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Hi Tony.
Is this Crsytal clear for you? Did ancient times develop natural petri dishes? Or was life started
as or from crystal? Was it the vibrational communication or information from the Creative Force acting through or on
the crystalline structure of mica? JohnV
Hi John!
Yes indeed; life began as crystals and the scriptural 'clay' (as carbon) is the appropriate metaphor.
The extract following your article gives tenatative theoretical support for Helen Greenwood.
Behind the Scenes:
Granny Says Life Evolved Between the Mica Sheets
posted: 14 March 2008 ET
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science
Foundation.
I have a passion for mica. This passion
led me, in my 62nd year and almost a grandmother, to develop a hypothesis for the origins of life.
"Develop a hypothesis" is what I've been doing in
the last many months, but the original inspiration came when I had not a scientific thought in my head. I was
bent over the dissecting microscope in my apartment in Virginia, near the National Science Foundation, splitting mica into
thin sheets to arrange around some crystals grown from a Smithsonian crystal-growing kit. As I looked at the
bits of green algae and brown crud at the edges of the mica sheets, I thought, "This would be a good place for life to originate!"
My hypothesis is that life originated between thin
sheets of mica rocks, which provided many separate spaces for prebiotic molecules to evolve, sometimes in isolation from each
other and sometimes in association with each other, as they oozed around within and between sheets. The energy
needed for life to evolve from non-living molecules might have come simply from the sun and the waves.
The mica hypothesis says that life developed as
a `sandwich filling' in mica `sandwiches' in the prebiotic `soup,' or, as: `life between the sheets.' This contrasts
with the `pizza', clay, and vesicle hypotheses, in which life originated on the surfaces of earth's mineral crust, in clay
particles, or in lipid vesicles. There are also `RNA World' and `Metabolism First' hypotheses. My
hypothesis says that RNA and proteins and metabolic chemistries could all have evolved between the mica sheets and then combined
and emerged, coated with lipid membranes, as primitive cells.
My passion for mica came from my research in biological
Atomic Force Microscopy, for almost 20 years now, starting soon after the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) was invented in 1986. The AFM
feels a surface by raster-scanning a tiny tip across the surface, with a sensitivity so fine that it can feel even bare DNA molecules on a flat surface. The flat surface we use is mica, a layered mineral with atomically flat sheets that can be
peeled off with adhesive tape to expose a clean surface.
Maybe you are now asking, "How can you see bare
DNA molecules on the mica when you said there was algae and crud on it?" The mica we use for AFM samples is high
grade mica, free of bubbles and other defects. The mica that inspired my hypothesis for the origins of life came
from an abandoned mica mine in a Connecticut state park, where my brother Jim had taken some of us for a hike the previous
summer. It had lots of bubbles and defects.
Theories and Hypotheses
Why do I call my idea a `Hypothesis'?
People use words in many ways, but one of the strengths of science is that it tries to use words in precisely defined
ways. Theories are much stronger than Hypotheses. A Hypothesis is a starting point in the scientific
method, while a Theory is the result of much research and testing. Once there were also scientific Laws, but
now we know that even Newton's Laws are not totally correct. Therefore, newer scientists such as Charles Darwin call their well-tested ideas `Theories' instead of `Laws'. My idea is only a Hypothesis, ready for testing,
by me and hopefully by many others in the scientific community.
How Discoveries are Made
Dan Koshland, a famous biochemist, wrote that there
are three ways discoveries are made: Charge, Challenge, or Chance. He calls this the `Cha-Cha-Cha Theory of Scientific
Discovery'. Louis Pasteur said that Chance favors the prepared mind. I think mine was a `Chance'
discovery, by a mind prepared by decades of diverse education and research in biochemistry, chemistry, cell biology, biophysics,
nanoscience and materials science. Koshland, and Einstein before him, said that the process of discovery seems to be the same in science and in other areas. Therefore
we are all making discoveries in the same ways, whatever our areas of knowledge.
Discoveries range from small to earth-shaking. I
wonder which kind the mica hypothesis will be: a big one that gets into textbooks some day or a small one that falls into
oblivion. I'll get some clues about this when I attend the Origin-of-Life Gordon Research Conference next week
and share my hypothesis with people who have worked in the field for years or decades.
Tony B. commentary: (dialogue between two
fictitious scientists, Logan the cosmologist and Robert the particle physicist):
Robert Sceptico: "I know what you are getting at, Logan, the classification of the kingdoms in the 'Tree
of Life', starting with the archaeons."
Logan Antico: "Indeed, we find an explosion of lifeforms in fauna and
flora in the order of six kingdoms.
The oldest lifeform is called Archaea, which are anaerobic microorganisms with
a single chromosome and whose inhabitats include deep sea vents, hot spring geysers, the Dead Sea saltplains, the Antarctic
ice, volcanoes and refuse tips, including radioactive waste dumps.
