The classics were mistaken when by life they meant the mode of existence of only protein bodies. It turns out that in the nature around us, life is glimmering in everything, including the Earth itself, other Planets solar system and the Sun itself, as well as distant Stars and Planets in the Universe, including the movement of stones in the space of the Cosmos.

Therefore, it seems to me that life forms based on ... silicon and calcium have received the greatest distribution everywhere and everywhere. This silicic-calcium world is inhabited by well-known stones from grains of sand to multi-ton boulders and high mountains. Representatives of the silicic-calcium world transform into plants and animal skeletons, including corals. Stones, perhaps, do not live by themselves, but are an integral part of the "organism" of our Planet and fulfill the tasks assigned to them. certain functions. Many of us are either simply unaware of this, or express disagreement. But individual observant minds and inquisitive researchers over the past centuries have revealed many interesting cases from the life of stones - the first settlers of the Earth.

For example, in the US state of California in the US national reserve "Death Valley" stones ranging in size from a small cobblestone to a huge boulder weighing half a ton make strange walks along the bottom of the dried-up lake Restrake Playa (Racetrack Playa). This is the hottest place on Earth. So, the temperature was up to +50 degrees Celsius here in 1917 for 43 days. The stones move alone and in groups slowly, sometimes in a zigzag manner, overcoming tens of meters of the path and leaving clearly visible traces in the sandy soil. They do not roll, do not rotate, but crawl along the surface, leaving uniform furrows behind them, as if someone invisible is pulling them along. Boulders and against the wind, and climb up slightly inclined surfaces. Experts have repeatedly tried to fix the movements of restless boulders, but so far to no avail: people can’t catch the boulders at the time of travel. However, as soon as the observers move a little to the side, away from the objects of their observation, they begin to move - sometimes up to half a meter per hour.

Since the early 1950s, maps have been compiled of traces of the movement of the Racetrack stones. NYU Graduate Student in Geosciences and Problems environment Paula Messina, together with her colleague Phil Stoffer, made their first detailed maps in 1996 using the latest computer technology. Each of the 162 boulders and traces of their movement were photographed, their coordinates were taken. The longest track was found on a pebble-sized dolomite stone - it stretches in an almost straight line for 900 meters. The average length of such a trail is about 200 meters. The final map made it possible to reveal a high degree of consistency in the direction of traces of movement (stones mainly slide to the north and northeast). The straightness and length of the tracks do not depend on the size and shape of the stones, but are determined by the geographical place where the movement began. A general analysis of the relief of the valley showed that there are two natural corridors of entry into it air masses, which become turbulent at some points of penetration. It is the terrain and air currents, according to the researcher, that determine the nature of the traces of movement, and not the properties of the stones themselves. However, so far none of the scientists have seen how the "creeping" stones of the Death Valley slide...

There are many traveling stones in the area of ​​the so-called grand canyon. By the way, there is practically no vegetation in this canyon, as the pebbles moving back and forth plowed everything on their way. And in England in Wales, the Stone of King Arthur periodically creeps up to the seashore, the mass of which is 25 tons (4 m long, 2 wide, 2.5 high), so that, as they say locals, "drink" salt water. Today it is an object of pilgrimage for tourists in Wales.

There are those who, on the contrary, do not want to move. In the English county of Essex, during the Second World War, a granite boulder that had grown into the ground was moved to the side by a bulldozer widening the road. Magazines and newspapers of that time wrote that in the church belfry, which was empty and locked, bells began to ring by themselves, heavy logs and agricultural implements flew through the air. The inhabitants of the village, together with the builders, returned the stone to its original place, performing the appropriate ancient magical rituals. And everything calmed down.

While scientists are arguing, people in legends, fairy tales talk about the “animation” of stones. In Cornwall there is a complex of Dancing Stones. It consists of 19 rocks set at regular intervals along the perimeter of a circle with a diameter of 25 meters, and also includes two menhirs - vertically standing stones four and five meters high, set four miles from the "dancing" stone circle. The legend speaks of cheerful girls who, in ancient times, together with two pipers, danced and had fun all Sunday, but did not go to church, and as a punishment for this, the girls turned into a stone circle, and two pipers froze not far from them with standing stones. In 1907, an Englishman purchased the farm that contained the Dancing Stones and ordered one of his workers to remove them from the field. The next day, a Cornish worker began to uproot the first stone, but the root horse of his team was frightened, reared up and fell to the ground dead. The English farmer did not experiment anymore, and the stones remained in their original place.

The group of stones in Rollright (Oxfordshire) consists of 77 cromlech stones (megalithic circle) with a diameter of 31.4 meters, as well as the King's Stone menhir and the Whispering Knight mound. According to legend, it was prophesied to an ancient warlord that if he could glimpse Long Compton even once, he would become King of England. However, when the commander and his army were already at a distance of several yards from the place from which it was possible to see the city, the sorcerer turned them into stones: “Disappear a man, a stone appears! You will never be King of England!"

Another of the most mysterious "living" stones is located in Tibet near one of Buddhist monasteries. He not only crawls, but also climbs uphill. And this is with a weight of 1100 kilograms! So he travels already over a thousand years. Moreover, the stone moves along a strict route: it climbs a mountain 2560 meters high, descends from it and then winds circles. It takes an average of 15 years to ascend and descend from the stone. A circular route 60 kilometers long takes 50 years. Studying this phenomenon, experts determined the age of the stone at approximately 50 million years.

In the south-west of Russia, in the Rostov steppes, the Gypsy stone crawls. And not far from the village of Gorodishche near Pereslavl-Zalessky, there is also a reveler stone weighing 12 tons. This is the legendary Blue Stone. According to ancient Russian legends, a spirit lives in this stone, fulfilling dreams and desires. For more than 2000 years, Sin-Stone has been an object of religious worship of the Slavs. Once he lay on the top of the Yarilina Plesha adjacent to the lake - the sacred hill of the god Yarila and was revered as the heart of this solar god. With the advent of Christianity in Russia, the churches stood on the sites of the former Slavic sanctuaries and temples. So a church was erected on the Yarila hill. But the church burned down. The palace of Prince Alexander Nevsky was built on this site. And he collapsed. They built a monastery - and it turned into dust.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the church entered into a struggle with a pagan relic. The deacon of the Pereslavl-Semyonov Church, Father Onufry, ordered to dig a large hole and throw the Blue Stone into it. But 15 years later, the boulder mysteriously peeked out of the ground. After 150 years, the church authorities of Pereslavl decided to lay a "magic" stone at the base of the foundation of the local church bell tower. The stone was loaded onto a sled and taken across the ice of Lake Pleshcheyevo (an area of ​​50 sq. km, the depth of the lake is up to 25 meters). The ice broke, and the Blue Stone sank at a depth of five meters. But soon the fishermen began to notice that the boulder was changing its location in an unknown way, slowly moving along the bottom. Forty years later, he ended up on the shore at the foot of Yarilina Mountain, where he still lies. But now the Blue Stone goes underground - this is the conclusion made by the researchers based on the measurements of 1998-2002 and 2004.

In the 1960s, British scientists discovered and fixed energy power channels that entangle the entire surface of the Earth. Like other ancient peoples, the Slavs built their sanctuaries and temples at the intersection of energy power channels. It is at the intersection of such channels that Lake Pleshcheyevo is located.

In the Far East, in the Amur Region, not far from Lake Bolon, there is a one and a half ton boulder of an almost round shape, which the locals called the Dead Stone. Dead, he is dead, but he also loves to travel! Either he lies calmly in one place for several months, then he suddenly begins to move. It is worshiped by all the local Evenki, who believe that the most evil spirits live in it.

On the banks of the Usa River - the right tributary of the Pechora - stone structures were found that outwardly resemble Stonehenge. There is a very strange place in the tundra that reindeer herders are afraid to approach. On the hill there are about a dozen stones the size of a man, arranged by someone in a certain order. When people drive past these megalithic statues, one gets the impression that the giants are starting to run from place to place. This is where the name of this complex comes from - Surberta, which means “running” in Nenets. Most of the Pechora megaliths are located on the southeastern coast of the Usa or even closer to the mountains of the Subpolar Urals. Among them is a "ring thrown on the ground" - an object of stone pillars seven to eight meters high, standing so long ago that everyone considers their origin to be natural. On the river with the name Seyda (seidami northern peoples are called sacred boulders) there are even more megaliths. There are rumors that there are larger megaliths on the banks of some other river, but local residents recommend: “It’s better not to go there, no one has ever returned from there.”

Amazing stones can be found in the center and south of Romania. Trovants - that's what the locals call them. It turns out that these stones can not only grow, but, much to their surprise, multiply. Basically, these stones are devoid of sharp chips, they have a rounded or streamlined shape. There are a lot of different boulders in these areas, from which these unique trovant stones are not much different. However, after the rain, incredible events happen to trovants: they grow like mushrooms, increasing in size. So, for example, a small trovant, which weighs only a few grams, can eventually grow to a gigantic size and weigh more than a ton. The older the stone, the slower it grows. Young stones grow faster. The main component of growing trovant stones is sandstone.

In terms of their internal structure, they also look unusual: if you cut a stone in half, then on a cut that looks like a saw cut of a tree, you can see several so-called age rings centered around a small solid core. But, nevertheless, geologists are in no hurry to attribute trovants to the category of phenomena inexplicable to science, despite their amazing origin. Scientists have come to the conclusion that growing stones, although unusual, their nature can be easily explained. Geologists are sure that trovants are just the results of long-term sand cementation processes that have been going on for millions of years in the bowels of the earth. And with the help of strong seismic activity, such stones are on the surface. Scientists have also found an explanation for the growth of trovants: the stones increase in size due to the high content of various mineral salts under their shell. When the surface gets wet, these chemical compounds begin to expand and press on the sand, causing the stone to "grow".

