Alchemy

[Jones]

Well, to add to the biological processes mentioned in the article that Persej shared there is apparently a bacterium that ingests toxic metals and poops tiny nuggets. Cupriavidus metallidurans. There was a small gold mine claim north of the town that I used to live in that were experimenting with this bacterium and slowly producing gold - they called it 'growing gold'. They could only make it in very tiny amounts though.

These Bacteria Digest Toxic Metals And Poop Out Tiny Gold Nuggets

No other life form on our planet has infiltrated every environment as successfully as the minuscule single cells of bacteria.

www.sciencealert.com

So perhaps earthquakes and piezo-electric effects make the environment attractive to the bacterium?

 

[Mari]

If I recall correctly, Laura wrote in Secret History about a Nazi project to make gold from quartz. I just did a quick Google search and couldn’t find anything about it and I don’t have the book to hand at the moment, but it sounds similar to the above and involved using electricity in some way.

I´ve completely forgot about that part!

Here it is:

... Franz Tausend was a 36 year-old chemical worker in Munich who had a theory about the structure of the elements that was a strange mixture of Pythagoreanism and modern chemistry. He published a pamphlet entitled, “180 elements, their atomic weight, and their incorporation in a system of harmonic periods”. He thought that every atom had a frequency of vibration characteristic of that element, related to the weight of the atom’s nucleus and the grouping of the electrons around it. This part of his idea was shown to be basically correct by later research. However, Tausend further suggested that matter could be “orchestrated” by adding the right substance to the element, thereby changing its vibration frequency, in which case, it would become a different element.

As it happened, at about the same time, Adolf Hitler was sent to prison for attempting to organize an armed uprising. One of his cohorts was General Erich Ludendorff, but Ludendorff was acquitted of the charges and ran for president of Germany the following year. He was defeated by Hindenburg, so he turned his mind to raising money for the nascent Nazi party. He heard rumors that a certain Tausend had transmuted base metals into gold, and he formed a group, including numerous industrialists, to investigate this process.

Tausend gave instructions that they should purchase iron oxide and quartz which were melted together in a crucible. A German merchant and member of this group, named Stremmel, took the crucible to his hotel bedroom for the night so that it could not be tampered with. The
next morning, Tausend heated the crucible in his electric furnace in the presence of his patrons, and then added a small quantity of white powder to the molten mass. It was allowed to cool, and then, when it was broken open, a gold nugget weighing 7 grams was inside.

Ludendorff, to say the least, was ecstatic. He set about forming a company called “Company 164”. Investment money poured in and within a year the general had diverted some 400,000 marks into Nazi Party funds. Then, in December, 1926, he resigned, leaving Tausend to handle all the debts. Tausend managed to continue raising money and on June 16, 1928, supposedly made 25 ounces of gold in a single operation. This enabled him to issue a series of “share certificates” worth 22 pounds each (10 kilograms of gold).

A year later, when no more gold had been produced, Tausend was arrested for fraud, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to four years in prison. Nevertheless, while waiting for trial, he was able to perform a transmutation under strict supervision, in the Munich Mint. This was submitted to the court as evidence that no fraud had taken place, but it was contested and did not save him from prison.

In the same year that Tausend was convicted, a Polish engineer named Dunikovski announced in Paris that he had discovered a new kind of radiation which would transmute quartz into gold. The mineral, spread on copper plates, was melted by an electric discharge at 110,000 volts, and was then irradiated with these new “z-rays”. Investors poured two million francs into Dunikovski’s project, but, within a few months, when no gold appeared, he was also tried and found guilty of fraud. After two years in prison, Dunikovski’s lawyer obtained an early release, and he went with his family to Italy where he again began to experiment. Rumors soon started that he was supporting himself by the occasional sale of lumps of gold. His lawyer, accompanied by the eminent chemist, Albert Bonn, went to see him.

