What is it about?
Surrealism is a means of artistic expression that places automatism at the root of creation, and it has pursued thought that is entirely free of any preconceived notions or restraints. Art and science are seemingly incompatible with each other—one is emotional, the other rational—but here the author would like to consider the sort of thinking that could emerge if science met surrealism halfway. The author would also like to present the Yoshida effect, a physical phenomenon that was chanced upon serendipitously in which microbiology approaches surrealism.
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Why is it important?
The Yoshida effect is the formation of a fusion body called a penetron when bacterial cells collide with a nano-sized acicular (needle-shaped) material in a hydrogel friction field. The penetron as an intermediate was applied to the finely detection method of asbestos, and gene transformation method by plasmid DNA.
Perspectives
Surrealism is an artistic form that developed in the 1920s. The assertion of Surrealism tends to be misunderstood as an unreality beyond reality, but in fact, it refers to reality that has been taken to excess, or super-reality. The surrealist artists aimed to create a greater, more profound surrealism by mixing reality and dreams. In his 1924 “Surrealist Manifesto,” the writer André Breton defined surrealism: “Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation”
Richard (Ricky) Smith Jr.
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This page is a summary of: A New Physical Phenomenon Discovered When Microbiology Meets Surrealism: The Yoshida Effect has the Power to Fuse Bacteria and Nano-Acicular Materials, IgMin Research, July 2024, IgMin Publications Inc.,
DOI: 10.61927/igmin233.
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