Nevertheless, there is one feature of the Trovants that geologists are unable to explain. Living stones, in addition to growing, are also able to multiply. It happens like this: after the surface of the stone gets wet, a slight bulge appears on it. Over time, it grows, but when the weight of the new stone becomes large enough, it breaks off from the mother.

The structure of the new trovants is the same as that of other, older stones. There is also a core inside, which is the main mystery for scientists. If the growth of the stone can be somehow explained with scientific point vision, then the process of dividing the stone core defies any logic. In general, the process of reproduction of trovants resembles budding, which is why some experts seriously thought about the question of whether they are a hitherto unknown inorganic life form. Marked for some trovants and another fantastic ability. Like the famous crawling rocks from California's Death Valley Preserve, they sometimes move from place to place.

By the way, stones not only travel on the ground. In 1990, in Ontario, Canada, heavy boulders flew into the sky with ease. A similar situation was repeated in the same year in America, in Arkansas. Well, there are many cases when stones suddenly fell from the sky. So, in March 1888 in Kesterton, England, a 5-kilogram piece of quartz fell out; in 1960, in the US state of Illinois, a heavy cobblestone appeared in the middle of a plowed field; in Oklahoma in 1973 there was a real rockfall - several tons of stones fell to the ground in a short time. An interesting fact is that often in places where large stones fall, there are no noticeable impact marks. It seems that the stones, contrary to the laws of physics, lost speed when falling, or the height of their fall was insignificant. A turkey hunter named Gobbler stumbled upon a 120 x 30 cm stone in the crown of a 25 meter tree in Yellowwood Forest. Later, in the same forest, two more similar blocks were found hanging among the branches. None of the branches are broken, so it was not the winds and hurricanes that threw them there. Since young growing trees would not be able to lift a load of about two hundred kilograms into the air, it is obvious that these stones were on the trees after they had grown. In Kingston, Ohio, stones lying in two fields climbed out of the ground to a height of a meter and a half in a few days, after which they slowly began to move, moving away from their original location at a distance of up to 12 meters, and some of them even climbed to the tops trees!

And on the moon, stones move! Two moving stones with traces of their journey in opposite directions were recorded in the Vitellius crater. The length of their tracks is 270 and 360 meters. An interesting fact is that one of the stones climbed up the crater wall!

In the distant past, however paradoxical it may sound, people knew much more about stones and knew how to use them in scientific purposes. On Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, rises one of the most mysterious prehistoric monuments - Stonehenge. For centuries, scientists have been trying to unravel the origin and purpose of the stone complex. Archaeologists now agree that this architectural monument was erected in three stages between 3500 and 1100 years. BC. The design, the craftsmanship, the time and the enormous labor involved in building Stonehenge clearly indicate its importance to those who built it. Also in XVIII century scientists drew attention to the fact that the stones are oriented to certain periods of the solar-lunar cycles, which indicates the possible use of the structure for astronomical purposes.

In Agni Yoga it is said that a stone lives on Earth, which fell from the constellation of Orion. Its main part is located in Shambhala, and only a small piece travels around the world, maintaining a connection with the "mother's" body. The advantages of this version include the fact that it takes into account the veneration by the Slavs and other ancient peoples of such stones as sacred. The symbol of the Kupala cult, which survived until the middle of the 19th century, was the Kremlin stone of Beles. Relics of this kind Slavic symbols still exist: Jesters stone in Dmitrovsky district Moscow region, God-stone near Tula, Kindyakovsky Stone, Sin-Stone on Lake Pleshcheyevo, Horse-Stone on the river beautiful sword. All of them were also objects of official worship of the Slavs in pre-Christian times.

On Borovitsky hill (Bor - one of the names of Veles) was the sanctuary of Kupala; later on this place, as well as on all other sacred Slavic places, was built Christian church- The Nativity of John the Baptist, the first in Moscow, better known as the Church of St. War. Even in relatively recent times, in the 16th century, rituals of a magical nature were performed at the Kremlin stone: Tsarevich Dimitry Uglitsky was taken to him to alleviate the suffering from epilepsy. In the 18th century, small children were placed on this stone, which stood in the temple in front of the image of Saint Ouar, praying for their healing. And only in 1848, at the behest of Nicholas I, the officials of the Moscow Palace Administration ordered the demolition of the Church of St. War and the removal of the Kremlin stone. Under the dismantled altar of the temple, the remains of ancient offerings to Veles were found. The demolition of the temple caused such noticeable protests in the capital that the officials had to report on the reasons for them to the sovereign, and the Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret - to address the Muscovites with special word"to calm and comfort those who mourned the destruction of the ancient temple."

Similar beliefs are known among other peoples. Ethnographers described three cult stones on the islands of the West Indies: one brought the harvest, the other assisted in childbirth, the third caused the sun or rain as needed. The Peruvian Indians believed that there were birds inside the sacred stones - the personification of the spirit embodied in them. The Fijians believed that stones could act as husbands and wives and even have children. In India, a stone under a tree symbolizes the soul of a holy righteous man; grave stone slabs in modern burial culture apparently date back to this archetype. In a number of agricultural traditions, it was customary to put painted stones on the fields as their guardians. In many Indian villages, stones are worshiped as incarnations of the deity Iglwe.

Among Indian women, the worship of a stone symbolizing the patroness of children, Shaliti, is widespread. The Arabs worshiped the black stone in Mecca long before the birth of Muhammad. Some modern researchers believe that it is of meteoric origin. According to devout Muslims, the angel turned into stone. Initially, it was white, but it turned black from the touch of numerous sinners; when will it happen Last Judgment, the black stone will turn white again. The ancient Greeks revered the gods in the form of unhewn stones, and later - stone statues. In Greek mythology, the baby Zeus - the future supreme god - was replaced with a stone. The Iranian god Mithra was born from a stone. In the Bible, David beats Goliath with a stone. In Christianity, Peter (Greek "stone") Jesus called the apostle Simon Zebedee. The sacred sword of King Arthur was extracted from the stone, which was evidence of its royal origin. The Celtic Power Stone Lia Fal was revered in Ireland no less than the Grail and the Spear of Destiny associated with it according to legend. The worship of stones was extremely widespread in medieval Europe. Astrologers established correspondences between stones and signs of the Zodiac, stones and planets. The purpose of the alchemists was to find Philosopher's Stone. In the Masonic tradition, the stone symbolizes the profane state of man. Members of Masonic lodges call themselves "freemasons", likening their declared goal - correction human nature- stone processing.

In a number of cases, ordinary stones were also used to maintain religious sentiments among fellow tribesmen. The floating boulder from Khed is a miracle that seems to defy the law of gravity: 11 people gather around a 90-kilogram block of granite, each of them hooks it with the tip of the index finger of their right hand, and, chanting the name of the ancient saint, they lift the stone. A heavy boulder is easily over their heads and hangs in the air for a moment. Thousands of people watched this "trick". Some claim that the stone rises to a height of about 3 m and floats freely for several seconds before falling to the ground. It takes the strength of a weightlifter to lift 90 kg, and someone who can throw such a weight up would challenge Olympic record holders. Is it possible that such a miraculous effect is produced by the glorification of the name of the saint, accompanying the rise of the boulder? Faith in the power of sacred texts - mantras - coupled with the excitement of the crowd obscures a simple explanation: if 90 kg are distributed equally among 11 participants in the "miracle", each will have a little more than 8 kg.

Flint life, under certain conditions, willingly populates the organic remains of dead animals, delicately and extremely slowly penetrating into the bones of the skeleton and replacing organic matter, without changing its architecture. This is a typical pseudomorphosis or false form. For example, the bones of ancient dinosaurs were preserved thanks to the phenomenon of pseudomorphosis. Their chemical composition has nothing to do with bone tissue. Fossil bones of reptiles are essentially casts recreated as a result of the vital activity of the flint world. In one case, they turn out to be chalcedony, like in Mongolian dinosaurs, in the other, apatite, like in lizards from the territory of Colorado. Fossilized bones only change color, become noticeably heavier and dehydrated. The same thing happens with the organic remains of ancient plants. The tree trunk turns into stone, preserving the internal structure of the once living tree.

In Australia, unusual belemnites were discovered (cephalopods that were widespread on Earth in the Mesozoic era) - their remains were replaced by precious opal, which the Green Continent is so famous for. In Argentina, found cones of araucaria (giant coniferous trees growing in the time of the dinosaurs). Agate so carefully repeated all the details of the structure of the cones, as if they had just fallen from a tree. Penetration of the stone into the body occurs in at least two ways. In one case, organic matter is completely replaced by a mineral. In this case, the fossil retains the original shape of the object, but loses its internal structure. In another case, the mineral penetrates into the cells and voids of the body, repeating the details of the structure of tissues and organs. For example, silicon actively penetrates and accumulates in the cells of many plants, from which they literally turn to stone during their lifetime.

But what happened in medieval Sweden, in the 17th century. Miners from the city of Falun descended into the mine, where, as usual, they had to extract copper ore in one old well, which no one had looked at for many years. In the dim light of the torches, they saw a man lying on the floor in a garment that shone like pure gold. It turned out to be a local miner, Mete Israelson, who disappeared 40 years ago. All this time, his remains, cell by cell, absorbed pyrite (iron sulfide), until it completely replaced organic matter. Judging by the surviving drawings, the stone sculpture conveyed the smallest details of the figure and clothing of the deceased.