What was discovered was that the quartz being used by Dunikovski (and presumably by Tausend as well) already contained minute quantities of gold. The gold could be extracted by a usual process, producing about 10 parts per million, but Dunikovski’s technique produced almost 100 times as much. Nevertheless, he was only dealing with small quantities of gold because his equipment could only handle small quantities of quartz.

Dunikovski claimed that his process accelerated the natural growth of “embryonic” gold within the quartz. He gave a demonstration before an invited group of scientists that attracted considerable attention. An Anglo-French syndicate formed to bring sand from Africa and treat it in a big new laboratory on the south coast of England, but WW II started at about this time and Dunikovski disappeared. It was rumored that he was “co-opted” by the Germans and manufactured gold for them to bolster their failing economy – but there is no proof. ...

Knight-Jadczyk, Laura. The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive (p. 51-52). Red Pill Press. Kindle Edition.

 

[Persej]

So perhaps earthquakes and piezo-electric effects make the environment attractive to the bacterium?

Nobody is mentioning such connection, so it seems that these two phenomena are not connected.

What was discovered was that the quartz being used by Dunikovski (and presumably by Tausend as well) already contained minute quantities of gold.

Dunikovski claimed that his process accelerated the natural growth of “embryonic” gold within the quartz.

This is exactly what this study says, although it's not exactly the growth as people might imagine. The gold doesn't grow out of nothing, but it accumulates on the quartz. So quartz simply concentrates the gold that can be naturally found in the surrounding environment. If somebody discovered something more, well that's another thing...

What is particularly interesting to me is what would happen to such an environment, rich with quartz and gold on it, in the time of big earthquakes? Would it connect the environment with higher densities?

Now, the C's said that gold must become liquid in order to open the door to higher density experience. Well, perhaps that is exactly what happens with gold during the earthquakes, similar to what is happening at the core of Earth with iron?

Q: (A) Okay, now this crystalline ammonia core inside the Earth, can we have idea how big it is, what radius?

A: 300 km.

Q: (L) What is surrounding it, what is the next layer? (A) Normally people would say it's an iron crystal. What is the next layer?

A: Correct.

Q: (A) There is this ammonia - crystalline... (L) Surrounded by iron crystal. Is it crystal iron? (A) Probably at this pressure that is here, it may very well be crystal. (L) Okay, is the iron surrounding the ammonia, is it crystalline?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) What's the next layer?

A: Molten iron.

Q: (A) Okay, now we know that some planets have this crystalline ammonia, and some do not. When we consider planets that have this crystal ammonia inside, how did it get there? Was it a kernel first around which the planet was formed, or first the planet was formed and then during some processes the ammonia sank and crystallized inside? I would like to know how it got there?

A: It is the natural formation process for ammonia to accrete iron from supernovae.

Q: (L) I read somewhere - about supernovae - that the only reason we have iron is because it's produced in supernovas. That would mean that our solar system is formed from a supernova, right? In which case what blew up and when? (A) I understand that this crystalline ammonia core - 300 km radius - must have certain magnetic properties which are important. Because it was mentioned that it was lacking in dynamo theory or certain very important properties concerning heat convection. So there are these two main things in dynamo theory - conductivity and electric properties - on the other hand heat convection properties. Why is this ammonia important for the magnetic field because of what properties?

A: Super conducting.

Q: (A) According to what we know it's very hot inside the earth because of the pressure. Now, is this ammonia also hot, as much as iron?

A: Grows alternately cold and hot.

Q: (A) Is it super conducting even if when it is very hot?

A: No.

Q: (A) When it gets cold, how cold does it get?

A: 55 degrees below absolute zero.

Q: (L) What is absolute zero? (A) That is something you can't get below. That's why it's called absolute zero. It's a new thermo-dynamics. (L) How often does it alternate?

A: Close to hour long periods.

Q: (L) So when it gets so cold and becomes super conducting, the act of super-conducting is what heats it up? Is that it?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Well once it heats up, how does it then get cold again?

