The mystery of the garnet inclusions.

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zhttps://phys.org/news/2018-08-tiny-tunnels-garnets-result-microorganisms.html

Tiny tunnels inside garnets appear to be the result of boring microorganisms

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https://journals.plos.org/plos…1371/journal.pone.0200351

Intricate tunnels in garnets from soils and river sediments in Thailand – Possible endolithic microborings

IMO, the phys.org article has interpreted the ournals.plos.org article incorrectly.The Tiny tunnels inside garnets could not have been produced by neither biologic nor abiologic causes. These tunnels could only have been produced by LENR active EVOs many millions of years ago.

The case against abiologic causation.

Garnets are relatively hard minerals (Hpyrope = 7.5) resistant to abrasion and chemical attack. A corresponding hardness ratio for the current garnets (Hpyrope = 7.5), would require a mineral millstone with a hardness of 9 or above to form ambient inclusion trails (AITs). Possible candidates would be corundum (Hcorondum = 9, including the varieties sapphire and ruby) or diamond (Hdiamaond = 10). Such extremely hard abrasive minerals are absent in the river sediments and extremely rare in the residual soils. Besides, considering the number of tunnels in one single garnet (sometimes more than 100), an excess of such mineral grains would have been needed in these environments to form the garnet tunnels. That is simply not the case in any of the examined localities.

The case against biologic causation

In frame C, there are many hundreds of regularly spaced and totally straight non intersecting tunnels that all look to be formed simultaneously (see also frame D) and happen to turn at the same instant in their formation process.

The tunneling displays a substantial range of appearance and morphological traits, from strictly organized palisades of parallel tunnels to irregularly branching and anastomosing networks. In the most organized variety, straight and strictly parallel tunnels form almost perfect rows (Fig A above); more commonly the tunnels, although parallel, are not lined up but are more irregularly scattered (Fig B). A recurring feature is a parallel, seemingly coordinated, curvature of the distal parts of each tunnel in such palisades (Fig C and D). There may also be two or more sets of palisades within a crystal, where internally parallel tunnels in each set make distinctive angles to co-occurring sets projecting in other directions (Fig E).

Formation of anastomosing(1,2) tunnels by biology would require some type of communication between separated organisms or at least organismal parts such as different hyphae of a fungal mycelium within a substrate. Such communication could be chemically controlled by fungi excreting molecules at the hyphal tip. Another mode of communication in a transparent substrate could be light. Natural bioluminescence is known among fungi to attract invertebrates for spore dispersal or as warning signals to repulse fungivores, but not for communicative purposes Without supporting observations among live species in controlled laboratory experiments fungal communication within a substrate is so far hypothetical.

IMO, bugs cannot work so closely together because they do not have the ability to communicate in such a timely way as to produce such well structured tunnels.

1. To open one structure into another directly or byconnecting channels, said of blood vessels,lymphatics, and hollow viscera; also incorrectly applied to nerves.

2. To unite by means of an anastomosis, or connection between formerly separate structures.

B) Tomographic reconstruction (volumetric rendering) showing the hexagonal cross section of multiple tubular structures. C) An orthoslice of a tomographic reconstruction showing the cross-sectional hexagons or rectangles of the tunnels. D) SEM image of a four-angled polygonal entrance hole. E) SEM image of a six-angled polygonal entrance hole that is filled. F) SEM image of a tubular structure that tapers off further into the mineral. Note how the tunnel have a polygonal shape at the mineral surface but further in gets more circular as it tapers off. G) Microphotograph of a tubular structure that tapers off and also starts with a polygonal shape at the mineral surface but gets more circular as it penetrates further into the mineral and tapers off. H) Microphotograph of tubular structures that tapers off. The branching of the tunnels results in offspring tunnels with less diameter than the originating tunnel.

Chemical erosion by bugs cannot produce regularly sharply defined geometric contours as the bugs eat their way through super hard garnet. All the tunnels change their contorting profile as the tunneling comes to a close.

Also chemical residue of bug remains cannot be offered as proof that the bugs produced the tunnels because the bugs could have populated the tunnels long after they were excavated.

The case for EVO tunnel creation and what we can learn about the nature of the excavating EVOs from characterization of the tunnels.

Entangled EVOs could have excavated the tunnels in a totally coordinated fashion. Many entangled EVOs can move as one excavating particle and produce N identical tunnels that are shaped identically in both their horizontal girth and geometric shape and vertical profiles.

We have seen EVOs excavate tunnels through diamond in the LION fuel, so garnet penetration is no problem.

As the EVOs lose power, the volume of their excavation shrinks to a point until their level of power production is to weak to continue with extending the excavation.

The way that all the tunnels in the garnet devolve to a sharp needle like point simultaneously witness to a shared energy store held between and among all the excavating EVOs.

The hexagonal tunnel shaped profiling is indicative of the structure of the molecule that is supporting the EVO and producing the excavating magnetic flux tube. Such shapes have been seen in the holes bored in the structure of the LION reactors. The flux tube that is doing the boring through the garnet is a monopole that extends straight forward and normal to the hexagonal Rydberg cross section of the EVO.

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axil ,

Water at high pressure and temperature is sufficient to wear away garnet, and crystal boundaries are the first to go, due to dislocations and other flaws that allow infiltration into the garnet crystal structure.

