Subject: Re: Room temperature superconductor found in turtle body?

From: [email-masked] (Archimedes Plutonium)
Date: 28 Apr 1996 22:34:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (terry moreau) writes:

> There are micro-organisms that swim in a direction controlled by low
> level magnetic field.  You can put a helmholtz coil around a
> petri-dish and watch under the microscope as you steer then in any
> direction you choose.  Remote control micro-critters!
> 
> Homing pidgeons have a small amount of iron near their inner ear.
> Just how this is used and how it gets there is not known yet...but if
> you degauss a bunch of homing pidgeons and release them in foggy
> weather along with control pidgeons (not been degaussed) most control
> pidgeons find their way while ALL degaussed birds get lost or fly in
> circles! This was a part of a NOVA feature on unusual biological
> 'senses' produced for TV several years ago now.

 Anyone know if this information with data was reported in any science
journal? It could be very important.

 Who is the world's expert on electric eels? I have the feeling that a
room temperature superconductor perhaps already exists in an electric
eel. Anyone know of a complete list of species which are electric
current producing? My understanding is that there are many animals,
different species, capable of producing electric current.

  I am very confident that a room temperature superconductor already
exists in the bioworld and that it is only a matter of time when
someone either stumbles on it. or that with careful thought we can
narrow down the search as to 'where to look' or what bio-life would
most likely possess it. Or, perhaps someone expert in an animal say
turtles notices some peculiar organ or sensory gland or something,
perhaps those microorganisms that Terry speaks of above, and is
stimulated by the "Quest for Room Temperature Superconductor" sends it
to a superconductor facility and is found to be such. 
  Superconductivity is a highly specialized physics phenomenon but not
so complicated or complex as is life itself. So by logical inferences,
either superconductivity is a very cold aspect which life does not
overlap with, or, superconductivity is permitted to exist at room
temperature, and if so, it would be far too useful to have escaped the
natural progress of the more complex structure which is Life. Thus,
superconductivity, room temperature already exists in the Bio-world
just waiting to be discovered, to be plucked, to be harnessed. I am
banking on this last inference because my confidence derives from a
trust in the Cosmic Weave, the close knit of all things, the Universal
InterConnectedness, that biology and physics are not disjoint and
separated enterprizes but rather, they are as cogs and wheels in one
and only one cosmic machinery that works and blends smoothly together.
It is not by accident that Maxwell and Volta owe much to frogs and
eels. If there had not existed frogs and eels our modern civilization
would be much more primitive than it is today. All of which bespeaks of
a Maker, a Creator of the Cosmos where biology and physics run together
in a herd, passing the baton and neither one ever exceeding the other
for a long period of time. One could almost say that the Complementary
principle of Wave and Particle is apparent on the large scale of
knowledge wisdom and science in the world in the form of the two
subjects of biology and physics. Obviously those two subjects encompass
all of the worlds knowledge under there two umbrellas. If a University
were allowed to teach only two subjects whose scope and reach would be
the most extensive and useful, that would be easy, for it would be
physics and biology. Everything else can be put under those two.

   It is my firm belief that if a room temperature superconductor
exists, then biology will help us. So far, biology has been quiet on
superconductivity. I believe biology possesses some knowledge, some
machinery which will give us room temperature superconductivity. I am
banking on that premonition.

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From: Dan Evens <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 06:51:24 -0700

> journal? It could be very important.

Uh, well, for starters, anything with nerves.
Dan Evens