A: It stops conducting.

Q: (L) What is it conducting? When something is super conducting what does it conduct?

A: Electrons.

Q: (A) The point is, you see, that when something is super conducting it offers no resistance. Which means that the current it flows through it, is not heating it. Well we learned that it gets hot because it's super conductive, right? Which is somewhat contradictory because when it is super-conducting there's no reason for it to be hot except it can become hot because there is the hot external shell of iron. So that is very likely why it would become hot. Because by the very definition of super conductivity you don't become hot when you conduct, see? Well, if there are big, very big currents, then okay, they can stop super conductivity, then it gets warm.

A: Currents of this nature set the surrounding iron to vibrating which produces heat, not heat produced by the current.

Session 31 October 2001

 

[Persej]

This isn't about gold but indium selenide, but perhaps something similar can also happen to gold? Or some other material in Earth's crust which could open the window to 4D after the earthquakes?

'Accidental discovery' creates candidate for universal memory — a weird semiconductor that consumes a billion times less power

Scientists may have accidentally overcome a major barrier to smoothening the adoption of next-generation data-storage technologies.

Using a unique material called indium selenide (In2Se3), researchers say they discovered a technique for lowering the energy requirements of phase-change memory (PCM) — a technology capable of storing data without a constant power supply — by up to 1 billion times.

The breakthrough is a step toward overcoming one of the biggest challenges in PCM data storage, potentially paving the way for low-power memory devices and electronics, the researchers said in a study published Nov. 6 in the journal Nature.

PCM is a leading candidate for universal memory — computing memory that can replace both short-term memory like random access memory (RAM) and storage devices like solid-state drives (SSDs) or hard drives. RAM is fast but needs significant physical space and a constant power supply to run, while SSDs or hard drives are much denser and can store data while computers are turned off. Universal memory combines the best of both.

It works by toggling materials between two states: crystalline, where atoms are neatly ordered, and amorphous, where atoms are randomly arranged. These states correlate to binary 1s and 0s, encoding data via switches in states.

However, the "melt-quench technique" used to toggle these states — which involves heating and rapidly cooling PCM materials — requires significant energy, making the technology expensive and difficult to scale. In their study, the researchers found a way to bypass the melt-quench process entirely by instead inducing amorphization through an electrical charge. This slashes PCM's energy requirements and potentially opens the door to broader commercial applications.

"One of the reasons why phase-change memory devices haven't reached widespread use is due to the energy required," study author Ritesh Agarwal, a professor of materials science and engineering at Penn Engineering, said in a statement. The potential of these findings for designing low-power memory devices is "tremendous," he said.

The researchers' discovery hinges on the unique properties of indium selenide, a semiconductor material with both "ferroelectric" and "piezoelectric" characteristics. Ferroelectric materials can spontaneously polarize, meaning they can generate an internal electric field without needing an external charge. Piezoelectric materials, by contrast, physically deform when they are exposed to an electric charge.

While testing the material, the researchers observed that sections of it amorphized when they were exposed to a continuous current. What's more, this happened entirely by chance.

"I actually thought I might have damaged the wires, study co-author Gaurav Modi, a former doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Penn Engineering, said in the statement. "Normally, you would need electrical pulses to induce any kind of amorphization, and here a continuous current had disrupted the crystalline structure, which shouldn't have happened."

Further analysis revealed a chain reaction triggered by the semiconductor's properties. This begins with tiny deformations in the material caused by the current that triggers an "acoustic jerk" — a sound wave similar to seismic activity during an earthquake. This then travels through the material, spreading amorphization across micrometer-scale regions in a mechanism the researchers likened to an avalanche gathering momentum.

The researchers explained that various properties of indium selenide — including its two-dimensional structure, ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity — work together to enable an ultra-low-energy pathway for amorphization triggered by shocks. This could lay the groundwork for future research around "new materials and devices for low-power electronic and photonic applications," they wrote in the study.

