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[Old] Chapter 13: Goethe’s World View [New Ch.15 V0.1]

Apr 18, 2020

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an observer of nature and laid the foundations for a phenomenological science. His collected scientific works were edited by Rudolf Steiner. Goethe’s ideas and methodologies inspired Herzeele, Preuss and Holleman. Holleman recommended that the biological transmutation phenomenon might best be studied using a Goethean scientific methodology. Unfortunately he did not…

[Old] Chapter 11: Biberian’s Marinobacter Experiments [New Ch.11 V0.2.2]

Apr 18, 2020

As if Holleman’s appearance and disappearance of potassium wasn’t strange enough, Biberian’s marine bacteria results were even more challenging. For every measured chemical element increase in one culture container, an equal but opposite decrease occurred in the other. Whilst it is always possible that errors occurred, in both cases the results and methodologies were such…

[Old] Chapter 10: Holleman’s Experiments [New Ch.11 V0.2.1]

Apr 18, 2020

Wim Holleman’s green algae experiments and the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of potassium.

[Old] Chapter 9: Vysotskii and Cold Fusion [New Ch.12 V0.2]

Apr 18, 2020

Vysotskii and Kornilova’s most convincing experiments and the only explanatory theory inline with mainstream physics and the ideas of cold fusion. The key concept here is that this work shows that a chemical isotope (element) transmutation may be enabled using the safe, low energies, of chemical and biological processes, without having to resort to extremely…

[Old] Chapter 8: Kervran and Other Theorists [New Ch.10 V0.2.2]

Apr 18, 2020

The French populariser of biological transmutations, his simplistic theory, and others, such as Costa de Beauregard.

[Old] Chapter 7: Pictet, Spessard, Baranger, etc [New Ch.10 V0.2.1]

Apr 17, 2020

One of those investigating such matters was the Swiss chemist Amé Pictet. His student, Werner Scherrer, in collaboration with Louis Helfer were inspired by the observations of Louis Pasteur, who had found what they suspected were high levels of argon in yeast.

[Old] The story so far…

Apr 17, 2020

As I make this sketch it has begun to become apparent which of the ideas form its golden threads and the manner of their appearance. One of those threads is that of the lion of alchemy…

[Old] Chapter 6: Hauschka, Herzeele and Baumgartner [New Ch.9 V0.4]

Apr 13, 2020

For this chapter I have a lot of homework to do… I need to (re-)read Rudolf Hauschka’s The Nature of Substance (Substanzlehre). Meanwhile an outline of what I recall…

[Old] Chapter 5: Radioactivity, Isotopes and the Taming of the Atom[New Ch.13 V0.1.2]

Apr 11, 2020

The so-called uncuttable atom proved to hold a deeper secret. Something of that story is given in the second half of the Wikipedia article on Atomic Theory…

[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]

Apr 11, 2020

The story of the atom is a long and complex one. Their existence was hypothesised largely because they were easy to imagine and even easier to mathematize – as easy as one, two, three! They were generally considered to be very small, solid and like billiard balls in their collisions. Some believed that they possessed…

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