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Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
I don't know. I was hoping someone who's not a smartass would help out.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
You're an engineer? I like the perspective of engineers better than physicists because the information seems less abstract and more practical and useable.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
So this preference is quite strange.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
So this preference is quite strange.
Not at all; you just lack the wisdom to understand and the humility to try to.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Mary, you can't even point to what's there to be "understood".
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Mary, you can't even point to what's there to be "understood".
Buddhasystem, what there is to be understood is creative, intuitive, inspired, non-conformist analysis and original thinking by self-taught, self-motivated, unencumbered individuals who are the trail-blazers in this world. The engineers then take the theory arrived at by these hard-working trail-blazers/inventors and implement their ideas.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by buddhasystem
Blah, blah, blah. I didn't read your post. I can't be bothered!!
Get the picture?
So which of us has done the greater service - you, for posting gibberish, or me, for pointing it out?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
You're an engineer?
I like the perspective of engineers better than physicists because the information seems less abstract and more practical and useable. Maybe as I continue to read this book I can ask specific, relevant questions and you might be willing to answer them.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Not really - I am an aircraft mechanic by trade, and have several units of various engineering papers at year 2 & 3 as part of my degree - which is in history - that being a hell of lot more interesting than engineering!
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Merrick has a Facebook page for his book, and I've posted a request that he illustrate what he's talking about.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Merrick has a Facebook page for his book, and I've posted a request that he illustrate what he's talking about.
I haven't gotten an answer yet so I've re-posted asking in a different way. Merrick has the document "Harmonically Guided Evolution," which is his summary paper of a publication "Harmonic Evolution: A Musical Theory of Everything," due to come out this year. I've asked whether there's an illustration in that document that applies.
All life on Earth is composed mostly of carbon-12 and water
Nitrogen is an essential building block of amino and nucleic acids, essential to life on Earth.
Oxygen (65%)
Carbon (18%)
Hydrogen (10%)
Nitrogen (3%)
Calcium (1.5%)
Phosphorus (1.0%)
Potassium (0.35%)
Sulfur (0.25%)
Sodium (0.15%)
Magnesium (0.05%)
Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Molybdenum, Fluorine, Chlorine, Iodine, Manganese, Cobalt, Iron (0.70%)
Lithium, Strontium, Aluminum, Silicon, Lead, Vanadium, Arsenic, Bromine (trace amounts)
This is the case because carbon-12 bonds or resonates with more
simple elements than any other element in the universe
With 6 protons + 6 neutrons in its nucleus and 6 electrons orbiting in two shells, carbon-12 exhibits the lowest possible energy of all the elements
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Jesus H Christ
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Jesus H Christ
Please help BS!
He's losing it!
This idea of life as a crystallization process is a good one
because just as minerals align under pressure into lattices, coils of
amino acids fold under pressure into three-dimensional protein
structures, aligning into the familiar helical lattice of DNA.
When the 5-fold icosahedral superclusters of water is then
combined with the complementary dodecahedral structures
of carbon, something very interesting occurs - they resonate
with one another to produce the characteristic geometry of
life.