Archaea are so 4 billion years old, dating to an era in terrestrial evolution, when oxygen was not found
in any large quantities on the planet.
Archaea split into two forms of prokaryotic lifeforms; cyanophyta and bacteria in
the kingdom called Monera.
Prokaryotes, meaning 'before kernels', have no enclosed nucleus for the DNA and also
lack DNA in organelles, such as mitochondria, the energy storage vessels in the cell.
Through the process of cellular symbiosis,
prokaryotes assembled to become eukaryotes, meaning 'true kernels'; some prokaryotes transforming into specialised nuclei,
other organelles, such as mitochondria, chloroplasts or flagella.
So the unicellular
kingdom of Protista became the biological archagent to reunite the RNA/DNA molecules on earth as a reflective medium
for the omniversal lifeforce through the selection pressure of the force of evolution and as a consequence of the consciousness
seeking biological entities.
Unicellular entities then repeated the process to yield the three macrobiological kingdoms
of multicellular eukaryotes in the worlds of Plantae, Fungi and Animalia.
But where did the first archaea come from?
When one studies microorganisms under the microscope, one invariably finds shapes of geometry,
such as the five
regular Platonic Solids of the Tetrahedron, the Cube, the Octagon, the Dodecahedron and the Icosahedron.
Microorganisms are of a typical size of between 1/2 to 500 micrometres, with
a retrovirus, such as the HIV-AIDS virus of a size of so 200 nanometres, constituting a natural limit for the complexity of
the genome to allow selforganisation and genetic reproduction.
There must be enough space within the cellular
organism to house the nucleotidal chains to admit RNA-transcription for genetic reproduction; a nucleotidal link being so
25 nanometres long.
Some nanobacteria are virussized as the natural limit and we find here the quantum geometrical induction
of the EMMR as the 'life-giving' source for the crystalline-biovital interface.
The
chemical precursors for life are the Amino Acids, linking together in molecular chains of peptides and polypeptides to form
the proteins used to construct the biological bodies.
It is found, that amino acids found in nature are predominantly lefthanded
or L-enantiomated or what we can term an anticlockwise spindirection or chirality.
In DNA and RNA, only righthanded or dextro-enantiomated sugars give rise to the righthandedness of the helical molecular
structure however.
The biochemistry of life so favours, and is dependent upon, lefthanded proteins and righthanded sugars."
Robert Sceptico: "And that symmetry violation in the 'Code of Life' then is mirrored in a parity
violation in the Unified Field of Quantum Relativity or UFoQR, where a lefthanded fieldparticle called the RMP or RestmassPhoton
neutralises the righthandedness of the Ess-Antiphoton and relating to a
Higgs-Bosonic
Restmass-Induction or HBRMI."
Logan Antico: "Well, so the righthanded DNA/RNA helix is quantum geometrically
linked in its scaling to the unified field, as it must be.
The lefthanded organic amino acids so become 'lifeinduced' via
the RMP through and by the 'awareness force' from the Newtonian extension.
Righthanded, but inorganic amino acids carry a nonactivated 'awareness centre' in the absence of the
DNA/RNA helix and the complementary coupling with the RMP is unnecessary to satisfy the unified field equations, effected
in the monopolic electricity, which constitutes the 'lifeforce'.
In terms of the geometry however, the quantum geometry of clay crystals is the first step to life.
The pentagonal
symmetry of the prespacetime algorithm can be represented in a Penrose tiling of both longrange translational and longrange
rotational symmetry.
A tiling pattern of rhombuses with 72 and 108 degrees, paired to rhombuses of 36 and 144 degrees can also be found
in quasicrystals of fivefolded symmetry, such as the Shechtmanite with an empirical formula of (Mg(32)[Al,Zn](49)).
We have the symmetry of the Icosahedron in 3D, which is 30%
more efficient in packing 12 spheres around a central point than a hexagon structure.
And we have Buckminsterfullerene,
a spherical form of pure Carbon, made up of 60 Carbon atoms, arranged in 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons in the shape of a soccer
ball.
So where did the archaeons come from?
They were the first 'aware ones', becoming magnetopolically EMMR-induced to pursue the path to selfrecognition and
selfawareness and beginning within their particular environments.
And by what method did this EMMR-induction proceed,
you might ask?
It is effected by means of the C-L and XX-XY sexual chromosomatic couplings; bringing us full circle and
back to the encoded story of the creation of mankind in the 'Garden of Eden' and its manifesto in
the starseed of Abraham
and Sarah."
Robert Sceptico: "And the C-coupling defines the Capacitative element in the EMMR-monopolic circuitry
and is basic to the X-chromosome and the L-coupling for the Y-chromosome is magnetoinductive."
Logan Antico:
"I knew that you would know that; you are very familiar with my work.
But using the codes and their decipherments, might
allow us to share our knowledge and information with the greater population, unfamiliar with our scholarly histories.
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