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About the Author Mushroom Research In graduate school, at the University of Arizona, I studied yeast physiology and stumbled onto the basic control mechanisms for mushroom formation. I then did mushroom research studying the morel mushroom on a farm in central South Dakota. Being independent allows me to explore the details of total morel mushroom biology in ways which are not possible at universities. Not the least problem at universities is that grant providers in the bureaucracies do not allow exploratory research which they assume to be a waste of time. They assume research is acquiring numbers with high technology, not an involved procedure of study. After getting significant results with mushrooms, I attempted to publish in the science journals but was locked out. Science is a good-old-boys club, and I was an outsider. So I put the results on the internet. In studying the morel mushroom I found unprecedented evolution, as the morel is in the process of evolving from a yeast. This is probably the first time in hundreds of millions of years that a single celled organism evolved into a multi celled organism, and it is occurring now. The recent and rapid evolution shows effects unheard of in biology. University scientists who study the morel are not aware of morel evolution and they create irrational explanations for their unusual results. For the detailed science of this subject, check the web page titled Biology on my morel mushroom web site. Physics In 1982, I was reading a magazine called Science Digest. An article said astronomers observed masses flying out of quasars at ten times the velocity of light. Other physicists said it must be an optical illusion, because relativity indicates that nothing can move faster than the speed of light. I was thinking about Einstein's equation which says that the energy in matter is equal to its mass time the velocity of light squared. It occurred to me that he would have had something if he hadn't squared the velocity of light, because nothing can move at velocity squared. He would have then been saying that there is enough energy in an atom to accelerate small particles to the speed of light. But the apparent reason why he squared it was because he was making a vague parallel to the equation for kinetic energy, which has mass times velocity squared in it. So I looked into the subject. There is a precursor formula for the kinetic energy equation. It says force times distance equals kinetic energy for an accelerating mass. I recognized the force-distance analysis to be erroneous, because the force does not move through any distance relative to the mass it acts upon. I evaluated the applications of energy and found contradictions everywhere due to the error. I eventually developed two mathematical proofs of the error, as shown on my website titled Energy Misdefined in Physics. Guess why nothing can supposedly move faster than the speed of light. An equation was synthesized, called the Lorentz equation, which limits any velocity (v) to a plugged in velocity for light (c). There's no rhyme or reason for the Lorentz equation to exist—no study, no evidence, no logic, no purpose but to limit the velocity of light.
Yeast Research The yeast that I studied, Nadsonia fulvscens, appears to be the only yeast which adapted specifically for growing on tree sap. Many yeasts will grow on tree sap while not being adapted specifically for that ecology. N.f. stores up cell reserves while nutrients are available and then forms a spore when nutrients run out. To prevent spores from forming while nutrients are available, a product of metabolism, acetate, accumulates in the surrounding medium and represses spore formation. When nutrients run out, the released acetate is metabolized away allowing spores to form. Through acetate repression of sporulation a maximum amount of cell growth can occur without being disrupted by sporulation. Spores then form in the absence of available nutrients relying entirely upon stored up cell mass. This process is called endotrophism. Mushrooms do the same thing. They store up cell mass in the mycelium and then use it to rapidly form a mushroom, because speed is important in preventing the mushroom from getting eaten or dehydrating before releasing its spores. Published Science
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