines and journals to find interesting news and studies. As far as his understanding and ability to present it, that's because he is smart and has a background in education.
@@infinitemonkey917 Sure, but in comparison Sabrine seems to struggle to come up with new things to talk about.. (and she's also doing the same, perhaps she's busier outside of YT)
Slime mold: Ok I re-designed Japans high speed rail lines, what’s next? Researchers: Ok, how does the cosmic web function? Slime Mold: Give me a few minutes. . 😂
Fun fact! The next time you walk by/through the forest, look for those little dried out yellow patches on nearby trees and brush. Those are slime molds! They can dry themselves out to survive long periods of time without water. If you pour a little water onto them, generally they'll revive in a matter of seconds!
*Halowaffle25* -- The next time you walk through the forest & you see yellow patches in the snow --------------- 100% --- those are NOT slime Molds --- 🤣
As a follow up experiment they need to send the slime mold to the international space station and see if it can recreate it in zero gravity. Edit: thanks for the feedback I was unaware of the experiment. There have been several fascinating experiments done with slime molds. One particularly fascinating when showed their ability to teach others of their own kind. The two individual molds physically linked and transferred something unknown which imparted the knowledge.
Hi Anton et al. As a programmer I have been looking for the shortest path routine quite a bit. The moulds seem to propagate uniformly and latch on to any food source they find; and then enhance that path, not unlike ants. Even though they look like they are clever, they actually sacrifice a lot of resources. Galaxies, on the other hand, are not biological yet the same reaper-mechanism seems to apply. So, and not trying to sell Buddhism pre se, things happen because they can. And thusly, I try to watch as much of your content as I can and see where it leads us.
I keep a Fuligo septica and Hypomyces chrysospermus growing on a Paragyrodon sphaerosporus. It has been about a year since I started the experiment and these two Fungi have Faught back and forth, but for the most part seem to be in balance with each other and continue to very slowly consume the rare bolete. As fall comes I plan to add an additional mushroom of the same species to see if they expand in some way or continue to keep the balance. Mycology is fun!
@@fspg3207 I might be on your side of the isle, but this is not the time or place. Let a positive comment about a positive thing be without... that. Slime Mold are amazing, although I hedge my bets on their predictive powers on something as vast as the universe. And, yes, thanks Anton.
Dark matter challenges our understanding of the universe's structure, while slime molds challenge our understanding of intelligence and problem-solving without centralized control.
It's biggest flaw is that this is the foolishness simulator theory believing type of individuals use to justify psychedelic use while living gender fluid life
@@m.pearce3273theory is the highest level in science. It’s not a theory per se, I think it’s more like conjecture, experiment will be provided and if repeatable and nobody can dispute the findings it remains not proven wrong .. not right, let’s leave that kind of thinking to the Arts. In science you can’t prove things right because doing so would mean you have ‘complete’ knowledge (hence the need for all seeing, all knowing god figures in religion). Science doesn’t buy into that, it’s either not been proven wrong yet, so it stands as theory or it is wrong by proof. Simply put, you cannot prove things right, only wrong.
The life cycle of slime mold also models the development of the brain. Very rapid expansion, period of pruning for efficiency and strengthening of pathways. Decay of structure.
Not just Biology, Computer Science, and Cosmology, but it'd be an extremely useful tool in discovering Astrophysics if cosmological observations prove the model!
Whoohooo! Slime mold! I fell in love with it in my first semester in college. Took botany, and slime mold won my heart. Coolest organism on earth. I knew I couldn't pass this one up. Thanks, Anton!
The slime mold has developed a system that works successfully to keep itself fed. Humans devise a system that works successfully to get them where they need to go. Both examples seem to follow the basic principles that the universe follows as it forms itself. Brains seem to be constructed in a similar fashion. Human math has reached a point where the process can be simulated. It seems as though we are on to something, and should keep doing research. Thank you Anton!
The fact that nature works in the same way on a micro vs macro scale is mind blowing! When humans work as a collective community, with the aid of technological accuracy, we too follow the same efficient pathways as the mold!!
Nice work Anton. This, slime mold forage food source mapping, is one of my favourite topics of interest. It overlays our 'field of interest' a neurological synapses pathway study. Lighting up our neural dendrites with rewards of serotonin, dopamine, melatonin and in cases of enhanced epiphany oxytocin revelation. Rooting out streamlined routes all interconnecting to a seeded consciousness or master 'mothership' of conductivity preset. Sublime relativity.
