The discovery of geobatteries as manganese nodules at deep sea floor and the TGD view of evolution of life

The new view of space-time and quantum motivates one of the most radical proposals of TGD inspired view of quantum biology stating that the life could have evolved in underground oceans and bursted to the surface in Cambrian Explosion that occurred about .5 billion years ago as the radius of the Earth increased by factor 2. This picture is motivated by the TGD view of cosmic expansion as a sequence of rapid expansions rather than smooth expansion and by the finding that the continents fit nicely together if the radius of the Earth is by a factor 1/2 smaller. The reason for the rapid expansion would have been a huge nuclear explosion in the interior of Earth as dark fusion in which dark nuclei transformed to ordinary nuclei and liberated almost all nuclear binding energy. Similar explosion would have generated the Moon and the moons of Mars (see this).

The presence of multicellular life forms requires photosynthesis but according to the standard physics, solar radiation cannot reach the Earth's interior. A possible solution of the problem is that the light arrived from the Earth's interior as dark photons during the era before CE when nuclei were dark and formed a quantum coherent state in the scale of Earth.

One can also wonder where the oxygen needed for cell respiration came from. The answer to this question is suggested recently found evidence that electrolysis decomposing water to hydrogen and oxygen is possible in the metal nodules at the deep ocean floor (see this). The manganese (Mn) nodules are coal-like metallic lumps. Mn has atomic number 25 and mass number 55 and behaves therefore like fermion. It is often associated with iron with atomic number 26 and mass number 56. Nodules are rich in metals, specifically manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium.

The nodules act as natural "geobatteries" carrying a charge similar to that of a 1.5 V battery. The batteries are able to split seawater to oxygen and hydrogen. These potato-sized mineral formations, found thousands of meters below the surface, were observed producing measurable amounts of oxygen in complete darkness without sunlight or photosynthesis. The metals could act as catalysts: TGD suggests that dark metal ions with large values of $h_{eff}$ were involved.

Could these nodules appear also in underground oceans and make possible evolution of photosynthetizing life by producing the needed oxygen? The energy source could still be the dark photon radiation from the interior of Earth but the oxygen needed for cell respiration would be produced by the counterparts of nodules. See the article About the TGD based models for Cambrian Explosion and the formation of planets and Moon 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.