In Jungian psychology, the term psychic death refers to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity." In death and rebirth mythology, ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition , as described by Joseph Campbell in his research on the mythology of the Hero's Journey . It is a recurrent theme in world mythology and is also used as a metaphor in some strands of contemporary western thinking. The term strangeness was established before the discovery of quarks to explain differing rates of reaction when strange particles were produced and when they decayed. Strangeness (S) is a quantum number assigned to particles. Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. He is the father of Symmetry an...