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Biological Transmutations Paperback – June 1, 1998
- Print length134 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBeekman Publishers, Inc.
- Publication dateJune 1, 1998
- Dimensions5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
- ISBN-100846401959
- ISBN-13978-0846401957
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- Publisher : Beekman Publishers, Inc.; 1st edition (June 1, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 134 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0846401959
- ISBN-13 : 978-0846401957
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,578,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,512 in Biochemistry (Books)
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bosses at even the most prestigious Universities. This Publication is the embodiment of an old and very wise saying; "It takes Many Spadefuls of Earth to Bury the Truth"
Kervran wrote nuclear transmutation equations the way one would notate chemical reactions, showing how protons and neutrons were supposedly exchanged to get from reactants to products. But he didn't check the conservation of mass and energy, which was severely violated. For example, he proposed an endothermic nuclear reaction to explain how oil workers in the desert kept from overheating. A quick check of the masses of the reactants and products of his proposed reaction shows that the products have less total mass than the reactants, accounting for an exothermic energy release sufficient to vaporize his oil workers. Remember, the mass of a stable nucleus is always less than the masses of the protons and neutrons that make it up. The mass deficit is the binding energy that holds the nucleus together. Differences in binding energy explain the energy releases of hydrogen fusion and of the fission of uranium 325 and plutonium 239. Kervran did not understand enough physics to check the change in total mass, representing the binding energy difference. Those numbers were readily available to him, in his pre-internet era, from that ubiquitous reference, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. ALL of his proposed reactions involved mass-energy changes of magnitudes that would defy credibility.
Rather than proposing to overthrow the conservation of mass-energy, one of the most fundamental cornerstones of modern physics, based on the interpretations of a French physician who was obviously ignorant of the violations of that law implicit in his own formulas, I would appeal to Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is that Kervran was wrong.


