Jones Beene Posted;
There is perhaps 3-4 times more energy being expended by hummingbirds than can possible be accounted for in their caloric intake, IMHO.
I'd think that this much excess energy should be measurable. If you put a bird in a container, it would seem to me that you could monitor the temperature of the air. Since it would be necessary to monitor the production of CO2, and balance that against energy in the sugar that you fed the bird.
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.
I don't understand why the light reflecting characteristics of the feathers should be a manifestation of the body's ability to tap into the ZPE. What is the Forster radius and what is it's relationship with UV photons?
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".
I sat in on a series of lectures on this mechanism. There are a series of organometallic complexes which carry the surplus electrons from the site of the oxidation reaction to the site where the the reactions producing the ADP and ATP are produced. This is the first time I've heard about a one way membrane which conducts protons. I'd be interested in hearing more about this membrane.
