Vol. 15, no.4, 2023
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METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
VLADIMIR I. VERNADSKY AND THE NEW PARADIGM
Gennady V. Mishinsky
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, http://www.jinr.ru/
Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
E-mail: mysh@jinr.ru
Received October 09, 2023, peer-reviewed October 16, 2023, accepted October 23, 2023, published December 06, 2023.
Abstract: The main directions of V.I.Vernadsky's scientific activity during the period of the scientific revolution occurred at the end of the 19th and until the middle of the20th centuries are briefly listed. His decisive contribution to the initial research and practical application of the phenomenon of radioactivity and nuclear physics is shown. Based on the discovery of low-energy nuclear reactions more than 30 years ago, the development of Vernadsky's ideas about the role of radioactivity − the transformation of some chemical elements into other chemical elements − in geology, in the thermal balance of the Earth, in the prevalence of trace chemical elements is presented. Main provisions of the theory of low-energy nuclear reactions in condensed matter are listed: the threshold for excitation of the medium is indicated; shown is the possibility of generating a strong magnetic field in a unidirectional flow of electrons in a quasineutral plasma with the pairing of free electrons, and, subsequently, the pairing of atomic electrons into orthobosons with the latter forming a Bose-Einstein condensate, in which a new state of matter is formed − transatoms, which are combined, due to their ultra-strong magnetic fields, into nuclear transmolecule, in which multinuclear transmutation reactions occur with non-radioactive products; with the transformation of transmolecules into different sets of stable nuclei, subject to all conservation laws. In this case, the collective parameter that characterizes the quasi-equilibrium distribution of the mass numbers of isotopes – reaction products – is the “thermodynamic” coefficient of the energy content of the medium. Natural nucleosynthesis in the era of recombination of the Universe, which gave rise to the formation and development of organic chemical, and subsequently biochemical synthesis, is described. The development of Vernadsky's doctrine of the biosphere and noosphere of the Earth is supplemented by the concept of fractality of material, including biological structures with the further evolution of living matter, as well as by the concept of planetary nucleosynthesis. Starting from the idea of planetary nucleosynthesis, based on the mechanism of multinuclear quantum transitions of some atomic nuclei to others, a new doctrine of the geological development of the Earth and the foundations of quantum planetology were formulated, which explained the strict temporal cyclicity observed in the geological activity of the Earth associated with galactic jet energy flows. The issues discussed may become a basis for those directions in scientific research that will form a new paradigm, a new worldview.
Keywords: Vladimir I. Vernadsky, paradigm, low-energy nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, fractals, living matter, biosphere, noosphere, philosophy of science
PACS: 01.70.+w; 03.75.Mn; 25.60.Pj; 25.70.Hi; 52.25.Xz; 91.35.Nm; 96.12.je; 98.70.Sa
RENSIT, 2023, 15(4):463-482e DOI: 10.17725/rensit.2023.15.463
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