Seems to me like Curve's. A slime mold like's to form Bubbles on 3'd surfaces. Cosmic web could be a bunch of bubble curves from massive 4'd pressures. I guess that's what a parameter must look like from the inside of a program.
This means there is inherently something similar between the mold, the galaxy formation etc...which is fascinating, make you think about the nature of life
It demonstrates that humans are just part of nature in how we organise structures like cities and public transit. We are not in charge of ourselves separate from nature but are a part of it and determined by it.
So the universe developed like a slime mold---or the slime mold is a universe in itself. Amazing. I wish our mayor would use a slime mold experiment to improve traffic flow in Lima Peru, which has one of the worst traffic in the world.
Next time I meet my Uncle who can't read a map (while needling me because "Millennials can't live without their phones") I'll refer him to this video and point out that a single celled organism can get from A to B drawing it's own map.
Thank you! This is science at its most wondrous. That there is an organizing principle that transcends organic and inorganic matter.A quick survey indicates that it is able to solve basic choices of life.
So the slime mold, rather like roots of a plant, is alive as it spreads out toward food sources in its environment; while the cosmic web, rather like a spider's web, is the residue of dead or dying galaxies and dark matter, strung together in empty space by gravity? That seems rather sad to me because I've always thought of the cosmic web as "rivers of galaxies" throughout the cosmos full of stars (and maybe life). On the other hand, perhaps we are very fortunate that the Milky Way (and its satellite and neighbor galaxies) is in the middle of small void in the local universe.
How counter intuitive. Galaxies in areas with lots of gas aren’t as active as galaxies in gas sparse areas. You think the gas would fuel star formation and a lack of it would prevent star formation.
I was in Seattle on the tragic day he got hurt. There were about six plays defensive plays and he was involved in almost all of them, all over the place.
This is to be expected if you follow the classic law of mysticism, “As above, so below.” Everything is based off of patterns, it’s no surprise to see them repeated in all levels of the universe
The Cosmic Web is an intergalactic highway of the most efficient travel routes connecting each active area to the next but those who know it refer to it as The Interweb, or the Whole Wide Web and its abbreviation. The Interconnect is another but shortened to The Internect or just The Nect.
Excellent use of common sense, I wondered how long it would take for some one to map the filaments after seeing the Tokyo experiment years ago. Brilliant, looking forward to seeing how this experiment grows and their results!
Imagine every speck of mold is their own universe. With such infinite, tiny galaxies that we cannot see them with any instruments. Each with their own laws of physics and nature. And within each micro galaxy, every speck of mold is another universe... Invisible to their instruments. And so on and so on, and turtles all the way down. No topside. No bottom. All happening in the eye of original awareness. Instantly. But expanding time within each spec to a relative infinity. And infinities within infinities. Make sure to get all your back-to-school shopping done, guys! 😂
i think spin and rot, are like a combo set, dial up a spacetime config just with combos of those variables. and they will determine world size, shape, geography (meant geometry) , and local phscyis...to some extent. the OS and fields takes care of the rest. So i see it as a private room in a big online chat system, one is still using part of the base OS system, but has a local configuration to some extent. So rot and spin can be seen a world template settings.
Some day, in the future, after civilisations fall. Someone will uncover a harddrive of Anton videos. And cause a golden age of science and friendly people. 😋
Reminds me of psychedelic magazines where the universe is portrayed as a mycelium structure to which we are actually integrated in "higher" dimensions 😂
I think slime molds are like river valley. They take the path of least resistance which is often the most efficient way to proceed? I merely point out a natural process might be involved, perhaps?
Yeah, I don't see how they came to the conclusion that it creates the most efficient path. You can clearly see that it is randomly sending out tendrils 'looking' for a source of nutrition and how it often grew right past it before encountering it and often grew into area where there was none. Then when it found a source it strengthened its connection to that and let the tendrils that found nothing die off. If it was efficient it would have grown straight towards the food source.
I guess, given time, all the paths that link get over or underused, thus creating the illusion of perfect predictive efficiency. It better resembles the work of a learning system similar to how Neural networks are often used. Kinda funny how both processes are mostly not understoood.