Most often, the forms of animals and plants are occupied by quartz, or rather its various varieties - agate, carnelian, chalcedony, jasper. The rarest case are petrified trees from the Virgin Valley in the US state of Nevada, where plant tissue has been replaced by noble opal. Near Perm, copper was an active element in sulfide sedimentary rocks, so pseudomorphs from azurite, malachite and chalcopyrite appeared there, and in the neighborhood there are fossils from goethite and hematite - ferruginous minerals.

In nature, the opposite happens, when an animal is already inside the stone. So, in June 1851, workers in Blois (France) chipped off part of a silicon rock, and found a living toad inside. Another toad was released from a block of metal ore in 1852 in Derby. In April 1993, Daniel Heald reported that near Adelaide in South Australia a sapphire miner broke a rock and saw a frog jump out of the void. She died soon after, but was placed in the state museum for study. There is no explanation for the fact that living toads, frogs or other small cold-blooded creatures are found in the voids of stones cut in two. In the West, a theory is especially popular, according to which a young animal falls into a void in a stone through a hole, but then becomes too large and cannot get out. Through the hole, air, water and insects enter for food, thanks to which the animal can survive.

Two French geologists-researchers Arnold Reshard and Pierre Escollier studied rock samples taken in different points the globe and found that the stones have a semblance of life processes, only very slow. It turned out that the structure of the stone is able to change, they are old and young. Moreover, they seem to breathe. True, for one "breath" they leave three days up to two weeks. And each "beat of the heart" lasts about a day. Photographing stones with large time intervals, scientists were able to establish that some stones are capable of independent movement. Farmers of Scandinavia and the Baltic states claim that stones are able not only to move, but also to grow. After all, they constantly appear in fields that have been cultivated for more than one century and are regularly cleared.

Finally, mystically inclined citizens say that otherworldly entities live in the "wandering stones". And they even provide evidence in favor of their hypothesis. In England during the Second World War there was next story. In the county of Essex, legends were passed down from generation to generation about an evil spirit that allegedly lives under a granite boulder that has grown into the ground. And then the bulldozer, expanding the road, turned this stone to the side. The events that followed led to the fact that reporters from all over the country gathered in a small village. In the magazines and newspapers of that time, one can find a detailed description of the ensuing mysterious phenomena. Here are just a few of them: in the church belfry, which was empty and locked, bells began to ring by themselves, and heavy poles and agricultural implements flew through the air. Frightened villagers demanded that the road builders immediately return the stone to its rightful place. This was done with the performance of the appropriate ancient magical rituals. Only then did the doomsday stop.

Ufologists put forward their own version: moving stones are either solid meteorites or their fragments. And they received a craving for changing places during their long space journey. Some scientists believe this phenomenon is the result of the influence of the geomagnetic properties of the planet. Moreover, the stones "wander" precisely in the places of the greatest geomagnetic disturbance. However, no one has been able to explain exactly how the geomagnetic field turns into an anti-gravitational one, capable of moving a huge boulder from place to place.

There is a hypothesis that crystal cell such anomalous "self-moving" minerals can accumulate information and operate with it. And besides the protein form of life, there are others - for example, thinking stones. And, perhaps, for a reason, the Blue Stone itself determines its place, and nothing will drive it out of there. The ability of stones to move in a variety of ways horizontal plane and moving up the slope, from pits, soil, lakes, to taking off into trees cannot be a consequence ordinary laws physics applied to inanimate objects. The fact that the stones move up the slope speaks of the non-gravitational nature of their ability to move. The possibility of overcoming gravity with stones is also evidenced by the facts of finding stones in the crowns of trees. It is assumed that their driving force is the so-called anti-gravity force generated by the stone and allowing it to both move along surfaces and fly in levitation mode. The ability of stones to move in directions of interest to them allows us to suggest that they have intelligence. But along with this, another explanation is also possible (which, however, does not exclude the first one): external control of the movement of the stone. It is possible that the very creation of the structure of the organism-stone is carried out by a certain control matrix, of a higher level. One thing is certain: physical phenomena like those described above can be caused either by internal (intelligence) or external control, or by a combination of these factors.

So, there is still no scientific explanation for the phenomenon of wandering stones. Science began to seriously study this phenomenon only in 1948. The first experiments were carried out in American Institute geology. All laboratory studies have confirmed that wandering stones are the most common in terms of chemical composition. The so-called temperature hypothesis was put forward right off the bat: when heated in the sun, the stones expand on the one hand, and narrow on the other, and crawl due to this. This hypothesis was quickly recognized as untenable, because then all the stones on Earth should crawl. Then scientists put forward hypotheses of the influence of soil erosion, underground water flows, geomagnetic fields, and even strong winds but they were not confirmed. By the way, the famous academician Fersman, during his lifetime, put forward a hypothesis that a form of life based on flint is possible, and his followers also believe that moving stones are representatives of a different form of life. They believe that life could well have formed on the basis of silicium, or silicon, which is often the basis of stone blocks.

But you should not think that any pebble you meet is alive. After all, everything that often surrounds us in the form of shapeless blocks, rubble, gravel or jewelry has already died, having passed through human processing and is only the “remains” of once living stones. A man paves the way with them, decorates his everyday life, erects high-rise buildings and monuments to itself. On the cuts of agates, in my deep conviction, the internal structure of the once living stones is clearly visible ...

In nature, there are over 700 types of flint, but only flints of the opal-chalcedonic variety are able to activate water, giving it healing properties. A simple means of replenishing the deficiency of this vital element in the body is flint water (water infused with black flint for a week). Black flint is a mineral formation that includes silicon dioxide (dioxide). More than 60 amino acid residues contained in flint are unique biocatalysts of the body.

According to modern data, the most common elements in the biosphere of our Planet, and therefore the most significant elements for our health, are oxygen (47%), silicon (29%), aluminum (8%), iron (4.7%), calcium (about 3 %), sodium and potassium (2.5% each), magnesium (1.9%). As you can see, silicon is the most important element after oxygen. Basic research at the Institute of Silicon has shown that the lack of silicon in the body is the cause of the violation of elasticity and flexibility. connective tissue tendons, articular cartilage, walls of blood vessels and intestines, valvular apparatus of cardio-vascular system and sphincters gastrointestinal tract. In addition, almost all diseases of the skin, hair and nails also indicate a lack of silicon. With a decrease in the level of silicon in the blood, the elasticity of blood vessels decreases and silicon is replaced by calcium in the vascular wall, which makes the vessels rigid. Cholesterol settles on calcium "spikes", and there are prerequisites for the development of atherosclerosis, angina pectoris and coronary disease hearts. Silicon is involved in the metabolism of more than 70 mineral salts and vitamins, and if it is deficient, the metabolism in the body is disturbed. Therefore, our life without silicon is simply impossible ...

And finally. In China, discovered a mysterious stone, covered with a "cap" of long straight hair, similar to human. The nature of this phenomenon has not yet been established, but it is believed that the strange vegetation is of marine origin. A stone 30 cm long was found on the ocean and resembles a cobblestone. The hair growing on it hangs from the surface, where there is a kind of thin growth. The gray hair, similar in color to the stone itself, reaches a length of 15 cm. According to press reports, only two such finds were known before - both are stored in the Taiwan Museum. The current exhibit belongs to a private individual and is on display in a cafe in Beijing. Experts estimated the cost of the unique stone at 10 million yuan ($1.3 million).

"Alien Tower" V. B. Ivanov

The possibility of silicon life is recognized even by official scientists. Silicon is the second most abundant element on Earth after oxygen. The most commonly encountered silicon compound is its SiO2-silica. In nature, it forms the mineral quartz and its varieties: rock crystal, amethyst, agate, opal, jasper, chalcedony, carnelian. Silicon dioxide is also sand. The second type of natural silicon compounds are silicates. These include granite, clay, mica.

Why silicon can be the basis of life?

Silicon forms branched compounds like hydrocarbons, that is, silicon is a source of diversity. Silicon powder burns in oxygen, that is, silicon is a source of energy. Based on the semiconductor properties of silicon, microcircuits and, accordingly, computers were created - that is, silicon can be the basis of the mind.

Could there have been silicon life on our planet in the past?

She could very well.

Trunks and branches of stone trees were found. Some of them are precious. The finds are numerous all over the world. In some places there are so many trees that it can only be called a forest. Stone trees have preserved the structure of wood.

There are fossil stone bones of animals, including those made of precious stones. The finds preserved the structure of the bone. In the opal jaw of the animal, teeth and tooth sockets are structured.

Many mountains resemble the stumps of huge stone trees.

In the steppes, stone shells, ammonites, lie in large numbers.

In general, there are many examples of fossil silicon creatures. If someone is satisfied with the official explanation of the process of replacing carbon with silicon in fossil finds due to the irrigation of a tree or bone with mineral water with further transformation into a precious stone, do not read further this article.

Suppose for ourselves that silicon life is a fact. And it predated carbon life on our planet. Then next question: how did she look?

Like the carbon life form, the silicon life form must be structured from the simplest single-celled forms to evolutionarily (or divinely, whichever you prefer) complex and sentient forms. Complex life forms are made up of organs and tissues. Everything is like now. Rather naive are the notions of silicon life as a monolithic piece of granite endowed with the spirit of God. It's like a living puddle of oil or a living lump of coal.