"This opens up a new field on the structural transformations that can happen in a material when all these properties come together," Agarwal said in the statement.

'Accidental discovery' creates candidate for universal memory — a weird semiconductor that consumes a billion times less power

A chance discovery by researchers could drastically lower the energy needed for next-generation memory technologies.

www.livescience.com

 

[Persej]

Adam McLean says that he made a list of about 5000 alchemical books and 4000 manuscripts, most of them still untranslated to modern English. Today I found an article that says the same about cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia:

“Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets inscribed in the cuneiform script document the political, social, economic, and scientific history of ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, most of these documents remain untranslated and inaccessible due to their sheer number and limited quantity of experts able to read them,” the team writes in the study.

New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly

Thousands of ancient cuneiform tablets remain untranslated. A team of researchers have developed an AI to unlock their secrets.

bigthink.com

I was under the impression that we have completely lost the knowledge from the past because of the natural or human made catastrophes. But it seems that many works have survived the passage of time, but that we just haven't translated them yet. Hopefully, these new AI tools will help us translate them to modern languages, and maybe we will rediscover some of this lost knowledge.

 

[Persej]

To gain access to what is in the symbols, one must take them into ones being, breathe them in, as it were, or allow oneself to resonate with the imagery. Then they begin to speak within us. This is, I believe, not merely a subjective exercise, but if one holds true to a profound sequence of symbols such as the Splendor Solis, the Mylius series, the Rosarium, the Aurora Consurgens, etc. resisting projecting ones own prejudices and views on the sequence, but letting it reveal itself in its own time, one comes eventually to see how each symbol in an emblem echoes and reflects its neighbors, and ultimately to grasp something of the inner reasons why the sequence is structured in a particular way.

I was listening about this interesting discovery of ancient Sanskrit text algorithm, and the way that it was discovered reminded me of what Adam McLean said about his work with alchemical algorithms in the above excerpt from his interview.

So I had spent almost nine months at this point at Cambridge as a PhD student and I had found absolutely nothing. So I was disappointed, I was despondent, I was almost ready to quit, and I thought I think I deserve a break. It's summertime let's take some time out, let's extract ourselves from the thick of the problem. And just spend some time doing other things because anyway we're not making much progress, are we.

So that's exactly what I did. I spent a month away from my research. I did not even touch my books for that one month and all I did is cook, pray, meditate, swim, read other stuff, but nothing related to my work after one month. Of course, begrudgingly, I had to go back to the department to see what I can do about this problem. And I entered the room. I opened the first notebook. Within minutes, as I'm flipping the pages, the patterns almost reveal themselves to me. Almost within seconds I knew that I had what I needed to successfully complete my PhD, but more importantly to solve this absolutely fascinating problem.

PhD student solves a mysterious ancient Sanskrit text algorithm after 2,500 years

A Cambridge Ph.D. student has solved a 2,500-year-old grammatical problem surrounding a work vital in understanding classical Sanskrit.

bigthink.com

AI will certainly be useful for some things, but for others, the magic of human mind is needed.

 

[Wandering Star]

Adam McLean says that he made a list of about 5000 alchemical books and 4000 manuscripts, most of them still untranslated to modern English. Today I found an article that says the same about cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia:



I was under the impression that we have completely lost the knowledge from the past because of the natural or human made catastrophes. But it seems that many works have survived the passage of time, but that we just haven't translated them yet. Hopefully, these new AI tools will help us translate them to modern languages, and maybe we will rediscover some of this lost knowledge.

If that works like language translators, the disaster can be huge.

If you translate something into English with a web translator and then you translate that text back into your language, it never gives you the same text and most of the time it is painful to read what the translator returns.

The Cassiopaea sessions that people read through translators have terrible translation errors (I was going to say nefarious).

 

[Persej]

Yes, the current AI translation is rough, but since we are still at the beginning of this technology, I think that it will improve in the future.