The slime mold doesn't do a thing but follow a simple ruleset. It's job is to go out and find more food. the lines you see are superhighways for food to be ferreted along to the further body parts to feed them. Simply it's the job of the mold to feed it's body, much like our veins feed our bodies. There must be a gradient between the body on opposite sides. If there is no flow differential it will be dead in both star creation and life unless that life thrives on decay and low energy flows. But if there is a bifilar flow it will generate stars and grow it's dusty body and prosper. It's all a fractal and hence how they could put slime molds together with the cosmic web out there, *Points up to the sky* , and see how it works. There is an old saying "As above So below". One is the mirror of the other.
Anton covered the Slime Molds modelling the Tokyo Subway a while back and I am pretty sure that I read one comment that went, "next the slime mold will map hyperspace lanes in the Galaxy"....well, I guess they did a lot more than just one galaxy...
I had the same idea many years ago after watching a slime mold video for the first time but I'm no scientist so I couldn't make any experiment...Anyway, the slime mold discovery was mind-blowing for me too...
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I don't know how you can come up with these diverse complicated subjects every day and always have an in-depth understanding of them. Highly intelligent and hardworking.
This is one of the reasons a lot of us consider him to be an exceptionally wonderful person.
He doesn't come up with them. He reads science magazines and journals to find interesting news and studies. As far as his understanding and ability to present it, that's because he is smart and has a background in education.
It is all out there on the internet for free, but people are just too lazy to find it.
@@infinitemonkey917 Sure, but in comparison Sabrine seems to struggle to come up with new things to talk about.. (and she's also doing the same, perhaps she's busier outside of YT)
@@conjurermast Sabrine is also very transphobic and arrogant
It's a shame H.P. Lovecraft never got to hear about this.
Slime mold: Ok I re-designed Japans high speed rail lines, what’s next?
Researchers: Ok, how does the cosmic web function?
Slime Mold: Give me a few minutes. .
😂
I bet they could use it for that micromouse robot maze competition in Japan...
This is so funny and true. 😂
Slime mold, internal monologue, "Fools.... I AM THE COSMIC WEB!! MUWAH HA HA HA!!"
Slime mold: Hold my beer.
Researcher: think we can get it to map all the neurons in a human brain?
Fun fact! The next time you walk by/through the forest, look for those little dried out yellow patches on nearby trees and brush. Those are slime molds! They can dry themselves out to survive long periods of time without water. If you pour a little water onto them, generally they'll revive in a matter of seconds!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
Fun fact! By the time you walk into the forest, the mold knows you're there.
*Halowaffle25* -- The next time you walk through the forest & you see yellow patches in the snow --------------- 100% --- those are NOT slime Molds --- 🤣
@@PaxAlotin-j6r not lemon sno-cones?!
@@vapormissileMike wozokosski?
Sagan upadated: "We are made of Star Slime."
As a follow up experiment they need to send the slime mold to the international space station and see if it can recreate it in zero gravity.
Edit: thanks for the feedback I was unaware of the experiment. There have been several fascinating experiments done with slime molds. One particularly fascinating when showed their ability to teach others of their own kind. The two individual molds physically linked and transferred something unknown which imparted the knowledge.
It would be interesting to see if absent gravity, it could self assemble in 3d networks, without requiring a lattice to grow on.
To me anyway.
The slime mold might integrate itself into the command computer and take control of the station and start making demands.
We can only hope
@@n0gulag that would be THE best case scenario, for everyone except those on the ship.
@@n0gulag It's very self-sufficient, not demanding at all. Entirely non-human.
I will share this with people who hate learning about space and sciences.
Same
It gets past people's barriers better, because of his wonderful demeanor. It give a +2 versus fuddy-duddies.
do they like using their smart phones?
I share your frustration, but 'one can take a horse to water, but one can't make it drink'.
@@bobrussell3602 spiritual blindness
Hi Anton et al.
As a programmer I have been looking for the shortest path routine quite a bit.
The moulds seem to propagate uniformly and latch on to any food source they find; and then enhance that path, not unlike ants.
Even though they look like they are clever, they actually sacrifice a lot of resources.
Galaxies, on the other hand, are not biological yet the same reaper-mechanism seems to apply.
So, and not trying to sell Buddhism pre se, things happen because they can.
And thusly, I try to watch as much of your content as I can and see where it leads us.
I keep a Fuligo septica and Hypomyces chrysospermus growing on a Paragyrodon sphaerosporus. It has been about a year since I started the experiment and these two Fungi have Faught back and forth, but for the most part seem to be in balance with each other and continue to very slowly consume the rare bolete. As fall comes I plan to add an additional mushroom of the same species to see if they expand in some way or continue to keep the balance. Mycology is fun!
slime molds are totally fascinating! Thanks, Anton, for creating this video. 😊
@@fspg3207 😄😄
@@fspg3207 I might be on your side of the isle, but this is not the time or place.