The set of organs is universal for any creatures, both carbon and silicon. These are control (nervous system), nutrition, release of toxins, frame (bones, etc.), protection from the external environment (skin), reproduction, etc.

Animal tissues are made up of different cells and look different. Bone, muscle, epidermis, etc.

The fabrics are made up of different substances: fats, proteins, carbohydrates. In tissues, there is a different content of various substances from carbon to metals.

All this visible to the eye the economy functions according to physical and chemical laws. The laws are common to a living organism, a computer, a car.

Let's go further: something happens and silicon life perishes. Carbon life thrives on its ruins none. A logical question: where are the bodies of dead silicon animals, plants, fish, etc.? Stumps and stone trees have already been mentioned. Suitable, but not enough quantity and variety. I would like to see a complex form of life, consisting of various organs and fabrics. For example, like an animal. With the skin, with the muscles, with the liver, with the blood vessels and the heart.

So: the silicon giant died. Time has passed. What will we see?

Let's draw an analogy: a mammoth died. What will we find in many, many years? Usually the frame (bones), less often the skin, less often the muscles. The brain and parenchymal organs are extremely rare.

And now let's look for silicon frameworks in the surrounding world. They are scattered all over the world.

These are antique and colonial buildings!

I propose to pause and calmly analyze the difference between a certain building and a static organism such as a coral or fungus on a silicon basis.

Bricks, beams, blocks, ceilings are the structural units of the frame tissue such as the bones of modern animals or the shell of turtles. They are well preserved. Skin - walls with plaster. Sewerage is an excretory system. Heating pipes are the circulatory system. Fireplace system - food. The bell tower with a bell is the organ of speech or the vestibular apparatus. Metal fittings or wiring - the nervous system.

Under the roof was the brain. Recall the expression "the roof went." The brain has rotted from time to time along with the internal organs that were in indoor areas. And all this dust in the form of clay covers antique and colonial buildings up to the first floor. It is no longer possible to isolate the structural unit (cell) of soft tissues.

In summary: structurally, any building corresponds to the functions of a living being. There is a frame, nutrition, excretion, etc. This will be confirmed by plumbers and chairmen of housing and communal services.

Any building materials and devices can be synthesized by a living organism. iron and stone pipes, cables, roofing iron, glass, all these construction details are many times simpler than the devices of a living organism. Living organisms use any trace elements and their compounds available on the planet. And they synthesize devices of any purpose, complexity and composition. If only it was necessary.

Locks, lamps, electric shockers, aircraft, submarines. That is, pistils, stamens, fireflies, electric rays, birds, fish. It's all nature.

Any man-made device is not an exclusive creation of the engineer's brain, but is a copy of a natural device. And vice versa. Accordingly, the composition of roofing iron, the shape of a stable and spacious silicon structure in the form of a house, is not a monopoly of man. Solutions are universal for nature and for the engineer.

Antique buildings, they are silicon creatures, multiplied and then grew in the same way as modern plants and animals. Cells divided, differentiated into specialized tissues in the form of walls, roofs, ceilings, and reinforcement. And from embryos like dolmens they turned into St. Isaac's cathedrals.

I will not dwell on the physiology, including the methods of reproduction of silicon creatures, due to the complexity of the topic. There was a substance analogous to water in carbon life. For example, sulfuric acid. There were silicon analogs of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. There was an oxidizing agent like oxygen. For example, chlorine. There was a silicon Krebs cycle.

The picture turns out to be interesting, it looks like a mixture of Christian hell and the movie "Alien". All this life seethed at a certain, apparently high temperature. And it turned into monuments of ancient and colonial architecture.

Can you say that ancient buildings correspond to the physiological needs of man? Of course not.

More ancient (according to official history) such as pyramids or Greek temples in general do not correlate with people either in size or in function. Why did the ancient Greeks need them? For religious cult? Funny. No, it can be done if there is already a finished building. But to build these giant colossus with bare hands and in tunics?

Buildings for a technological process unknown to modern science? Also doubtful.

Later buildings, such as Colonial St. Petersburg, can be adapted for housing. But with the sizes of windows and doors, it was also not very good. They say they built for giants.

In Paris, St. Petersburg and other cities, there are no distinct traces of its builders and the construction process from the design stage to delivery to the contractor. All these colonial buildings came out of nowhere. All these colonial buildings are located all over the world, including in places where there was no distinct industry at all.

The technology of working with granite is absolutely incomprehensible. More or less intelligible explanations are: alien superlasers from LAists or granite casting. Both are beyond the capabilities of modern civilization.

The structure of monolithic granite products is heterogeneous. Something like plaster from the same, but denser granite falls off monolithic columns. How the skin peels off. Alexandria pillar through filters looks prefabricated. Or maybe it's something like growth rings in the course of growth?

Antique and colonial buildings are the skeletons of dead silicon life form creatures. People settled in them. We studied the golden proportions of ancient creatures, engineering schemes. Later, the composition of the materials was dismantled. Learned how to make copies. This is how construction was born.

Naturally, not all old buildings are silicon creatures. The boundary is quite clear - there should not be a tree as load-bearing structures, floors. Well, wooden doors, window frames and the floor were brought into the already existing silicon frame quite comfortably.

Houses in colonial cities like St. Petersburg are all different. An absolute variety in terms of the size of the houses themselves, the height of the floors, the shape of the facade. At the same time, there is no gap between the houses on the streets, they stand wall to wall. In the general planning of cities there is a soft natural harmony. All this resembles a colony of living beings. Maybe like corals, or mushrooms. Cathedrals - well, just poured mushrooms.

Statues in ancient buildings

The statues are a late human remake stuffed into prehistoric skeletons. The statues are structureless. It is a monolithic array of material with an external shape copied from humans and nonhumans. And living beings are structural, as noted earlier. Also structural and finds of fossils. That is, in petrified trees, rings are visible on the cut. Found stone jaws with teeth and bones are inside the body. They themselves are a structural element.

Could silicon animals and silicon people be similar to modern ones. Undoubtedly. Finds of animal bones (including jaws) and tree trunks allegedly petrified to the state of precious stones confirm this probability.

I will return to holding a religious cult in ancient and colonial temples. You noticed that according to all the data previously, the effectiveness of all cults was significantly higher. Now, in my opinion, it has dropped to zero, except for self-zombie. Most likely, the matter is as follows. After the death of a silicon being, its ethereal, astral, etc. the shells do not leave the dead physical body immediately. Just like the carbon beings. The energy of these shells was used by the clergy for their rituals, settling inside the corpse. Now, apparently forty days by the standards of silicon life have passed. There is no more magic. I hope everyone goes to heaven.

When did the silicon era end?

Probably according to the calendar. Nonche 7525 year from the creation of the world. Can silicon cores last 7525 years? Why not? We didn't see them 7525 years ago. And accordingly we do not represent the original quality. Nothing bad has really happened in the last 200 years.

How long was the silicon era?

The silicon era is the crust of the earth. The earth's crust is made up of rocks, the main element of which is silicon. The thickness of the crust is 5-30 kilometers. And the silicon creatures accumulated these kilometers with their vital activity. Just as now carbonic beings are working on fertile soil. So far we have gained 3 meters. Feel the difference.

Sunset of the silicon age

When immersed in the soil of the silicon world, that is, the earth's crust, the temperature rises. The bowels of the earth are warming. At a depth of 10 kilometers, it is about 200 degrees. This must have been the climate in the silicon world. Accordingly, the materials had different physical and chemical properties than now. Over time, the crust thickened as a consequence of the accumulation of silicon biomass (soil). The surface moved away from the hot bowels of the earth and its temperature dropped. At the moment, the heat of the bowels of the earth does not reach the surface. The only source of heat is the sun. The global cooling of the surface of the earth's crust has made the conditions of existence for the silicon world unacceptable. The end of the silicon world has come. All died from the cold.

Where did the rest of the creatures go?

On the basis of silicon, nature synthesizes a bunch of precious and semi-precious stones. Flint life did just that. Highly organized silicon beings were made up of highly organized silicon in the form of gems. And common sand, granite and clay are building material, the basis of life.

After the end of the silicon world, precious and semi-precious raw materials (that is, the corpses of highly organized silicon creatures) were savagely looted. Remained unnecessary sand, granite and clay. Traces of robbery are everywhere. See the topic “Earth is a big quarry”.

Silicon world and Eastern philosophy

In Eastern religions, the process of the descent of spirit into matter is described. The embodied spirit passes through the world of stones, plants, animals, people through reincarnation and finally becomes a god. If you're lucky. There is something harmonious and fair in this. But I suspect that the world of stones is not modern cobblestones, but the world of silicon creatures. The planet was a large garden of living rocks. And the task of the silicon world was to create the foundation of life - earth's crust with a wealth of minerals.

The next world to emerge up the ladder of progress is the carbon world. And this is the world of plants. And it doesn't matter that according to the local classification modern science Plants are the biological kingdom of multicellular organisms whose cells contain chlorophyll. It does not matter that Vasya or John do not have the process of photosynthesis. Carbon life is the second step from the bottom on the path of development. In a global philosophical sense, we are all just plants. And the planet is a big plantation. The task of a plantation is to create biomass, to be food for animals and people. The fact that elusive creatures in every sense actively feed on us is an unpleasant, but quite realistic conspiracy idea.

Why are beings elusive, invisible? Because we are static, slow on a universal scale. We are plants. We do not have time to see the animals that eat us, coming from the next worlds in terms of development.

