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From: "Grimer"
In fact that is the very reason that this species
can have gone undetected by modern science.
That's a very good point. Conventional science ain't
very good with transient phenomena. That's why amateurs
still make a big contribution in comet discovery, amongst
other things.
Yes. We must often look elsewhere for anything this transitory...
even if it finally stabilizes in megaton quantities ...<g>
Is there megaton evidence for a transitory hydrogen-based species
which could, for instance, arrive undetected from the sun as a
"heavy electron", but yet end up in the interior of earth as
"natural" gas ???
Yes ... This seach may be productive in more ways than one. This
gas could still be 'natural' even if it did not come from the
decay of vegetable matter. As we know, Earth's supply of methane,
or natural gas- comes mostly as a byproduct of the digestion of
organic compounds by microorganisms or decay by decomposition. A
few studies of "deep methane" found in rock with no biological
history, have indicated it **must have** been created by
nonbiological means, as there is an absence of normal markers, and
of previous biology.
And there is an ORNL researcher who contends that more methane
than previously thought may have been created by one nonbiological
means, and has discovered that mechanism. That line of reasoning
can be improved on with this hydrino-hypothesis, which also
involves iron and other heavy minerals.
In an article in the August 13 1999 "Science," Juske Horita and
Michael Berndt of the University of Minnesota report on research
that could explain [partially] why methane is found on the ocean
floor, where organic compounds are virtually absent.
"At these locations we don't see organic matter but still find
methane. It's been suspected that it is being created abiotically,
but the conditions for it haven't been known. We've discovered
that the presence of nickel-iron alloys catalyzes a normally very
slow reaction between carbon dioxide and hydrogen to create the
methane, which is virtually indistinguishable from methane created
through organic means," Horita says. "These aren't trivial
amounts; there could be more of a contribution of methane by
abiotic means in the earth's upper crust and on ocean floors than
we thought."
Horita and Berndt report that abiotic methane forms rapidly in the
presence of nickel-iron alloys and say that other compounds could
also be catalysts.
Fast forward seven years ... are we ready now to add to that
another mechanism which is more complex, in that the original
hydrogen itself does not even have to be split from water, which
is difficult at cold ocean depths, but came to earth in
"invisible" form - i.e. as what would appear to be a "heavy
electron" from its net charge - but from its mass of 1837 times
the electrons mass - we suspect that is Mills' elusive
hydrinohydride - only solar-derived.
Jones
