That's not what they are saying. The critical exponent is a well understood physical property in thermodynamics. What they showed here is the model they have for the brain looks similar to a thermodynamical model of a phase transition, even though they can't identify the specific characteristics of the distinct phases.
It is an intriguing paper, and may hint that the brain is actually bridging some new, exotic kind of energy or matter than we haven't yet identified. There is still so much we don't understand about the true nature of our universe, and these kinds of early experiments are exactly what led to breakthroughs like quantum mechanics.
Things that you can mathematically describe, but make no conventional sense.
That's not what they are saying. The critical exponent is a well understood physical property in thermodynamics. What they showed here is the model they have for the brain looks similar to a thermodynamical model of a phase transition, even though they can't identify the specific characteristics of the distinct phases.
It is an intriguing paper, and may hint that the brain is actually bridging some new, exotic kind of energy or matter than we haven't yet identified. There is still so much we don't understand about the true nature of our universe, and these kinds of early experiments are exactly what led to breakthroughs like quantum mechanics.
Things that you can mathematically describe, but make no conventional sense.