The so-called man is the main thing useful plant on the planet. It should be cultivated. But, judging by the state of affairs in the world, our planet-plantation was left without human owners, and is actively plundered by wild animals from higher worlds. Barbarians are everywhere, even among the gods.

The bark is gutted for many kilometers. The former level of the earth's crust is the peak of the Himalayas. Normal people have been almost completely replaced with genetically modified ones, they have multiplied up to seven billion and they are downloading ethereal energy (gawah). Under the guise of local and global wars there is a literal consumption of people.

In general, may the savior-agronomist come!

What was the silicon world like? Probably less harmonious than ours. After all, we are the next step in development. Current state affairs on the planet is not indicative. The planet is infected and seriously ill.

Can we get over the illness? It will be very difficult. I repeat, the entire basis of life, the wealth of the subsoil, the heritage of silicon creatures have been plundered to a depth of several kilometers. All gems and metals are selected. We've been left without a past. We are sitting on a pile of rubble in the middle of a flooded quarry.

Precious stones and metals have magical properties. All the magic was seized with the buckets of huge bucket-wheel excavators. Witchcraft and magic from everyday practice have become a fairy tale. BUT human society began to resemble a colony of hornets.

And eternal battle! Rest only in our dreams.

"Alien Tower" V. B. Ivanov

The possibility of silicon life is recognized even by official scientists. Silicon is the second most abundant element on Earth after oxygen. The most commonly encountered silicon compound is its SiO2-silica. In nature, it forms the mineral quartz and its varieties: rock crystal, amethyst, agate, opal, jasper, chalcedony, carnelian. Silicon dioxide is also sand. The second type of natural silicon compounds are silicates. These include granite, clay, mica.

Why silicon can be the basis of life?

Silicon forms branched compounds like hydrocarbons, that is, silicon is a source of diversity. Silicon powder burns in oxygen, that is, silicon is a source of energy. Based on the semiconductor properties of silicon, microcircuits and, accordingly, computers were created - that is, silicon can be the basis of the mind.

Could there have been silicon life on our planet in the past?

She could very well.

Trunks and branches of stone trees were found. Some of them are precious. The finds are numerous all over the world. In some places there are so many trees that it can only be called a forest. Stone trees have preserved the structure of wood.

There are fossil stone bones of animals, including those made of precious stones. The finds preserved the structure of the bone. In the opal jaw of the animal, teeth and tooth sockets are structured.

Many mountains resemble the stumps of huge stone trees.

In the steppes, stone shells, ammonites, lie in large numbers.

In general, there are many examples of fossil silicon creatures. If someone is satisfied with the official explanation of the process of replacing carbon with silicon in fossil finds due to the irrigation of a tree or bone with mineral water with further transformation into a precious stone, do not read further this article.

Suppose for ourselves that silicon life is a fact. And it predated carbon life on our planet. Then the next question is: what did she look like?

Like the carbon life form, the silicon life form must be structured from the simplest single-celled forms to evolutionarily (or divinely, whichever you prefer) complex and sentient forms. Complex life forms are made up of organs and tissues. Everything is like now. Rather naive are the notions of silicon life as a monolithic piece of granite endowed with the spirit of God. It's like a living puddle of oil or a living lump of coal.

The set of organs is universal for any creatures, both carbon and silicon. These are control (nervous system), nutrition, release of toxins, frame (bones, etc.), protection from the external environment (skin), reproduction, etc.

Animal tissues are made up of different cells and look different. Bone, muscle, epidermis, etc.

Tissues are made up of different substances: fats, proteins, carbohydrates. In tissues, there is a different content of various substances from carbon to metals.

All this economy visible to the eye functions according to physical and chemical laws. The laws are common to a living organism, a computer, a car.

Let's go further: something happens and silicon life perishes. Carbon life thrives on its ruins none. A logical question: where are the bodies of dead silicon animals, plants, fish, etc.? Stumps and stone trees have already been mentioned. Suitable, but not enough quantity and variety. I would like to see a complex form of life, consisting of different organs and tissues. For example, like an animal. With the skin, with the muscles, with the liver, with the blood vessels and the heart.

So: the silicon giant died. Time has passed. What will we see?

Let's draw an analogy: a mammoth died. What will we find in many, many years? Usually the frame (bones), less often the skin, less often the muscles. The brain and parenchymal organs are extremely rare.

And now let's look for silicon frameworks in the surrounding world. They are scattered all over the world.

These are antique and colonial buildings!

I propose to pause and calmly analyze the difference between a certain building and a static organism such as a coral or fungus on a silicon basis.

Bricks, beams, blocks, ceilings are the structural units of the frame tissue such as the bones of modern animals or the shell of turtles. They are well preserved. Skin - walls with plaster. Sewerage is an excretory system. Heating pipes are the circulatory system. Fireplace system - food. The bell tower with a bell is the organ of speech or the vestibular apparatus. Metal fittings or wiring - the nervous system.

Under the roof was the brain. Recall the expression "the roof went." The brain rotted from time to time along with the internal organs that were in the interior. And all this dust in the form of clay covers antique and colonial buildings up to the first floor. It is no longer possible to isolate the structural unit (cell) of soft tissues.

In summary: structurally, any building corresponds to the functions of a living being. There is a frame, nutrition, excretion, etc. This will be confirmed by plumbers and chairmen of housing and communal services.

Any building materials and devices can be synthesized by a living organism. Iron and stone pipes, cables, roofing iron, glass, all these construction details are many times simpler than the devices of a living organism. Living organisms use any trace elements and their compounds available on the planet. And they synthesize devices of any purpose, complexity and composition. If only it was necessary.

Locks, lamps, electric shockers, aircraft, submarines. That is, pistils, stamens, fireflies, electric rays, birds, fish. It's all nature.

Any man-made device is not an exclusive creation of the engineer's brain, but is a copy of a natural device. And vice versa. Accordingly, the composition of roofing iron, the shape of a stable and spacious silicon structure in the form of a house, is not a monopoly of man. Solutions are universal for nature and for the engineer.

Antique buildings, they are silicon creatures, multiplied and then grew in the same way as modern plants and animals. Cells divided, differentiated into specialized tissues in the form of walls, roofs, ceilings, and reinforcement. And from embryos like dolmens they turned into St. Isaac's cathedrals.

I will not dwell on the physiology, including the methods of reproduction of silicon creatures, due to the complexity of the topic. There was a substance analogous to water in carbon life. For example, sulfuric acid. There were silicon analogs of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. There was an oxidizing agent like oxygen. For example, chlorine. There was a silicon Krebs cycle.

The picture turns out to be interesting, it looks like a mixture of Christian hell and the movie "Alien". All this life seethed at a certain, apparently high temperature. And it turned into monuments of ancient and colonial architecture.

Can you say that ancient buildings correspond to the physiological needs of man? Of course not.

More ancient (according to official history) such as pyramids or Greek temples generally do not correlate with people either in size or in function. Why did the ancient Greeks need them? For religious worship? Funny. No, it can be done if there is already a finished building. But to build these giant colossus with bare hands and in tunics?

Buildings for a technological process unknown to modern science? Also doubtful.

Later buildings, such as Colonial St. Petersburg, can be adapted for housing. But with the sizes of windows and doors, it was also not very good. They say they built for giants.

In Paris, St. Petersburg and other cities, there are no distinct traces of its builders and the construction process from the design stage to delivery to the contractor. All these colonial buildings came out of nowhere. All these colonial buildings are located all over the world, including in places where there was no distinct industry at all.

The technology of working with granite is absolutely incomprehensible. More or less intelligible explanations are: alien superlasers from LAists or granite casting. Both are beyond the capabilities of modern civilization.

The structure of monolithic granite products is heterogeneous. Something like plaster from the same, but denser granite falls off monolithic columns. How the skin peels off. The Pillar of Alexandria looks like a composite through filters. Or maybe it's something like growth rings in the course of growth?

Antique and colonial buildings are the skeletons of dead silicon life form creatures. People settled in them. We studied the golden proportions of ancient creatures, engineering schemes. Later, the composition of the materials was dismantled. Learned how to make copies. This is how construction was born.

Naturally, not all old buildings are silicon creatures. The boundary is quite clear - there should not be a tree as load-bearing structures, floors. Well, wooden doors, window frames and the floor were brought into the already existing silicon frame quite comfortably.

Houses in colonial cities like St. Petersburg are all different. An absolute variety in terms of the size of the houses themselves, the height of the floors, the shape of the facade. At the same time, there is no gap between the houses on the streets, they stand wall to wall. In the general planning of cities there is a soft natural harmony. All this resembles a colony of living beings. Maybe like corals, or mushrooms. Cathedrals - well, just poured mushrooms.

Statues in ancient buildings

The statues are a late human remake stuffed into prehistoric skeletons. The statues are structureless. It is a monolithic array of material with an external shape copied from humans and nonhumans. And living beings are structural, as noted earlier. Also structural and finds of fossils. That is, in petrified trees, rings are visible on the cut. Found stone jaws with teeth and bones are inside the body. They themselves are a structural element.

Could silicon animals and silicon people be similar to modern ones. Undoubtedly. Finds of animal bones (including jaws) and tree trunks allegedly petrified to the state of precious stones confirm this probability.

