How could Egyptian pyramids and rain making relate to each other?

I received from Zakaria Ahmindache a link to a very interesting article of Borisov published in Researchgate (see this) with title "The Egyptian Pyramids-Connection to Rain and Nile flood Anomalies".

1. Background considerations

Since a topic involving words like ancient Egypt, pyramids and rainmaking probably induces strong emotional reactions in skeptics, it is good to include some TGD background and also make clear that the proposal of Borisov provides an excellent opportunity to develop the TGD based conceptualization of quantum biology by applying it.

1.1 A possible unification of various types of life and consciousness

I have taken a rather skeptic attitude to everything that involves ancient Egypt but at this time I felt fascinated. The reason was that during last weeks I have been working with a breakthrough in TGD inspired theory of consciousness and of living systems suggesting a unified view of different types of consciousness assignable to biosystems, plasmoids, quartz (possibly computers) and quite generally to any system, which involves cold plasmas and therefore ions (see this).

1. The key notion is what might be called OH-O^- qubit. The transition OH → O^- + dark proton at the gravitational magnetic body of the Sun or Earth flips this qubit-like entity. This transition occurs in the Pollack effect which has become a key notion in the TGD inspired quantum biology. The reverse transition occurs when the electron of O^- is excited so that the difference of the bond energy of OH and binding energy of the electron changes sign. This effect might be called the dual Pollack effect.

   This transition generalizes. Any salt can decompose to ions and the positive ion could be assigned to the gravitational magnetic body of the Earth or Sun. Biosystems are full of ions of this kind.

2. The dark variant of the genetic code is one of the basic ideas of TGD and one can understand it in a very detailed manner if the qubits associated with the phosphates of the double DNA strand and phosphates and ribosomes of a single RNA strand provide a representation of the genetic code. In proteins COOH could assign a single qubit to each amino acid.
3. This also allows us to see alcohols (see this), involving -OH as a key structural element, in a new light. Pollack effect could induce a kind of elevated state of mind. Psychedelics (see this) involve -NH as a key structural element and Pollack effect inducing the transition NH → N^- + dark proton could be essential element of the psychedelic action.
4. The amazing finding is that in transistors the energy scales are the same, varying from about .5 eV (the metabolic energy quantum) to .15 eV (the energy of thermal photon at physiological temperature) as assigned to OH+O^- qubits. Therefore computers might under certain condition become conscious entities as speculated already earlier (see see this and see this) and qubits could in the same relation to bits as dark qubits in information DNA and RNA to the bits of the genetic codons. This relation allows dynamics since only the minimum energy state of the codon corresponds to the chemical codon. Same would be true for computers. The gravitational magnetic body of Earth could receive information from the bit level and control it.

1.2. Zero energy ontology

Zero energy ontology is a key notion of TGD and TGD inspired theory of consciousness and solves the basic paradox of the quantum measurement theory.

1. ZEO predicts two kinds of state function reductions (SFRs): the "big" ones (BSFRs) and the "small" ones (SSFRs). The sequence of SSFRs means in standard quantum theory repeated measurements of the same observables and gives rise to conscious entities, selves.
2. BSFRs change the arrow of time and from the point of view of self this means death or falling asleep. ZEO predicts that roughly half of the Universe has an opposite arrow of time. This part of the Universe might be called a "kingdom of dead".

   Indeed, biological death changes the arrow of time in rather long scales and means reincarnation with an opposite arrow of time, eventually possibly followed by a reincarnation with an original arrow of time. Sleep is a temporary death in this sense.

2. A TGD inspired comment about the mythology of the ancient Egypt

The mythology of ancient Egypt has many analogies with the ontology of the TGD inspired view of consciousness.

1. The mythology of ancient Egypt suggests an interpretation in terms of zero energy ontology (ZEO). The "kingdom of dead" is non-observable using purely classical signalling since the signals from the other side propagate to the geometric past and do not reach us. Therefore we do not remember anything about the periods of deep sleep. The notion of ka fits nicely with this.

