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This is my point of view
By
Muhammad Yousaf Gabriel
Oqasaorg@gmail.com
I find myself quite at
a loss to observe that although the peculiar and particular
characteristics of the nuclear phenomenon, the characteristics
which distinguish and differentiate the nuclear phenomenon from
the rest of the phenomena e.g. chemical, electrical,
gravitational etc. are found in the text books of nuclear
science, they are nowhere (as for as my humble knowledge goes )
to be found in a chart in the form of comparison and contrast
against the nonnuclear phenomena, I have myself spent quite some
time in my endeavour in this respect, and, as a result I have
found the following points. You are requested to give your
remarks in the light of your superior knowledge, and to make
additions where possible. If a point falls out of your
particular line of study, you can easily find in the relevant
text books of the high order. I have not quoted the sources,
because the points mentioned are well-established facts. My
points are :-
I. The nuclear phenomenon
is a breaker, rather an absolute crusher, because
(a) The atomic energy is
generated by breaking the binding of the atomic nucleus.
It is not so with any other type of energy.
(b) The breaking and crushing
in the nuclear phenomenon is absolute. Atom once crushed could
not be reconstructed by any synthetic process. Nucleus
once disintegrated could in no way e rearranged in its
previous form. So absolutely complete is the process of
destruction in nuclear phenomenon that both the basic
building block of the universe that is "atom" and the basic
unit of life that is the "cell" is involved in the crushing
process of the nuclear phenomenon, while in chemical or
electrical process the nucleus remains untouched.
(c) The atomic radiations
that are inherent in the very nature of the nuclear
phenomenon shows the identical trait of breaking and crushing.
In inanimate matter they break the atomic nuclear and cause
transmutations of atoms by changing the form of their
nuclei while in living bodies they attack the cell
nucleus and break the chromosome thereof, whereas in
chemical or electrical process, atomic nuclei remain
untouched.
(d) The German term "
Bremsstrahlung" coined by the Germans for " continuous
spectrum of rays " is highly descriptive for, it literally means
breaking radiations.
(e) The heat-flash of the
atomic bomb crushes its victims with the shock, while
conventional bomb cannot show that trait. Crushing the
structures is a feature common between the nuclear and the
conventional bomb, but what is the crushing of the conventional
bomb against that wrought by the nuclear bomb. The
radiations emitted by the atomic explosion carry on
their crushing process in their usual way.
(f) The scientists are well
aware of this crushing trait of the nuclear phenomenon, and
they differentiate this peculiar feature of the nuclear
phenomenon with conspicuity. The reader may observe while
reading the standard text books of nuclear physics, terms as
the following " bombarding, crushing, hitting,
breaking" to describe the actions taking place in
atomic phenomenon. Likewise, the reader meets in the text
books of Radio-biology phrases like " target concept",
" Direct Action", " Indirect Action", " snapping the cable
with a bullet", " breaking the chromosomes", and sentence like "
radiations hit the cells like sledge hammer and crush them". All
these and many other describing the crushing trait of
radiations. To these may be added the words of Rutherford that expressed his astonishment at the crushing trait of the atomic
particles. After his famous experiment in which he had
bombarded the Gold Foil with Alpha Particle, he wrote in his
diary, " It was as incredible as if you fired a 15 inch shell
at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
It was a most incredible moment that ever happened to me
in my life", wrote
Rutherford.
II. The difference of atomic
fire and chemical fire
(a) It is not
possible to raise the temperature of chemical fire to that
of atomic fire which latter could rise to millions of degrees.
(b) The magnitude of atomic
fire, those that are originally produced by the atomic bomb
explosions, and also those that are started by the heat
produced by the atomic bomb explosion is a distinction of the
nuclear f fire in comparison to the chemical fire.
III. Nuclear fire and heart
During my studies of
nuclear science and radiobiology I have observed in Terminology,
facts and the statements of the scientists that the nuclear fire
has a very distinctive concern with and a peculiar attraction
for the heart and all that is associated with heart. Although I
have made my observation from the works and statements of the
Physicists and Radiobiologists, yet it is strange that none of
them has made any such surmise hitherto. My surmise is supported
by the following facts, and it shows a distinguishing
characteristic of the nuclear phenomenon as against the
chemicals:-
(a) atomic phenomenon
actually is the nuclear phenomenon because the action
takes place within the nucleus of the atom both in the fission
as well as the fusion process. Nucleus is synonymous with
heart, and is identical in certain qualities, such as if nucleus
dies its atom dies. And if heart dies, the body dies. That
the scientist has accepted and adopted the synonymity
of the nucleus and heart may be found very frequently in
the text books of nuclear Physics and the statements of the
scientists.For example (a) " Each fast particle comes from
the break up of the very heart of the single atom ( the
nucleus) of the Radioactive Material ". ( Vide Physics
: Physical Science Study Committee -2nd edition - D.C.
Heath and Company Lexinton, Massachusetts, July 1965 page 130
).(b) " How many nuclear heart-beats are in the life-time of a
radioactive nucleus which lasts only billionth of a second
" (Ibid page 21 short problems).
Edward Teller, famous
maker of the Hydrogen Bomb spoke in one of his lecture in 1939,
of taking energy from the heart of atom.
The term thermonuclear
may be translated as heat(fire) connected with heart(nucleus ).
The best spectacle of this fire ---- heart connection could be
viewed in the Hydrogen bomb called the Thermonuclear bomb, where
the heat(fire) produced in the inner fission device leaps up
onto the nuclei(hearts) of the atoms of the outer fusile
material.