I will return to holding a religious cult in ancient and colonial temples. You noticed that according to all the data previously, the effectiveness of all cults was significantly higher. Now, in my opinion, it has dropped to zero, except for self-zombie. Most likely, the matter is as follows. After the death of a silicon being, its ethereal, astral, etc. the shells do not leave the dead physical body immediately. Just like the carbon beings. The energy of these shells was used by the clergy for their rituals, settling inside the corpse. Now, apparently forty days by the standards of silicon life have passed. There is no more magic. I hope everyone goes to heaven.

When did the silicon era end?

Probably according to the calendar. Nonche 7525 year from the creation of the world. Can silicon cores last 7525 years? Why not? We didn't see them 7525 years ago. And accordingly we do not represent the original quality. Nothing bad has really happened in the last 200 years.

How long was the silicon era?

The silicon era is the crust of the earth. The earth's crust is made up of rocks, the main element of which is silicon. The thickness of the crust is 5-30 kilometers. And the silicon creatures accumulated these kilometers with their vital activity. Just as now carbonic beings are working on fertile soil. So far we have gained 3 meters. Feel the difference.

Sunset of the silicon age

When immersed in the soil of the silicon world, that is, the earth's crust, the temperature rises. The bowels of the earth are warming. At a depth of 10 kilometers, it is about 200 degrees. This must have been the climate in the silicon world. Accordingly, the materials had different physical and chemical properties than now. Over time, the crust thickened as a consequence of the accumulation of silicon biomass (soil). The surface moved away from the hot bowels of the earth and its temperature dropped. At the moment, the heat of the bowels of the earth does not reach the surface. The only source of heat is the sun. The global cooling of the surface of the earth's crust has made the conditions of existence for the silicon world unacceptable. The end of the silicon world has come. All died from the cold.

Where did the rest of the creatures go?

On the basis of silicon, nature synthesizes a bunch of precious and semi-precious stones. Flint life did just that. Highly organized silicon beings were made up of highly organized silicon in the form of gems. And common sand, granite and clay are building material, the basis of life.

After the end of the silicon world, precious and semi-precious raw materials (that is, the corpses of highly organized silicon creatures) were savagely looted. Remained unnecessary sand, granite and clay. Traces of robbery are everywhere. See the topic “Earth is a big quarry”.

Silicon world and Eastern philosophy

In Eastern religions, the process of the descent of spirit into matter is described. The embodied spirit passes through the world of stones, plants, animals, people through reincarnation and finally becomes a god. If you're lucky. There is something harmonious and fair in this. But I suspect that the world of stones is not modern cobblestones, but the world of silicon creatures. The planet was a large garden of living rocks. And the task of the silicon world was to create the foundation of life - the earth's crust with a mass of minerals.

The next world to emerge up the ladder of progress is the carbon world. And this is the world of plants. And it does not matter that according to the local classification of modern science, plants are the biological kingdom of multicellular organisms whose cells contain chlorophyll. It does not matter that Vasya or John do not have the process of photosynthesis. Carbon life is the second step from the bottom on the path of development. In a global philosophical sense, we are all just plants. And the planet is a big plantation. The task of a plantation is to create biomass, to be food for animals and people. The fact that elusive creatures in every sense actively feed on us is an unpleasant, but quite realistic conspiracy idea.

Why are beings elusive, invisible? Because we are static, slow on a universal scale. We are plants. We do not have time to see the animals that eat us, coming from the next worlds in terms of development.

The so-called man is the main useful plant on the planet. It should be cultivated. But, judging by the state of affairs in the world, our planet-plantation was left without human owners, and is actively plundered by wild animals from higher worlds. Barbarians are everywhere, even among the gods.

The bark is gutted for many kilometers. The former level of the earth's crust is the peak of the Himalayas. Normal people have been almost completely replaced with genetically modified ones, they have multiplied up to seven billion and they are downloading ethereal energy (gawah). Under the guise of local and global wars, there is a literal consumption of people.

In general, may the savior-agronomist come!

What was the silicon world like? Probably less harmonious than ours. After all, we are the next step in development. The current state of affairs on the planet is not indicative. The planet is infected and seriously ill.

Can we get over the illness? It will be very difficult. I repeat, the entire basis of life, the wealth of the subsoil, the heritage of silicon creatures have been plundered to a depth of several kilometers. All gems and metals are selected. We've been left without a past. We are sitting on a pile of rubble in the middle of a flooded quarry.

Precious stones and metals have magical properties. All the magic was seized with the buckets of huge bucket-wheel excavators. Witchcraft and magic from everyday practice have become a fairy tale. And human society began to resemble a colony of hornets.

And eternal battle! Rest only in our dreams.

QUARTZ-SILICON LIFE FORM (edited on 11/27/2016)

According to the famous geochemist, academician A.G. Fersman (1883-1945), life is possible not in a biological (carbohydrate) form, but, for example, in quartz-silicon (flint, SiO2 is a mineral containing one of the variations of quartz - chalcedony and opal).

In November 2016, the media spread the message that biotechnologists from the California Institute of Technology for the first time brought out a bacterium capable of synthesizing compounds in which silicon is present. This is a step towards creating creatures whose metabolism is based on inorganic molecules. In the course of the study, chemists searched protein sequence databases to find enzymes that could potentially bind silicon to carbon. For the implementation of this reaction, hemoproteins were suitable - proteins containing complex compounds porphyrins and iron (hemes). The scientists chose the cytochrome protein, which is synthesized by Rhodothermus Marinus bacteria living in the underwater hot springs of Iceland. They isolated the gene encoding this enzyme, propagated it, and subjected it to random mutations. The resulting DNA sequences were introduced into E. coli Escherichia coli. It has been established that some of the mutations in the active site of the enzyme led to the fact that the bacteria began to produce a protein capable of synthesizing organosilicon compounds. At the same time, with its efficiency, which is determined by the reaction rate and the amount of the product, the enzyme surpasses artificial catalysts. “…Researchers are going to continue research to find out why, despite the fact that silicon compounds are among the most common substances on Earth, biological evolution has created precisely carbon life. In terrestrial nature, there are no organisms that can use silicon in their metabolism. It is possible that in the future scientists will be able to create living beings whose life activity is based on this element” [A prototype of a silicon life form was created // https://news.rambler.ru/science/35387220].

The metabolism of such life is so extended in time that people do not even consider the very possibility of the presence of life where it is not visible. human eye. In the books of the English writer Terry Pratchett about flat world the original race of trolls is presented - silicon-organic creatures, whose thinking depends on the ambient temperature. Their stupidity is explained bad job organosilicon brain at normal temperature, with strong cooling, trolls show super-high intelligence.

“…Representatives of the silicic-calcium world transform into plants and animal skeletons, including corals. Stones, perhaps, do not live on their own, but are an integral part of the "organism" of our Planet and perform certain functions assigned to them ... Two French geologists-researchers Arnold Reshard and Pierre Escolier studied rock samples taken in different parts of the globe for a long time and carefully and found that the stones have a semblance of life processes, only very slow. It turned out that the structure of the stone is able to change, they are old and young. Moreover, they seem to breathe. True, for one "breath" they take from three days to two weeks. And each "beat of the heart" lasts about a day. Photographing stones with large time intervals, scientists managed to establish that some stones are capable of independent movement” [Earth. Chronicles of life: Living stones among us // http://earth-chronicles.ru/news/2012-10-04-31916].

Actually, the legends about unauthorized “wandering” (“crawling (especially up the slope)”, “dancing”, “jumping”, “growing”, etc.) stones in many parts of the world are “innumerable”!
For example, Racetrack Playa is located in Death Valley, California. Its name comes from two seemingly incongruous words: the English racetrack - “race track” and the Spanish playa - “shore”, (in this case- “a lowland that fills with water after rains, thus turning into a lake, when the water begins to gradually drain, the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe lake decreases, and a shore forms around it, and after a while, when the moisture dries up, one shore, in fact, remains” ). The clay bottom of Racetrack Playa is dry almost all the time, and nothing grows on it. It is covered with an almost uniform pattern of cracks forming irregular hexagonal cells. Stones are lying at the bottom - heavy blocks weighing up to thirty kilograms, and at times they move on their own, leaving behind shallow (no more than a couple of centimeters), but very long (up to several tens of meters) furrows on the ground. The most amazing thing is that no one, with the current development of technology, has so far been able to capture on camera exactly how they “crawl”.

In Romania, the phenomenon of "trovants" - "growing" or "living stones" is known. Most large cluster growing stones were recorded in the Romanian county (region) of Valcea. On its territory there are trovants of various shapes, sizes and colors. In connection with the great interest of tourists, in 2006, the Valčina authorities in the village of Costesti created the only Trovant museum in the whole country under open sky. Its area is 1.1 hectares. The most unusual-looking growing stones from all over the area are collected on the territory of the museum. For a small fee, those who wish can view the exposition and purchase small samples as souvenirs. Many owners of souvenir stones claim that trovant memorabilia, when wet, begin to grow, and sometimes they move around the house without permission, which makes a rather creepy impression. They grow especially rapidly after rain: the stones increase in size due to the high content of various mineral salts under their shell, and when the surface gets wet, these chemical compounds begin to expand and press on the sand, causing the stone to “grow”. Over time, growth slows down and eventually stops altogether. There are cases when trovants grew from small "buttons" of a few grams to megaliths weighing tons. On the saw cut, annual rings can be observed, like in trees. These stones can not only grow, but also multiply by "budding". It happens like this: after the surface of the stone gets wet, a slight bulge appears on it. Over time, it grows, but when the weight of the new stone becomes large enough, it breaks off from the mother. The structure of the new trovants is the same as that of other, older stones. There is also a core inside, which is the main mystery for scientists. If the growth of the stone can somehow be explained from a scientific point of view, then the process of dividing the stone core defies any logic. In general, the process of reproduction of trovants resembles budding, which is why some experts seriously thought about the question of whether they are a hitherto unknown inorganic life form.