Garnets can be made, altered away, and re-made multiple times during regional metamorphism, (both prograde and retrograde), increasing the number of flaws in the crystal structure, or concentrating them in growth-loss areas/planes. Garnets formed from a biotite scaffold can have very large numbers of often linear flaws that can be exploited by fluids.

No LENR, hard grinding effect, or organism required at all.

The is no high pressure water source identified in the plog article in the locations that the studied garnets came from. If you think there is, please identify.

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There are garnets. Proof enough.

Is that like waving your hands?

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Garnets require pressure to form.

For example:

https://www.researchgate.net/f…-from-the_fig10_310688736

The tunnels were formed after the garnets were formed. The tunnels were excavated starting at the surface of the garnet and penetrated a few 100 microns toward the interior of the Garnet. The garnet is highly ware resistant and generally impervious to weathering so it is highly unlikely the the tunnels were produced by mechanical weathering.

From the reference

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All tunnels in the current investigation are rooted at the grain surfaces, which indicates that they are the result of secondary weathering processes. The mineral grains have been subject to an external agent of chemical, physical or biological nature after their formation. This interpretation is supported by tunnels that originate at relatively fresh surfaces, exposed by chemical or physical weathering. Comparison of the samples from OL and CT further support the interpretation. Since the unweathered garnets in the host rock (OL) are featureless, lacking the characteristic tunnels found in eroded garnets downstream (CT), it is evident that the tunnel structures are formed during the downstream transport in the river system. The river is a low-energy system with calm waters, which suggests that mechanical force is not likely to be responsible for the tunnel production, even if that were possible in a high-energy system. It is more probable that the tunnels have been formed in the river sediments by some other type of weathering process. The samples from KW, BR, NB have been weathered in situ, and thus by chemical rather than mechanical forces.

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Chemical weathering of garnets can produce surficial etch-pits and erosion patterns with a polygonal appearance, but tunnel structures have not been reported before [40]. Chemical weathering of garnets in lateritic environments or saprolites has been shown to produce shallow polygonal etch pits of varying diameter, but no deep galleries. Weathering of almandine usually results in a secondary surface layer of weathering products like goethite, kaolinite or pyrolusite that cover the entire mineral surface [41]. Beneath the surface layers there are usually polygonal etch pits being observed.

Complex tunnel structures, as in the current study, are not likely to be formed exclusively by chemical dissolution but need the involvement of an agent that controls the direction [6].

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Over many millions of years even mice can tunnel through a mountain.

The photo C and D under the title "The case against biologic causation"

But in their hundreds, they don't all build , identical length and width tunnels that all turn at the same instant and at the same angle and produce the same hexagonal shaped holes that gradually shrink at the same rate and terminate at the same point. It takes quantum mechanical entanglement to do that at the same instant in time.

Alan, do you have any mouse proofs?

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Most garnets grow ugly. They have a rough life. They grow, they shrink, they grow again. They get crushed and heal again. They get inclusions of all sorts. The residual fluids released from cooling nephelinitic magmas are nasty, fluorine-rich, and volatile. These fluids can dissolve rocks. Rarely a near-perfect garnet is grown. The rest are messy things, with holes, multiple growth rings, and parts of other minerals contained within. Eventually millions of years of weathering release them, and finally some random person picks some up, and thinks they have must been eaten by some organisms. Heaven help us if the garnet-eaters invade the human cities and the technological marvels the humans have made.

All this chemical and physical weathering activity speaks of random, never to be repeated one of a kind characteristics.

The tunnels that are pictured in this study are in the hundred, each exactly spaced from their identical neighbor in a precise array. It is the exact order in which the tunnels have been formed in a exactly coordinated fashion that is the proof of spooky quantum mechanical based action at a distance.

This quantum mechanically identical coordinated action is seen in LENR in particle movements as shown in these experimentally generated particle tracts.

The identical entangled tracks are analyzed as follows:

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axil ,

If it makes you happy, then believe what you like.

The planes of weakness are not random, whether the sources of attack are, or not.

What is more amazing is that a garnet (and many, many other minerals) will self-assemble under the correct PT-chemical regime to the level of organization that makes a wonderful crystal, at all.

You are living in a fantasy devoid of any fact finding. The tunnels were produced AFTER formation of the garnet and originated on the surface surface of the garnet. I have stated this in past posts on this thread but you persist in ignoring those FACTS in your thinking. This inability to think straight undermines any confidence in your opinions. You are living in a false fact based world. If it makes you happy, then believe what you like. Just be assured that your world is not reality.

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Garnets weather from the outside in. So of course the holes are on the outside.

Natural weathering mechanisms of almandine garnet

Michael Anthony Velbel

http://coweeta.uga.edu/publications/354.pdf

Withering does not produce Tunnels.

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Chemical weathering of garnets can produce surficial etch-pits and erosion patterns with a polygonal appearance, but tunnel structures have not been reported before

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Weathered garnet from oxidized vadose saprolite has thick,

continuous, tenacious layers of gibbsite-goethite weathering products,

which cover unetched garnet surfaces. The absence of etch pits on the

garnet suggests uniform attack by weathering of all parts of the garnet

surface. Micromorphologic evidence suggests that weathering in the inorganic

environment of deep (vadose) saprolites is inhibited by diffusion

(transport) through the protective surface layer.

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