We finally figured out why 2,000-year-old Roman concrete survives in seawater while our modern concrete crumbles in decades. The Romans used "hot mixing" with lime clasts. When the concrete cracks and rainwater seeps in, it dissolves the lime, recrystallizes it into the cracks, and literally heals itself. We need to start building like this again.
🚨Jason Padgett: the accidental savant who says he can see the geometric code behind reality.
After a brutal attack in 2002, Padgett developed acquired savant syndrome and began seeing the world in intricate geometric and fractal patterns.
Movement became sequences of geometric “snapshots.” Water, light, and ordinary objects seemed to reveal mathematical structures hiding beneath everyday perception.
Today, he makes hundreds of videos explaining his ideas about the nature of reality, including his theory of Quantum Information Holography (QIH)—the idea that the universe may be fundamentally connected to information, light, geometry, and holographic projection.
What happens when your perception of reality changes so radically that you start trying to reverse-engineer the universe from what you see?