There is something similar in Russia, on the territory of the Kolpnyansky district of the Oryol region in the village of Andreevka and its environs, rounded stone blocks appear from underground, as if by magic, on the surface. They can be seen in fields, gardens, near houses and in household plots.

Oryol growing stones look like sticky sand, but this is a deceptive fragility. In fact, these stones are very durable, and in order to break off even a small fragment from them, great efforts must be made. The sizes of the stones vary greatly. There are both small growing stones and huge blocks several meters long, resembling building slabs, in the vicinity of Andreevka. Growing stones are very popular with local residents. They are endowed with mystical properties, it is believed that boulders growing from underground are rich in the life-giving power of mother earth. Some even transported a few stones and decorated the road to the local holy springs with them. Others build decorative rockeries from stones in their backyards and use them as finishing materials for houses.

In Xilian Village, Pingquan County, Hebei Province, there is a place that the locals call "egg hill." There is a pile of stone eggs the same shape, there is a stone eggshell, and a stone yolk, everything is like a real one. It is reported that this low slope is located near locality. There is practically no vegetation cover on the slope of the mountain, it is littered with oval-shaped broken stone eggs and stone eggshells. Those stone eggs different sizes, there are more than 20 cm in diameter, there are less than 10 cm. Locals say that they resemble dinosaur eggs. This is not the first discovery of stone eggs in China, in 2006 in the southwestern province of Guizhou, an “egg-bearing” rock was discovered, which “lays” stone eggs every 30 years. In the vicinity of Gulu Village, Sandu County, Guizhou Province, in the Denggan Mountains, which are completely overgrown with trees and grasses, there is a bare spot in the middle of the mountainside. There is a rock that “lays” stone eggs every three decades, so the locals used to call it “egg rock”. This rock is 20 meters long, 6 meters high, and its surface is quite flat. Some stone eggs protrude only slightly on the surface of the rock, others are halfway, and there are almost detached from the rock. The stone eggs of the egg-bearing rock, on average, are 30 cm in diameter, there are large and small ones, the vast majority of them are round, oval, some are yellowish in color. Gulu village is reported to have about 20 families, all have stone eggs, 68 eggs in total. It is believed that if there is a stone egg in the house, then people will prosper and live comfortably, so they go there to get this treasure. Who gave these mountains a mysterious power, what thousand-year-old secrets are hidden in high rocks? Egg-laying rocks are a mysterious phenomenon that goes beyond human logic.

Also known are the so-called. giant boulders of Moeraki (Costa Rica), which are stone and iron balls of spherical shape. Their diameter varies from a few centimeters to 3 meters. They are located both singly and in groups of up to 50 pieces. The age of most boulders is, according to some estimates, at least 60 million years.

The unusualness of trovants and similar stones sometimes leads to the emergence of very bold and, at first glance, implausible opinions and hypotheses, to recognize the reliability of which official science not in a hurry. A number of researchers, as already mentioned, believe that trovants are representatives of an inorganic life form. The principle of their existence and structure have nothing to do with the same characteristics of already studied species of flora and fauna. At the same time, growing stones can turn out to be both the indigenous inhabitants of our planet, who have quietly existed side by side with humans for thousands of years, and representatives of unearthly life forms that have fallen to earth with meteorites or brought by aliens.

Mystically inclined people (and many folklore data - bylichki, tales, proverbs) say that otherworldly entities live in "wandering" or "magic" stones.
“... The famous Russian traveler S. Krasheninnikov tells how a certain Koryak got himself a fetish wife. He found a stone on the river, and when he took it in his hands, "then the stone blew on him, as if a man." He got scared and threw a stone. After that, he fell ill and, deciding that the illness was connected with his act, began to look for a stone. Soon he found it, but in a different place. He took a stone to his house, made him a dress and considered him his wife ”[Men A. Magic, occultism, Christianity //
The veneration of powerful unearthly beings (“gods”) as ordinary stones, rocks and idols and altars hewn from them is a common place in religious studies. In general, we can agree with the following statement: “... we almost certainly meet not with the primitive deification of a stone block, not with litholatry, but with a deeply thought out, more precisely, deeply experienced image of divine ugliness. The stone, the hardest and most indestructible of all terrestrial materials, told the ancient man about one more, extremely important property God - about His eternity and inviolability. A mortal, easily destroyed man, wished to unite himself with the Being, over which death and decay have no power. And, apparently, this is why the stone became for the people of the Neolithic an “icon” of the incomprehensible God, an “icon” that later passed to Egypt (“the navel” of Amon in the Oasis of Siva), to Hellas (Aphrodite’s stone in Paphos) and even to the famous Meccan Kaaba Muslims." In addition, uncut stones, presumably symbolizing a deity, are found in the home sanctuaries of pre-ceramic Jericho…” [Pikalov D.V. Myth and ritual of the Neolithic: a monograph. - Stavropol: Publishing house of NCFU, 2015. - P. 88].

There is a hypothesis that the crystal lattice of minerals can accumulate information and operate with it, i.e. they are "thinking stones". The goal of the alchemists was to search for the "Philosopher's Stone". In the Masonic tradition, the “rough stone” symbolizes the profane state of a person; members of the Masonic lodges call themselves “freemasons”, likening their declared goal - the correction of human nature - to stone processing. Astrologers established correspondences between stones and signs of the Zodiac, stones and planets ...

There is even a theory that all biological life, including humanity, are just incubators, the essence of which is the birth of “stones” (like mollusks give birth to pearls).
It is known that after cremation, a diamond can be made from the ashes - this service is popular in the United States. For example, from 500 g of dust under pressure and at high temperature, a blue diamond weighing a carat and 5 mm in diameter grows in two months. It can be used as decoration.

The same thing happens with the organic remains of ancient plants. The tree trunk turns into stone, preserving the internal structure of the once living tree.. Cones of araucaria (giant coniferous trees that grew during the time of dinosaurs) were found in Argentina. Agate so carefully repeated all the details of the structure of the cones, as if they had just fallen from a tree.

“... Penetration of the stone into the body occurs in at least two ways. In one case, organic matter is completely replaced by a mineral. In this case, the fossil retains the original shape of the object, but loses its internal structure. In another case, the mineral penetrates into the cells and voids of the body, repeating the details of the structure of tissues and organs. Silicon actively penetrates and accumulates in the cells of many plants, from which they literally turn to stone during their lifetime. Most often, the forms of animals and plants are occupied by quartz, or rather its various varieties - agate, carnelian, chalcedony, jasper. The rarest case is petrified trees from the Virgin Valley in the US state of Nevada, where plant tissues are replaced by noble opal. Copper was an active element in sulfide sedimentary rocks near Perm, so pseudomorphs from azurite, malachite and chalcopyrite appeared there, and in the neighborhood there are fossils from goethite and hematite - ferruginous minerals" [Earth. Chronicles of life: Living stones among us // http://earth-chronicles.ru/news/2012-10-04-31916].
Researchers from University of California in San Diego was reported at one of the meetings of the American chemical society. that they were the first to succeed in forcing bacteria to evolve in such a way that their enzymes began to effectively incorporate silicon into simple hydrocarbons, the fundamental principle of life. As you know, silicon is widespread on Earth and makes up 28% of the planet's crust (for comparison, carbon in it is only 0.03%), this element is almost completely absent in the chemistry of life. To help living organisms absorb silicon, chemist Frances Arnold of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and her colleagues isolated the thermophilic bacteria that thrive in hot springs. Like many other organisms, such bacteria contain cytochrome enzymes whose role is to transport electrons between proteins. In some cases, however, the enzymes of thermophilic bacteria expand their functions and become responsible for other reactions. After testing on bacteria, the scientists found that, in rare cases, cytochromes could also be responsible for adding silicon to simple hydrocarbon chains. In nature, as Arnold noted, the ability of silicon to add cytochrome is so weak that it can all be a by-product of the enzyme's function. To enhance the effect, the team of scientists surrounded the bacteria with silicon and carbon compounds. The scientists then selected the organisms that produced the largest amount of hydrocarbons containing silicon. Only after three stages As a result of artificial selection, enzymes “evolved” and bacteria began to produce silicon-containing hydrocarbons in large quantities (2000 times more than their natural counterparts). "The power of evolution really manifests itself with the emergence of new functions, and then adaptation occurs with the help of directed evolution," sums up F. Arnold. At present, silicon-hydrocarbon compounds, called organosilanes, cannot bring any benefit to the industry. They are short, unlike those long silicones that chemical companies use to make adhesives, caulks, and sealants. In the future, it is planned that organisms capable of incorporating silicon into their cells will be the first step towards the creation of "silicon" creatures - similar to Horta from the Star Trek series.

