You can never know everything, and part of what you know is
always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A
portion of wisdom lies in knowing that.
--Lan Mandragoran
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.
--Arthur C. Clarke
My favorite "gift" of this season was not wrapped and found
under a tree. It exists outside the window where I am typing
now. It is a kind of "heaven" for one of nature's most
precious life-forms, the hummingbird. Their "ambrosia" takes
the form of a plethora of late blooming flowers. As northern
California is frost-free, they tend to migrate here in great
numbers, to the seasonal consternation of the permanent
population.
Experts are pretty sure that they have animal metabolism
figured out to the minute detail. You may not realize it,
but like many forms of "alternative energy" discussed on
vortex, in hummingbirds and all cellular life this mechanism
involves some variation of a hydrogen-permeable membrane and
a storage "matrix" for hydrogen (and perhaps its isomers).
But in all animals, a phosphate-based protein is involved.
"ATP -->ADP + energy" is the more general route for powering
animal life, but this process begins (according to the
experts) with a free-proton crossing a one-way membrane and
cannot operated without that membrane - which may not even
be a "real" proton conductor. This factor is seldom
mentioned and the experts instead have focused solely on
what happens to that proton later in the ATP "converter".
That lack of getting the total picture is a function of
reverse-myopia, perhaps, because the experts may be entirely
correct as far as they go; but they do not venture far
enough. I have been watching hummingbirds for half an hour
just now as part of a daily ritual going back years, and I
doubt that the experts can even begin to understand the
whole situation, especially without trying to do an accurate
"energy balance." The attempts which I have seen to account
for energy expenditure are a joke of number manipulation -
and are "not even wrong." No expert wants to admit that
these oddities of nature are expending far more energy than
they take-in.
There is perhaps 3-4 times more energy being expended by
hummingbirds than can possible be accounted for in their
caloric intake, IMHO. The experts are partially correct in
one pathway of utilization, but that fact has hindered their
deeper look into the underlying mechanics and has forced
them into number juggling, if not outright data
falsification. We should evaluate the notion that there is
another source of energy which can be used by some animals
with higher "needs". This secondary source is also related
to the metabolism of hydrogen, but not via the
combustion-metabolism of hydrogen through ATP. And this form
of hydrogen exploitation is definitely risky, health-wise,
so it had not been fully exploited by evolution and only
appears in organisms with intense energy requirements.
The details of this suggestion for an "extra" source of
proton-based energy for certain fast metabolizers (or for
certain hibernators) is incomplete now, and "sounds" a bit
like the hydrino theory of Randall Mills. But I think Mills
is mistaken in so many details of that theory that it is
hardly worth mentioning, except for the notion that hydrogen
can be induced to drop below the normal ground state, with
OU consequences.
>From my perspective, however, the drop below the normal
ground state is both *temporary*, oscillatory,
energy-neutral or endo-thermic, on-going but "not-quite
reversible" which involves those instances where the hydino
is converted to "bare" before popping back to ground state.
Like some OU devices, going as far back as seventy years to
Langmuir's torch, the *bare proton* (and its prior
'redundant' but temporary and non-conservative
'ground-states') may be the key to getting "extra" energy
from Dirac's sea. The process probably does involve a
temporary hydrino, but the hydrino formation alone may even
be slightly endothermic. You can call the net result "ZPE"
if it makes it easier to grasp, but it involves a temporary
hydrino and a sequential bare proton. The hydrino is not
permanent but oscillates near the Dirac interface of our
3-space and reciprocal space, and when it does cross over as
"bare" it can bring back a characteristic quantum of energy
and re-inflate to normal. It all depends upon disruption of
the "quantum foam" of virtual positronium (which is the only
well-known and proven item in this speculation.)
The amount of energy released when ATP "burns" -->ADP+
PHO4~substrate is about -30.5 kilojoules per mole. Sounds
like a lot - and for humans it is adequate. But it is not
very much compared to the winter sugar content of the late
blooming 'Rehmannia elata' on which the hummingbirds which I
am watching are feeding *while hovering* in mid-air and with
enough discretionary energy to fight off late-comers with
blinding speed and agility. There are presently three
"iridescent" beauties out there now, dueling and sipping,
who appear unwilling to share in the bounty but I suspect
that some of their jousting has to do with gender
considerations.... but anyway - it is one heck of a lot of
work that they are expending for a few milligrams of pollen
which doesn't even taste that sweet to me. And I suspect
that even their "iridescence" is indicative of the
evolutionary pathway that allowed them to tap into a hidden
source of energy, as it involves the Forster radius and UV
photons.