Nuclear Radiations too
distinctively show this preference to heart and all that is
associated with heart in the living body The following points
may be noticed as the proof:-
(a) both in the
inanimate and living bodies the radiations have their
action in the nuclei,
(b) radiations effect the
coordination of the function in a living body at a level
where it is beyond the control of the brain. It may be suggested
that the level nears the heart
(c) bone-marrow and all the
blood organs are more sensitive to the effects of radiations
than the brain, the nerves and the muscles. The relation of
bone-marrow that forms blood, and the relation of blood-forming
organs to heart is obvious.
(d) multicellular organism
are more sensitive to radiation than the unicellular
organism. My suggestion is that it is because of the better
developed circulatory and respiratory systems of the
multicellular organism. While the connection between the
circulatory and respiratory systems and heart is obvious.
(e) the effect of radiation
is retarded in the absence of oxygen. Again the relation
between oxygen and heart is well-known.
(f) heat-flash of the atomic
bomb kills its victim through shock to the heart, just as the
electric shock of the electric current does.
Obviously these
nuclear, thermonuclear qualities, and the quality of
particular attraction of heart are not to be found in chemical
phenomenon, and therefore these qualities could be taken
as qualities that distinguish the nuclear phenomenon
from chemical phenomenon.
IV. Nuclear Phenomenon has
extremely tenacious attitude and shows characteristics of
encompassing
These are the qualities
that nowhere be observed in the chemical phenomenon to the
extent. The following examples may clarify the point:-
1. The radioactive fallout
enclosures of local and global kind appearing in the atomic bomb
and thermonuclear bomb explosion.
2. The tenacity of the
bone-seeking radioactive materials.
3. The appearance of cancer
after six to thirty years after the exposure to radiation.
4. The appearance of the
effects of radiation on the cell in anaphase inspite
of the attack of radiation on the cell in its resting stage. As
if radiation kept a watch during the interval.
5. The encompassment of the
whole body by radiation effects even if one organ only has
been irradiated.
6. The survival of the
lethally irradiated frogs for many months instead of dying in
the usual time interval of three to six week if kept in a
dormant state at a low temperature just above freezing point
conditional to the appearance of radiation symptoms as
soon as the frogs are warmed up and then the occurrence of
their death in the usual time interval that of three
to six weeks, as if radiation has kept guard over the frogs,
during their dormant state.
7. Alexander Haddow's
suggestion that the cancerproducing action of the
cancer-producing substances might be the result of prolonged
interference with normal growth.
8. The encompassment of
mankind to generations by radiation, even to the point
of extinction of humanity through long-term,m radio-genetic
effects, and thereafter, the encompassment of earth for
millions of years due to the wide-spread radioactive
substances dispersed during the atomic war. And also the
encompassment of earth by radiations during the age of
full-fledged nuclearenergy-for-peace, when every power
house, ship, factory, railway engine, aeroplane and motor car
will have its own reactor.
Nuclear phenomenon is a
column raising phenomenon
Nuclear phenomenon is a
column raising phenomenon , so that the columns raised by
nuclear phenomenon are distinctive feature in comparison to
the chemical phenomenon. Hiroshima nuclear bomb raised a
column about four miles high , whereas the 20 megaton
thermonuclear bomb raises a column 20 miles high.
And now respecting this
column raising feature of nuclear phenomenon, I point out
another surmise which indeed is my own, for, you will never see
that surmise made by any other scientist anywhere. It has
occurred to me that the column is raised not only by the atomic
bomb explosion but rather the entire world of radioactivity
appears to me as the world of columns. Of the hundred examples
two only will clarify the point. Firstly the height of four
centimeters, the height to which the Alpha Particle rises during
its emission, when judged in comparison to the tiny size of the
Alpha Particle, certainly appears as a column of a height indeed
incredible. Take a foot ball and shoot upward to a height which
has the same ratio to its diameter as the four centimeter has to
the diameter of the Alpha Particle, and then to your amazement
you will see the foot ball to disappear into other outer space
never to return to the earth. The second example may be given
that of the cosmic rays coming from the outer space to our
earth. Just imagine to what incredibly dizzying height they have
risen to form their columns .
These are some humble
observations which I a solitary way fairer on the road of
science have to communicate to those fortunate that wield
authority in the realm of science with a humble request for
their attention. The facts nuclear physics stated in these pages
are such as could be found any standard text book of nuclear
physics, whereas the facts of radio-biology could be found in
Peter Alexander's " Life and Radiation ", a worthy and reliable
work on Radiobiology research, or indeed in any other work of
that stature published in britain or USA. You can if you deem it
fit get this article published in any scientific journal. In
that case you may be justly expected to send me a copy of the
issue of the journal, for my information or at least to quote
the reference, although it is very difficult , at times
impossible to get the copy of the journal published in those
parts of the world. I think at least two points, i.e. the point
of radiation's attraction for heart, and the column raising
quality of radioactive particles would excite some interest
among the scientific circles. Or you may read this article in a
meeting of knowledgeable scientists, and ask for their remarks
which ought to be communicated to me. I request you to study
this article carefully and then send me your remarks. Judging in
the light of your superior knowledge and better circumstances it
may not be amiss to expect some valuable additions to the points
that are raised in the article. You cannot imagine how happy and
how deeply grateful I will feel for your kind cooperation.
Thanks
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