Speaking of the Ocean - not necessarily the Dirac sea, nor the
depth of the imagination - there is the oft-mentioned "Special-K
deficit"... and we're not talking breakfast either.
Potassium (K) is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's
crust (2.4% by mass) but only 40 ppm in the ocean - despite its
solubility. Lets see: 40 compared to 24,000 is rather glaring (of
course that is a hyperbolic misuse of statistics - but it helps to
make the point).
That point being that maybe we have this deficit because the
nucleus is more unstable under 'certain' low-energy circumstances
than the textbooks allow. And no further mention will be made of
Kervan now - but keep in mind that K can arguably be more active
even in biology then the following figures about it, based on
known properties, permit.
Over one out of every 10,000 Potassium atoms is radioactive:
Potassium-40 - an unstable isotope with a half life of 1.26
billion years. But there is so much of it in the biota that it
must be a major contributor to genetic damage leading to cancer
and/or occasionally leading to new (better) genes. It can therfore
be considered to be the most important agent of change in all of
life - with the possible exception of UV light.
Potassium 40 has three decay modes: beta decay, positron emission,
and electron capture. Most of these K nuclei have 19 protons and
21 neutrons and when one proton captures an electron (EC) to
become a neutron then 18 protons and 22 neutrons are left and the
atom has become Argon-40 the so-called "inert" gas. If the
electron has been "borrowed" from the epo (aether) then a
positronium is left over OR if the nucleus has emitted a postiron
there is also a spare one in the local environs ....
This "extra" postitron may be one key to the reactivity of the
remainder argon, despite its short lifetime. Another may be the
triad e-e+e- or (e-)* ....where the spare positron bonds with two
electrons to form (e-)* or however it is formed - but it should
not be discounted that the positronium-positive ion, or the
transitory muon, coming from reversed-time-argon (of the Larson
reciprocal system) - may be involved in the unusual secondary
energy of this decays sequence. Another possibility, one might
suppose, although I do not recall ever seeing it mentioned is the
molecule: proton-electron-postiron-electron, which is like the H2
molecule but with one proton substituted with a positron. Would
that postiron have an extended liftetime??
For every hundred 40K atoms that decay, only 11 become Ar-40. This
is not much to play with in order to power an ICE, as we are down
to one in 100,000 active and then with the billion+ year half-life
you are looking at one in every 10^18 active or only about 50,000
per second per ounce of natural potassium hydroxide - which is
minicule as an energy resource.
OTOH there may be potential ways to dramatically accelerate the
rate of decay, if not the relative percentage of the radioactive
species. The "24,000 times" deficit mentioned earlier may be a
clue as to what is going on... not to mention the "accelerated"
part.
At any rate - there are surprising links between "inert" Argon and
the potassium decay chain leading to OU - some relating to
biology.
Jones
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