Let a positive comment about a positive thing be without... that.
Slime Mold are amazing, although I hedge my bets on their predictive powers on something as vast as the universe.
And, yes, thanks Anton.
Fungi mycelium are very similar. Amazing how the universe is interconnected from the smallest to the largest structures.
As above, so below
Dark matter challenges our understanding of the universe's structure, while slime molds challenge our understanding of intelligence and problem-solving without centralized control.
It's only still a theory and it's hight flawed as it's all still just plasma and dust
It's biggest flaw is that this is the foolishness simulator theory believing type of individuals use to justify psychedelic use while living gender fluid life
Dark matter is a complete lie & total BS
@@m.pearce3273theory is the highest level in science. It’s not a theory per se, I think it’s more like conjecture, experiment will be provided and if repeatable and nobody can dispute the findings it remains not proven wrong .. not right, let’s leave that kind of thinking to the Arts. In science you can’t prove things right because doing so would mean you have ‘complete’ knowledge (hence the need for all seeing, all knowing god figures in religion). Science doesn’t buy into that, it’s either not been proven wrong yet, so it stands as theory or it is wrong by proof. Simply put, you cannot prove things right, only wrong.
Wormholes linkig areas of gravity and closing to fast for light ti get through explain everything seen with Dark Matter
This is the quickest Ive watched a video before it was released and I'm so happy
The life cycle of slime mold also models the development of the brain. Very rapid expansion, period of pruning for efficiency and strengthening of pathways. Decay of structure.
Imagine if we could use it to make better AI's
Everything is linked. Slime mould, the Mandelbrot Set and quantum mechanics. The very large and the very small are in essence identical.
I’m sure this is a view of fractal gone large
It’s as if there are clues written into the fabric of it.
Or at the very least a very interesting case for As Above, So Below.
These networks look like they could apply to neurons in the brain also. Everything is connected way more than we truly know. Pretty fascinating stuff
The universe is a brain. Life = the thoughts of the universe
Thoughts : Brain :: Life : Universe
This is my theory 😁
As above, so below.
As within, so without.
@@nicholasleemarks I think so as well. The cosmic web closely resembles what I observed during my NDE. I'm intrigued by the similarity.
@@ABC-po6be I take your NDE back from you, you may no longer yap about it on the internet
@@vectorequilibrium4493 preach brother
Not just Biology, Computer Science, and Cosmology, but it'd be an extremely useful tool in discovering Astrophysics if cosmological observations prove the model!
Plus human geography and urban planning.
I welcome our wonderful Slime Mold Overlords.
Whoohooo! Slime mold! I fell in love with it in my first semester in college. Took botany, and slime mold won my heart. Coolest organism on earth. I knew I couldn't pass this one up. Thanks, Anton!
As above so below.
Who would have thought that a slime mold can teach us about the universe. Thanks for another great video Anton!
More importantly, who would have thought we'd have to ask the slime mold to teach us. 🤣
...a calm way to learn cool things...thank you❤
"As above, so below."
As within so without
I love how they ignore that the universe looks like a giant neural network, but are okay with the slime mold comparison. Emotional cowards.
@jaz4742 so what's sitting in our brains wondering if the universe is solely comprised of their planet being circled they their tiny star?
Thanks!
Can't handle the voice.
Please get a professional narrator.
The slime mold has developed a system that works successfully to keep itself fed. Humans devise a system that works successfully to get them where they need to go. Both examples seem to follow the basic principles that the universe follows as it forms itself. Brains seem to be constructed in a similar fashion. Human math has reached a point where the process can be simulated.
It seems as though we are on to something, and should keep doing research. Thank you Anton!
Fractals organized chaos
what chaos?
Life is Fractal.... yea!
@@thehellyousayentropy
Just not big enough to see patterns/the whole picture I assume is the case, or perhaps your right.
I almost forgot how marvellous these creatures are! Thanks Anton :)
The fact that nature works in the same way on a micro vs macro scale is mind blowing! When humans work as a collective community, with the aid of technological accuracy, we too follow the same efficient pathways as the mold!!
There are no words to describe how much I love your channel
Nice work Anton.
This, slime mold forage food source mapping, is one of my favourite topics of interest.
