What Confederate offers, Mr. Jacobs said, is an object that will last a lifetime actually, several lifetimes, an indestructible heirloom, timeless and indefatigable and so, in its way, immortal.

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The brain generates what is known as a P300, or P3, signal involuntarily, each time it recognizes an object.

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Employing this unique process provides a similar sense of depth, texture and perspective to what people experience when looking directly at an object for a lifelike viewing experience where everything is in sharper focus.

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It is sort of the dying embers of what we think was a very luminous and powerful event in an object right next to this ghost.

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