I believe in the theory of evolution, to a certain extent, in that life naturally changes and evolves to adapt to the change in environment. It’s easy for me to see how fish and amphibions can progressively change into reptile-like things; or how some dinosaurs can gradually turn into proto-birds. It’s easy because we are dealing with living organisms already in the state of causal existence. What I have always wondered was how life first began, how it all started, or what the very first “living” things were. I would sit there in a contemplative state of mind (meditative) and work backwards to isolate the most primitive organis I can think of – which was a Bacterium. Then I would ask myself if I can go back even further and “locate” anything even more primitive then a Bacterium. I thought of a Virus, and that lead me to my “Virus Theory” of life.
A virus was a perfect candidate for the first kind of “organism” because it’s “pseudo-alive,” like it’s not dead matter nor living matter. It has a simple outer shell, and a simple string of RNA. Since I wasn’t a scientist, my Virus Theory of Life went something like this – “Hmm, I guess viruses were the first ‘living’ things.” That was it. I was satisfied at that moment, and was pretty proud of myself. Then I just tossed the theory somewhere in the back of my mind where other perplexing questions I have “conquered” were kept and never thought about it again.
One day as I walk walking around campus I walked past a group of these Asian nerd boys gathered around the quad together with a mason jar of water which they were shacking and they had electrode and batteries. They caught my interest so I stopped to ask them what they were doing.
One of the boys said – “We’re seeing if we can get these droplets of fat in this jar to life with electricity.”
“That’s dumb,” I said back, “Those droplets are dead, besides, how would you know if one of them came to life?”
This other boys says – “Well this is pork fat… aren’t your lipid molecules dead?”
I walked away to the library, angry because he was being a smartass, and I hate that; plus they were wrong. As I was sitting there in the library waiting for Chloe a Question came to my mind – What is the missing link between dead matter and living matter? I hate questions like these because I don’t have an answer for them, I’m the type of person that needs to have answers, and these questions sets me on a wild goose chase. I wrote the Question down and saved it for later.
That same day I went into one of my old internet stomping grounds to do some work. It was a Satanic forum and this crazy wiccan was talking about how much he loved crystals and stuff. I hate crystals because of its over exposure in the wachy new age movement, and this guy was getting on my nerves, so I attacked him for being an idiot. I got reprimanded by one of the smart users there for being a bitch and he started to give me some cool information about crystals. Which I didn’t care for, so I walked off to smoke a cigarette outside to cool down.
I think a lot when I smoke, which is good, because that means the more I smoke – the smarter I get. I had just gotten over a heated debate with friends at school that day about gravity and how its the central force that made the universe, it makes black holes… the big bang… all this silly crap. So that’s what I was thinking about while I was smoking. My friends don’t seem to realize that speculative mathematics which uses imaginary numbers to represent abstractions have nothing to do whatsoever with the real world we live in. Speculative mathematics cannot be a subsitute for the Scientific Method, which stresses testing of theories via real world experimentation. Any theory based on speculative mathematics is a lame theory which exists only in formula format until it is processed thru the scientific method. My friends asked me if I didn’t accept the Big Bang and gravity what I believed. I tent to go with the current heresy in science called “Plasma Cosmology,” which presents an electrical universe model. That is, a dynamic universe that had no real begining where electricity and plasma plays the utmost crucial role in every part and piece of the cosmos down to the living cell.
I was thinking about how electricity was like this giant cosmic web, or electric grid which connected everything together while I was smoking, and wondering what the source of all that electricity was. I was so deep in the thought, I didn’t even realize I was staring at my rose bush. I faded out and became aware of the rose bush and noticed all the damn aphids eating it alive!
So I thought about aphids for a while. They’re weird bugs. The females are born pregnant because they’re parthenogenic. They don’t even need males to reproduce, but all the offspring are clones of the parent. I thought – wouldn’t it be great if we humans were like that? If we were parthenogenic, we could just cull off all the men… *sign* a girl can dream. Anyways, I was looking close at one sticking its tubular sucker into the green skin just under the rose hip with its spidery legs and that image reminded me of a virus that eats bacteria called “T4 Bacteriophage.” In my mind I was thinking – “God, those T4 viruses are so weird, they have spider legs, a skinny stalk, and a crystal for a head…” When I thought about it’s crystal head, I thought about this one time when I rubbed two quartz crystals in a dark closet, which made these “electrical” sparks of light. That’s when I had my “Holy Shit!” moment.
It was like everything just fell together into a neat theory based on all I had studied so far – Crystals are the missing link between dead matter and living matter… viruses are crystilline structures! COHERENCY! Coherency is the secret to what is dead matter and what could become “alive.” Crystals are molecular structures in coherent formation, as opposed to a rock. If crystals have stored energy in it, then there is a connection to crystalline matter and the electric cosmos. Outer space is where those crystalline things first formed via an electrical process which would become the first pseudo-living organisms, and these fall from space into planets with liquid water in them. Which means that this whole universe is teaming with life, assuming that there are other planets out there conducive to “life.” Which means that the electric cosmos is a massive factory of life.