My new year's resolution will be to get a hummingbird
feeder, but till then this speculation will have to do. BTW,
like much of the "backward thinking" of mainstream science,
it is customary to report favorable energy reactions, like
the -30.5 kilojoules per mole, with a *negative* number. Go
figure. But it is emblematic of a science in much need of
revision.
Cell metabolism is complicated and not fully understood,
even the "experts" will somewhat begrudging admit to the
"not fully" part, but they grow numb at the mention of
protons going "below ground state." Several different
proteins can extract energy from the hydrolysis of ATP. All
of them appear to 'couple' some sort of motion of the
protein with the energy-releasing hydrolysis. The motion of
the protein can then be harnessed to do necessary things
involved in muscle contraction and eventually in allowing
the hummingbird to hover; ....also such things as pump
chemicals across a cell membrane. Almost all of the protein
energy "movement" which results from ATP involves the
creation of temporary "energy holes" - ions which can be
filled with some form of charge or quasi--charge 9hydrino).
BTW, there is only a 300 mV membrane potential for protons
in biology, whereas in normal electrolysis the necessary
potential is at least 4 times higher. That seems like OU in
itself, but there is more to the story. This fact alone (of
the too-low potential boundary) is indicative to me that the
so-called H+ ion is not crossing the membrane as an ion at
all, but is crossing as a hydrino whose "volume" being six
times less than normal, permits it to go through anything
with a negative near-field. It is much easier to store a
hydrino than a bare proton and much easier to "pump" Dirac's
sea with the oscillation. To keep the containment
one-sided, all the cell must do is to present a positive
near-field on the inner wall.
The potential energy stored in the phosphate bonds (adenine
tri-phosphate, for instance)...is actually rather limited,
but during "chemiosmosis" in cells structures, H+ ions are
said to pumped across an organelle membrane into a confined
space where they can remain "bare" for an extended period of
time. In my reappraisal of this, it is the hydrino which is
pumped across the membrane and stored with *far less*
problem than a proton. This may be the key to securing
"extra energy" only when needed. The confined hydrinos
cannot pass back through the charged membrane except through
where their only exit is an uncharged ATP gate. BUT, when
extra energy is needed, it may be to the organism's benefit
to force hydrinos completely "bare" for extended periods in
order to gather in some of the 6.8 eV UV energy from the
Dirac sea interface. In evolution, this could NEVER be
long-term solution for any life-form (obviously or else
evolutionary pressures would have already eliminated the ATP
mechanism altogether). I suspect the problem is that this
6.8 eV quantum of energy which is the ionization energy of
virtual positronium is both too difficult to harness on a
constant basis and is also "ionizing" radiation. which would
eventually destroy the cells of any organism which tried to
depend on it solely - unless that organism evolved
structures which were not affected by UV (life on Mars?)
Also consider "torpor" and hibernation in mammals and birds
and the advantages of UV utilization from bare protons, in
that limited cased. The very high rates of metabolism
required for maintenance of endothermy in small mammals at
low ambient temperatures are not sustainable unless food
supply is constant in quality and quantity. For hummingbirds
this is a tough imperative. These small active animals can
save large amounts of energy by abandoning regulation of
body temperature at their normal high levels during winter
cold spells. "Heterothermy" is the term used for "daily
(nightly) hibernation" and it may be another instance where
the hydrino boosted ATP mechanism can be employed to
"stretch" energy reserves, when needed. But this is getting
too involved for one posting. Later perhaps it will be
interesting to explore heterothermy and "iridescence" and
whether either is really indicative of an evolutionary
pathway that allows organisms to tap into a hidden source of
energy.
At any rate, the main point of this Holiday essay is that
among the many gifts for which we should be thankful, we
should also look to nature herself in order to get a handle
on ways we can learn to harness hidden resources.
Happy Holidays to all,
Jones