It overlays our 'field of interest' a neurological synapses pathway study.
Lighting up our neural dendrites with rewards of serotonin, dopamine, melatonin and in cases of enhanced epiphany oxytocin revelation.
Rooting out streamlined routes all interconnecting to a seeded consciousness or master 'mothership' of conductivity preset.
Sublime relativity.
The twist: We are actually quarks and the universe is actually slime mold.
Another awesome video on slime molds! 😎🌌🍄🧬
This points towards everything being connected, I mean everything!
Intelligent design.
@@vectorequilibrium4493 Or a universal process!
Or everything is just one thing
9:32 never gets old
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 👍😎
The algorithm reflects living expansion at all scales.
Interdisciplinary study often yelds great results... Thank you Anton
The illustration suggests a massive 🧠 brain, to me.
THANK yOU!
Blew my mind again, Anton!
Seems to me like Curve's. A slime mold like's to form Bubbles on 3'd surfaces. Cosmic web could be a bunch of bubble curves from massive 4'd pressures. I guess that's what a parameter must look like from the inside of a program.
This means there is inherently something similar between the mold, the galaxy formation etc...which is fascinating, make you think about the nature of life
For me, it just confirms physics
It demonstrates that humans are just part of nature in how we organise structures like cities and public transit. We are not in charge of ourselves separate from nature but are a part of it and determined by it.
Slime mold is attracted to food, and matter is attracted to matter (by gravity). Is this what you mean by "inherently similar?"
@@brothermine2292 Both are energy systems dissipating energy.
>coweatsman : So what? You too are an "energy system dissipating energy." So is your dishwasher. So is nearly everything more complex than an atom.
Well done Anton. I learned something new, so, thanks.
So the universe developed like a slime mold---or the slime mold is a universe in itself. Amazing. I wish our mayor would use a slime mold experiment to improve traffic flow in Lima Peru, which has one of the worst traffic in the world.
As above, so below - randomness is alive.
Intelligent design.
Next time I meet my Uncle who can't read a map (while needling me because "Millennials can't live without their phones") I'll refer him to this video and point out that a single celled organism can get from A to B drawing it's own map.
The mycelial Network 🖖🏼
The thing that allows trees to talk to each other.
Oooh smart couzin - me read that 'Organism' ""wrong"" - but never disappointed
You talk about the most frikken amazing subjects......thank you ...for being you .
The macro/micro pattern reminds me of the Mandelbrot thingy
Thank you! This is science at its most wondrous. That there is an organizing principle that transcends organic and inorganic matter.A quick survey indicates that it is able to solve basic choices of life.
I saw "slime" and knew it was for me.
We need a slime mold experiment in 0 gravity
Slime mold a fractal for the Cosmic Web 🤔
So the slime mold, rather like roots of a plant, is alive as it spreads out toward food sources in its environment; while the cosmic web, rather like a spider's web, is the residue of dead or dying galaxies and dark matter, strung together in empty space by gravity? That seems rather sad to me because I've always thought of the cosmic web as "rivers of galaxies" throughout the cosmos full of stars (and maybe life). On the other hand, perhaps we are very fortunate that the Milky Way (and its satellite and neighbor galaxies) is in the middle of small void in the local universe.
The fractal nature of the universe is wild.
How counter intuitive. Galaxies in areas with lots of gas aren’t as active as galaxies in gas sparse areas. You think the gas would fuel star formation and a lack of it would prevent star formation.
Thank you Anton.
You had me at slime mold.
What an amazing video! Thanks for your work.
imagine a mirror situation: slime mold making video about humans: "it turns out they are capable of building optimal networks!"
Did you ever attend school in Arizona? You remind me of a guy that helped me with my math homework; really nice guy and very smart. And good teacher.
I was in Seattle on the tragic day he got hurt. There were about six plays defensive plays and he was involved in almost all of them, all over the place.
Every day you come out with an amazing video. You are AWESOME!!!
Always thought of fractal geometry as jagged, never thought about it being slimy as well.
Much love bro
Thank you
Aaaah a perennial favorite: myxomycophyta, the TRUE slime molds
What's crazy is that slime created pathways that mimicked Tokyo ALMOST perfectly. That means Tokyo was engineered almost perfectly 😮
No, that's definitely not what that means
It could mean that the most brilliant minds in road and traffic engineering can be just as good as this particular mold
I like trains. _(gets run over)_
that was awesome I love creation
This is to be expected if you follow the classic law of mysticism, “As above, so below.” Everything is based off of patterns, it’s no surprise to see them repeated in all levels of the universe
"I'm not a bad slime" "slurp"
Thank you for this awesome video!