Back in the 18th century Professor Girolamo Segato of Florence (Italy) invented the process of mineralization of human remains, but paranoia and fear of persecution by ignorant contemporaries destroyed his research, leaving only a small number of grim relics as proof of the existence of his amazing technology. Located in the anatomical museum of the University of Florence, Segato's works are presented in the form of such separate parts bodies, like the severed head of a woman and a separate female breast, turned into an eternal stone. There is also the "Segato Table", which is a large wooden oval inlaid with tiles that are actually fossilized pieces of bones, muscles, and intestines. Born in 1792, J. Segato showed an early interest in science in general and chemistry in particular, which inspired and determined his entire life. His specialization in the process of petrification began after he traveled to Egypt at the age of 26 and was fascinated by the mummies of this ancient country. Upon returning to Europe, J. Segato began to develop new methods of mummification. After testing the developed method on animal corpses, the scientist-inventor soon created his own unique method of preserving human tissues by a mysterious process of mineralization at that time, turning the remains into a kind of marble. Reaction to his work has been mixed. Although some marveled at the special transformation of corpses by the “Segato method”, others considered his work to be connected with unnatural Egyptian mysticism. After someone broke into his lab and turned out to be rummaging through his papers, Segato became wary of having his work stolen, and eventually destroyed all of his research and notes. When Segato died in 1836, he took the secret of his process with him to his grave. He was buried in the cemetery of Florence with the epitaph: "Here lies Girolamo Segato - the one who will be incorruptible if the secret of his art did not die with him." Modern researchers have developed alternative methods for the mineralization of human remains, but even after several laboratory research Segato samples by various methods, no one is able to explain his process; “... Now we live in a rune that can be called mineral. And our task in it is to permeate the entire mineral world with our own spirit. Try to understand it. You are building a house. You take stones from any quarry. You process them in such a way that they are invested in the building, etc. What do you associate with the raw material that you take from the mineral kingdom? You connect the raw material with the human spirit. When you build a car, you put your spirit into the car. A separate machine, collapsing, turns into dust. There is no trace left of her. However, what she did does not disappear without a trace, but penetrates down to the atoms. Each atom bears the trace of your spirit and will continue to bear this trace. It is not indifferent whether a certain atom was in any machine or not. By the fact that the atom has been in the machine, the atom has changed. And this change that you have made to the atom in this way is never lost to it. Further, by changing the atom, by linking your spirit with the mineral world, you have imprinted an enduring stamp on the universal consciousness... That which is the mineral kingdom today, you will draw it into yourself, and it will become your inner one. With what surrounds you in nature, you will appear as with your inner ... This is what the Masons knew. The Mason knew that when he built together with others for the spiritualization of the mineral - and "build" means nothing more than to spiritualize the mineral world - then one day it will become the content of his soul ... "[Steiner R. Thought on evolution and involution underlying secret societies: Berlin, December 23, 1904 // http://philologist.livejournal.com/6536814.html]; “... Our humanity has the task of transforming the entire mineral world into a work of art. Electricity already points us to the occult depths of matter. When man builds the mineral world anew, proceeding from his inner being, then the end of our Earth will come; then the Earth will come to the end of physical development. A special plan, according to which the mineral world is being transformed, lives in the Lodge of the Masters. Today this plan has already been completed, so if you delve into it, you can see what wonderful buildings, wonderful machines, etc. will arise from this mineral world. When the Earth reaches the end of the physical globe, all of it will have an internal structure, an internal construction that man himself gave her, so that she will become a work of art according to the plan of the masters of the White Lodge ... When the Earth has already passed into the state of arup, then in it, in a completely condensed form, there is an imprint of the entire physical development, from what was built according to the plan of the masters, as if the smallest miniature edition of what the mineral Earth once was ... At one end of the world there is an atom. He is a reflection of the spirit of the masters of the plan that has come out of the depths, which is the Logos. When we seek the transformation of humanity itself in the course of a great world period, we are reintroduced into the world. Just as man descended, plunged down to the physical plane, so it is with the whole world. That which moves the human Self forward is around the person in the world. And then we come to the lower planes, which, however, contain more lofty plans… The Spirit of the Earth now lives with the masters, and this Spirit of the Earth will become the physical garment of the next planet. The smallest thing we do will have an impact in the smallest atom of the next planet. It is only by having this feeling that we get a connection with the Lodge of the Masters. This should be the focus of the Theosophical Society, for we know what those who know know. When Goethe speaks of the Spirit of the Earth, he speaks the truth. The Spirit of the Earth weaves the garment of the next planet. “In the currents of life – in the storm of deeds” the Spirit (of the Earth) weaves the dress of the next planetary deity… So it was on the Moon: there was a plan of earthly development infinitely multiplied and reduced. And do you know what this reduced plan is, which was then developed in the spiritual? These are the current atoms that underlie the Earth. And the atoms that will form the basis of Jupiter will again be a reduced plan, which is now being developed in the leading White Lodge. Only those who are familiar with this plan can know what an atom is ... So it was on the Moon: there was a plan of earthly development infinitely multiplied and reduced ... These are the current atoms that underlie the Earth. And the atoms that will become the basis of Jupiter will again be a reduced plan, which is now being developed in the leading White Lodge (Earth) ... If you want to gradually know the atom underlying the Earth, then when you know this atom, those beings will come forward to meet you come from the great magicians of the world. Now we can talk about these things, of course, only in hints, but we can at least give at least something that will allow us to get an idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwhat we are dealing with here ”[Steiner R. Logos and atoms in light of the occult: Berlin, October 21, 1905 // http://skurlatov.livejournal.com/3069753.html]. This is an inapplicable law of the development of mankind in the Cosmos: “... cosmologically our earthly development was preceded by the lunar development. Even more distant ancestor our Earth was the Sun, and even more distant - Saturn. Man has gone through these three phases of development: Saturn, Sun, Moon. Our Earth has so far gone through three cycles, of which in the first round it repeated the development of Saturn, in the second - the development of the Sun and in the third - the Moon ... So, our Earth once again passed through the early material states, before it reached the modern physical density ... The Earth from extremely thin, but already physical, matter condensed to more and more dense ... Then the Earth surrounded itself from the outside with an ethereal body and crystallized, organized earthly matter ”[Steiner R. About the lost Temple, which must be restored. Fourth lecture // http://philologist.livejournal.com/6553970.html].

And not only R. Steiner, but “… thanks to Freud, we know that a force operates in us that makes us petrify” [Groys B. Under the gaze of theory // https://theoryandpractice.ru/posts/7146-groys].

And even serious science proposes to see the meaning of the emergence of human civilization only in the participation of the cycle in nature: “... As long as a person was a hunter and gatherer, he was simply a member of natural biocenoses. But civilization is completely different, - says V.V. Malakhov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Moscow State University. – A person extracts from the earth what has left the biological cycle, such as oil, gas and coal, and returns carbon to it in the most accessible form for plants in the form of CO2. Man extracts metals from the earth, saturates them with industrial effluents and releases all this into the oceans, making it available to living organisms. This is the biospheric function of mankind - to return to biological cycle carbon released from it and others nutrients. And when this task is completed, I think that civilization will have a quiet natural end as a result of the exhaustion of available resources. No, we are not expected nuclear war, but slow natural extinction due to the exhaustion of accumulated energy and material resources. But the biosphere will flourish at a new level. Of course, the activity of civilization, the saturation of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, the possible greenhouse effect, the relative enrichment of the ocean with heavy metals will lead to the death of thousands of species, possibly hundreds of thousands of species. This will be one of the biospheric crises (there have been many of them over 4 billion years of the history of life), but how life will flourish at a new stage, when all this carbon will be in the bodies of plants and animals, when new enzyme systems with unusual metals will appear. It will be life without human civilization… Of course, the dying of civilization does not mean the disappearance of man. Long after the extinction of civilization, communities of hunters, primitive farmers and pastoralists, and gatherers will live on Earth. The history of mankind goes back hundreds of thousands of years before civilization, and will probably last hundreds of thousands of years after civilization. But this will already be the existence of one of the biological species in the composition of natural biocenoses ”[Malakhov V.V. Biotic cycle. How inevitable is the death of our civilization? // http://diglador.tumblr.com/post/79960175464/].

In other words, the essence of human existence does not consist in anthropocentrism, but in service to the Other: “... No, Veda, I was thinking about one position of ancient Indian philosophy. It says that the world was not created for man, and man himself becomes great only when he understands the full value and beauty of another life - the life of nature ... ”(Ivan Efremov,“ Andromeda Nebula ”).

And, as it turns out, "this Other" can also be defined (considering "stone" as one of its manifestations). Namely: the Universe itself should be considered a different form of life, it is literally “woven” into its fabric, “matter”. Scientists wonder what if the physical equations themselves are a particular form of life? According to them, familiar to people organic life is one of the many forms of existence of matter. Columbia University astrophysicist Caleb Scharf believes that aliens, as "higher intelligence" have a different body structure, their organs are built from different life blocks from human ones. That is why they can exist outside the laws of physics familiar to our consciousness - without a physical shell, that is, not on a particular planet, but in the entire Universe.

Some researchers believe that one of the forms of life may be the so-called "dark matter". Scientists call this term a hypothetical substance that fills about a quarter (27%) of the Universe. Physicists invented this matter in order to explain some of the contradictions in their theories. According to experts, dark matter can be intelligent and interact with people. But its intelligent tissue is at the quantum level, and this explains the fact that many years of space exploration have not shown scientists any evidence of the presence of other life on the planets. But the method of the singularity as a fusion of technology and humanity will allow us to see the previously unimaginable. Technology will be able to decipher the dark matter of the universe. The principle of operation of such devices lies in the technology of the 3D printer.

One of the theories of radical researchers is that any civilization wants to leave life behind. And in this she can be helped by a certain backup copy of herself in parallel reality. Perhaps the higher mind wants to create it with the help of photons. The life of aliens may remain a mystery to mankind, because ignorance also has its own meaning, says Caleb Scharf.