I stepped on my cigarette and ran inside, jumping right onto the computer to do research, looking for anything that would back up my theory – if crystals can form in space… if amino acids can form in space… if molecular RNA/DNA is crystalline in nature… and the world wide web didn’t disappoint me. It was like I got tripple 7′s at Vegas and a jack pot of supporting scientific research that was already done fell into my lap. It took me only 10 minutes of typing the right key words to locate enough information to make my theory a viable one. Here’s my thinking process and important links. All but one link is still live, so I’ll search for new ones to replace the dead one. I just want to share it & archive it here:
Dead matter = incoherent
Living mater = coherent
link between dead and living matter = crystals
link between crystals and living organisms = virus
Theory = Basic building blocks of coherent crystalline structures needed for primitive life is manufactured every where in Space.
Corollary = Life on other planets exists.
Most things that exist in the cosmos are inanimate organic and inorganic things (like rocks & metal)…
But then we come to crystals?
What exactly is a crystal?
To me, I understand a crystal like this: a crystal is to a lazer as a rock is to a flashlight.
By this I mean that both the light of a flash light, and the composition of a rock are scattered about, and in no particular order… like random electrical sequences…
But a lazer is COHERENT light (meaning that the light waves are focused tightly… just as the composition of a crystal is structured in a COHERENT form… just like the 1′s and 0′s on our harddrives are sequenced in a COHERENT structure?
Viruses, pretty much are just a crystalline shell, with a “crystalline” strip of genetic material.
Based on how I understand what a “crystal” is, I would have to say that the DNA molecule is a crystal, being a mass of unalive elements and molecules structured in a coherent manner… and it can be used technologically like crystals, as Microcomputer chips in DNA computaion.
Based on how I myself understand what a crystal is, I would say that many things about us use a crystalline structure on the molecular level: like calcium; cholesterol; sugars; sodium; hemoglobin… plus carbon is a frequent component in many crystals: diamonds.
Crystalline structures means that electrons would flow better through it. Some crystals produce vibrations, while others produce light. Light, as in the next step in computation technology and devices: Photronics. Some university students figured out that our electron based microchips are as small as they will get, and made photon crystals, which can use photons to store coherent information.
I can name two things that seem to be alive, but don’t seem to have DNA or RNA: our Red Blood cells, and those nanobacteria.
All these above things have two things in common – Coherency and Electricity. Maybe I’m using the word coherency wrong. By coherency I mean something highly structured and organized – like digital information, or the streams of radio and television frequencies, as opposed to random clicks and bleeps.
DNA Crystals:
http://originoflife.net/dna_crystals/
My commentary: DNA molecules are crystals.
Liquid Crystals from DNA:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i48/8548notw4.html
My Commentary: Not only are DNA structures, crystal, they can be “Liquid Crystals.”
Crystals absorbe amino acids to its face:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010505/fob1.asp
My Commentary: Some crystals attracts and absorbs amino acids onto their surface. If a lot of amino acids collect, they could connect together to form protien chains.
I found the holy grail- Piezoelectric Resonances in Amino-acids (quartz is piezoelectric):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v225/n5233/abs/225635a0.html
My Commentary: Like the quartz crystals, amino acids are ‘piezoelectric.’ Which ties all this in with the electric universe theory!
The Formation of Racemic Amino Acids by Ultraviolet Photolysis of Interstellar Ice:
http://www.astrochem.org/aanature.html
My Commentary: Amino Acids, which are the building blocks for dna, rna, and protiens, have been discovered to form in outer space…
Space radiation may select amino acids for life:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7895
My Commentary: This also has to do with electric fields in space getting rid of Right Hand amino acids and leaving the Left Hand ones which most organisms on earth uses.
Chemicals Almost Come Alive:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/20/034.html
My Commentary: Cellular membrane like things form in space.
Lastly – Living Crystals & Plasma Crystals:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/weird-life1.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740463,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12466
My Commentary: Crystals are the highest form of inorganic matter, which isn’t very far from a unicellular bit of protoplasm. The gap between the two is small. This site suggests sperm or its crystal shell as a gap filler of sorts. This site, and the living plasma crystal site implies something… an “evolutionary” process of dead inorganic matter to living organic matter.
Living Plasma [Crystals]:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=111062
My commentary: Plasma (the fourth state of matter) exhibits a “living” quality. Plasma crystals form in space which exhibits characteristics of living things.
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Anyways. After understanding the theory, and reading the links, it can be seen that life is a natural process in outer space. Or that the germ of life is constantly being manufactured in space via natural means. That there needs not be a creator god or an intelligence which put these little pieces together. With the right ingredients, under the right conditions, life forms as naturally as water vapor forms in its right conditions. Crystals are the missing link between dead matter and living matter. This adds a new beautiful perspective of Crystals, if you work with them, as many do in the ONA. We could say that Crystals are, in a way, actual “nexions” of life, which quite literally is our connection between this causal world we exist in, and our ‘ancestral’ acausal world.
Kayla
WSA
