Biodynamics and the Taming of the Materialistic Lion
How Plato & Aristotle, Goethe & Steiner,
Herzeele, Holleman & Vysotskii, Adams & Thomas
may have changed our understanding of
life, chemical substance and nuclear transmutation.
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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…
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[Old] Chapter 11: Biberian’s Marinobacter Experiments [New Ch.11 V0.2.2]
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…
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[Old] Chapter 10: Holleman’s Experiments [New Ch.11 V0.2.1]
Wim Holleman’s green algae experiments and the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of potassium.
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[Old] Chapter 9: Vysotskii and Cold Fusion [New Ch.12 V0.2]
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…
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[Old] Chapter 8: Kervran and Other Theorists [New Ch.10 V0.2.2]
The French populariser of biological transmutations, his simplistic theory, and others, such as Costa de Beauregard.
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[Old] Chapter 7: Pictet, Spessard, Baranger, etc [New Ch.10 V0.2.1]
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…
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[Old] The story so far…
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…
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[Old] Chapter 6: Hauschka, Herzeele and Baumgartner [New Ch.9 V0.4]
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…
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[Old] Chapter 5: Radioactivity, Isotopes and the Taming of the Atom[New Ch.13 V0.1.2]
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…
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[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]
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…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 