The Cosmic Web is an intergalactic highway of the most efficient travel routes connecting each active area to the next but those who know it refer to it as The Interweb, or the Whole Wide Web and its abbreviation. The Interconnect is another but shortened to The Internect or just The Nect.
Excellent use of common sense, I wondered how long it would take for some one to map the filaments after seeing the Tokyo experiment years ago. Brilliant, looking forward to seeing how this experiment grows and their results!
So, in other words, the same being that created mold also created the universe!
I don’t believe. I know. Carl Jung.
The cosmic web is a neuro structure that closely mimics the human mind.
Imagine every speck of mold is their own universe. With such infinite, tiny galaxies that we cannot see them with any instruments. Each with their own laws of physics and nature. And within each micro galaxy, every speck of mold is another universe... Invisible to their instruments. And so on and so on, and turtles all the way down. No topside. No bottom. All happening in the eye of original awareness. Instantly. But expanding time within each spec to a relative infinity. And infinities within infinities.
Make sure to get all your back-to-school shopping done, guys! 😂
Day 27 of asking Anton to bring back What Da Math as a separate series on the channel
i think spin and rot, are like a combo set, dial up a spacetime config just with combos of those variables. and they will determine world size, shape, geography (meant geometry) , and local phscyis...to some extent. the OS and fields takes care of the rest. So i see it as a private room in a big online chat system, one is still using part of the base OS system, but has a local configuration to some extent. So rot and spin can be seen a world template settings.
Some day, in the future, after civilisations fall. Someone will uncover a harddrive of Anton videos. And cause a golden age of science and friendly people. 😋
not gonna be surprised if slime mold the most widespread form of life in Universe
It uses a primitive form of FIT/GML to compute (uses Actin G instead of MTs).
Reminds me of psychedelic magazines where the universe is portrayed as a mycelium structure to which we are actually integrated in "higher" dimensions 😂
Incredible. Thanks! ❤
Fantastic video Anton
I like to think that all the inventions and gadgets we have were inspired at some point by simply observing nature.
I think slime molds are like river valley.
They take the path of least resistance which is often the most efficient way to proceed?
I merely point out a natural process might be involved, perhaps?
Yeah, I don't see how they came to the conclusion that it creates the most efficient path. You can clearly see that it is randomly sending out tendrils 'looking' for a source of nutrition and how it often grew right past it before encountering it and often grew into area where there was none. Then when it found a source it strengthened its connection to that and let the tendrils that found nothing die off. If it was efficient it would have grown straight towards the food source.
I guess, given time, all the paths that link get over or underused, thus creating the illusion of perfect predictive efficiency.
It better resembles the work of a learning system similar to how Neural networks are often used. Kinda funny how both processes are mostly not understoood.
Awesome as always my friend
Anton. As above, so below. s bellow so above. That little gem has come down from beyond the 12,000 Younger Dryas catacyslm.
Makes me feel bad eating all those slime molds in NetHack
"My, what a yummy slime mold!" -Comment from _Rogue_
The Worlds first organic computer: Slime Mould
This is so very clever. go slime!! I knew you cold ooze it!
The slime mold doesn't do a thing but follow a simple ruleset. It's job is to go out and find more food. the lines you see are superhighways for food to be ferreted along to the further body parts to feed them. Simply it's the job of the mold to feed it's body, much like our veins feed our bodies. There must be a gradient between the body on opposite sides. If there is no flow differential it will be dead in both star creation and life unless that life thrives on decay and low energy flows. But if there is a bifilar flow it will generate stars and grow it's dusty body and prosper.
It's all a fractal and hence how they could put slime molds together with the cosmic web out there, *Points up to the sky* , and see how it works. There is an old saying "As above So below". One is the mirror of the other.
I knew it! Slime mold rules!
Hello wonderful slime mold
Thanks for sharing❤❤
Anton covered the Slime Molds modelling the Tokyo Subway a while back and I am pretty sure that I read one comment that went, "next the slime mold will map hyperspace lanes in the Galaxy"....well, I guess they did a lot more than just one galaxy...
I had the same idea many years ago after watching a slime mold video for the first time but I'm no scientist so I couldn't make any experiment...Anyway, the slime mold discovery was mind-blowing for me too...