It was typical of yosegaki hinomaru, which were given to young men setting off to war by their communities. There are numerous accounts of Allied soldiers taking such flags from the bodies of dead Japanese troops as souvenirs. In recent years, hundreds of yosegaki hinomaru have been returned to families, often in highly emotional circumstances, through the work of the Obon Society, a charity dedicated to peace and reconciliation.
The young film-maker wrote letters to people of the same name in the town, local officials and a nearby shrine. But the mystery of how Devine acquired the flag was still to be unravelled, and a few further twists were yet to come. The minute film is the first Pritchard has made since graduating from the University of the Arts in London.
People from university helped me out. Spooky tunnels. The realm of quantum physics is, at times, bizarre and confusing. It contains a number of principles that defy logic; like quantum tunnelling, where a particle is able to penetrate ghostlike through a solid object.
This is when two particles form a connection across an unknown distance, which could be a millimetre or the width of a universe, and one of the particles can vanish from one area and reappear elsewhere.
This weird and wonderful world up-ends accepted scientific wisdom, creating obstacles to conventional thinking. Some have turned their backs on quantum theories that challenge accepted laws of physics. But despite — or maybe because of — its unusual aspects, quantum physics is improving our understanding of the natural world, to a point where some of these theories can no longer be overlooked. And the emerging field of quantum biology could be the key to explaining the previously inexplicable.
If bacteria are confirmed to exhibit quantum effects, it would form the first evidence of interplay between macroscopic organic matter and the subatomic quantum world. What about photosynthesis? A number of studies have linked a quantum reaction with the process of photosynthesis. Plant cells collect light particles, which release energy-gathering particles called excitons.
The excitons carry the energy to the reaction centre, where it is turned into chemical energy and metabolized by the plant. Everything happens in a billionth of a second to avoid losing heat, and with complete accuracy. In a experiment, biophysicist Greg Engel showed that excitons undergo a quantum reaction called superposition, where particles can exist in two places at once and in two states — a particle and a wave.
Engel, a professor at the University of Chicago and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, found that excitons can travel as a wave and feel out all possible routes to the reaction centre, identifying the most efficient one to take. So how do birds migrate? At the younger end, two fables throw their arms around tree trunks. What ensues is a magic realist sequence of linked tales in which various species give up their secrets to Olive, so she emerges strong enough to defend them all.
But the forest has been ravaged and the task seems impossible until she, too, falls into a swoon and meets some chatty trees.
Toby, whose parents have freshly split, wanders into this strange, burning kingdom chasing a cat through a tunnel. Everything is falling apart in this autocracy plagued by floods and earthquakes as well as fire.
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