   "Big" quantum jumps (state function reductions, BSFRs) occurring in arbitrary long scales are predicted to be possible and rain making could involve such a pair of BSFRs and thus a visit to the "kingdom of dead" at some level of hierarchy. Trance of a shaman could be such a visit.

2. There is connection to the recent work involving OH-O^- qubit idea already described, possibly unifying plasmoid-, quartz -, computer-, and biological consciousness (see this).

3. A TGD inspired model for rainmaking

As the title "The Egyptian Pyramids-Connection to Rain and Nile flood Anomalies" of the article suggests, it is propoposed that pyramids had a deeper purpose: they could be used to induce rain. This sounds madness in the ears of a standard physicist but in 1895, Charles Wilson, a physicist, meteorologist, and Nobel Prize winner, made a groundbreaking discovery: he proved that rain could be artificially created. The rain making technology has been also commercialized.

The key idea in making rain is that a generation of the negative electric charge in the quartz contained by the soil leads to its accumulation to the atmosphere. The negative electric charge in the atmosphere in turn facilitates the formation of water droplets around them and eventually this induces rain. Could TGD explain this?

3.1 The model of Borisov Consider first the proposal of the article of Borisov.

1. A deceased king, along with jars containing provisions for the afterlife, is placed inside a coffer, which is a hermetically sealed volume, The jars contain beer, bread, grain, ox, and sweets. The provisions within the jars undergo fermentation, where yeast converts the sugars present in food into carbon dioxide, water, or ethanol. This process can occur within a sealed coffer with no air intake, as long as the necessary conditions for yeast growth are provided. Some studies have found that fatty acids present in ox meat are essential for sustaining this growth.
2. The carbon dioxide generated by the process cannot escape and increases the pressure in the coffer of which 40 percent is quartz. The pressure in turn generates by piezoelectric effect (see this) an electric field generating negatively charged ions, which would move through the moist lime-stone core of the pyramid towards its apex and would be eventually emitted.

3.2 The TGD based interpretation of the model of Borisov

Consider the TGD interpretation of this model.

1. The transition OH → O^- + dark proton at gravitational magnetic body of the Earth (or Sun) occurs in quartz subject to electric field or under pressure in an electric field (piezoelectric effect transforming pressure gradient to electric field) and would generate negative ions.
2. In the case of a pyramid, the negative ions from quartz could flow to the tip of the pyramid and generate a high density of negative charge and strong electric field. From the tip the negative charges could flow to the atmosphere and serve as seats for the condensation of water droplets. Note that water is the key element of TGD inspired biology: Pollack effect would generate negative charged exclusion zones and dark protons at the gravitational magnetic body.
3. The presence of electric fields changes the energies of electrons of O^- and by driving the difference of bonding energy and binding energy near the thermal energy, can make the system very sensitive to the transitions between the OH-O- qubits. Quartz is a piezoelectet so that pressure gradients generate an electric field and have the same effect.
4. The TGD interpretation is that the electric fields increase the sensitivity of quartz to the generation of O^- ions plus dark protons at the gravitational monopole flux tubes. To some extent the system would become living.

   Fermentation (see this) creates alcohols, which contain the characteristic -OH group (OH → O^- + dark proton). Also the basic information molecules of biology contain -OH groups and -NH groups and the same mechanism could be at work.

   Does this process occur in the body of the king? Mummification means dehydration so that all moisture is removed so that the metabolism does not occur and the body does not decay. At the molecular level, dehydration reaction means that water molecules are removed from a molecule or ion. This can mean a removal of OH groups (see this). The basic information molecules contain -OH groups and -NH groups. This would suggest that in the mummified body the analog of the Pollack effect producing O^- and N^- qubits is not possible.

5. Could some kind of collective consciousness assignable to quartz and water in the atmosphere wake up during rain making and induce the rain as a pair of macroscopic BSFRs? Ths would have no explanation in the framework of standard physics and in this sense would be literally a miracle, which we however experience every night and morning.

See the article About long range electromagnetic quantum coherence in TGD Universe or the chapter with the same title.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.