Could the notions of quantum geology and quantum biology make sense?

I have carried out a considerable work to fuse the existing TGD inspired ideas about the geological and biological   evolution of life  on Earth to a single coherent whole.  The strategy is to identify weak points of the existing vision and here the language models provide an extremely powerful tool.

 The evolution of life on Earth encountered several bottlenecks. In the  beginning, the generation of nitrogen atoms from N₂ molecules, having a very large binding energy, was made possible by the presence of volcanoes but soon it became ineffective.  Bacteria invented the nitrogenase enzyme for which oxygen was a poison.  Later  bacteria invented oxygen breathing and photosynthesis releasing oxygen as a waste. This led to the Great Oxygenation Event meaning a catastrophe destroying most bacteria. Ways to avoid   the destruction of nitrogenase were invented.

The sudden emergence of highly evolved multicellular life forms in Cambrian Explosion (CE)  with almost no fossils intermediate between them and monocellulars is an unsolved mystery.  It served as  the starting point of the development of  the TGD based view of biological and geological evolution of Earth. There is evidence that the continents of the Earth fit nicely together along the boundaries if the radius of the Earth is taken 1/2 of the recent radius. This inspires the proposal that CE involved a rapid expansion of the radius of Earth in a geologically short time interval and the multicellular life forms evolved in underground oceans before the CE.

This leads to what might be called quantum geology or rather, a combination of quantum geology and quantum biology.

1. The contraction of the Earth radius by factor 1/2 implies the increase of the density by factor 8. In the framework of standard model physics  implies a huge increase of pressure and temperature and life could not have evolved in underground water reservoirs  if they could be even  present.  Large scale quantum coherence could however change the situation.
2.  The liberated gravitational and  atomic binding energies would  have served as a metabolic energy  increasing the value of h_eff (a measure for complexity) and  given rise to phases of matter  labelled by biologically important p-adic length scales.  Assuming  that repulsive Coulomb energies decreased and that the  allowed p-adic integers k  are primes, a simple scaling argument implies that biologically relevant p-adic length scales characterize the quantum coherence regions space-time sheets.

The compression would have induced a Pollack effect, which transferred protons and possibly also  other alkali ions from the silicate (SiO₄^-4) lattice  of the mantle to the gravitational magnetic body of the Earth characterized by a huge value of gravitational Planck constant ℏ_gr so that the system became quantum coherent in astrophysical length scales. The dramatic reduction of the number of  translational degrees of freedom  implied that the pressure and temperature could remain in the physiological range and multicellular life could evolve in underground water reservoirs and emerge to the surface in Cambrian Explosion involving an expansion of the Earh radius by factor 2.

The model suggests that the compression and expansion phases could have taken place in two steps. During the first step of the compression phase the particles of the upper mantle would have been transferred to   lower harmonic oscillator states. During the  second step this would have happened to the particles of the lower mantle.  One of the key questions is whether the oceans were at the surface of Earth before CE or not: also this question I try to answer in the sequel.

This picture provides a qualitative understanding of the geological evolution, including formation of old mountains before the first step of contraction and emergence of plate tectonics after it. Also oceans could have emerged already in the first step. The model explains why the tectonic plates for the oceanic crust differ from those for the continental crust.

See the article Could the notions of quantum geology and quantum biology make sense? 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.