The world is cognized in comparison both at the micro levels and at the macro.
Here I propose to look at how, like the biological tissue of living beings, the stony skin of the planet is formed.
Just as there are different types of bones and coverings in animals, plants and humans, there are many varieties of the Earth's skin, which can be considered its outer armor - an exoskeleton.
An exoskeleton is an external type of skeleton in some invertebrates.
The oldest fossilized exoskeletons date back to about 550 million years ago.
The exoskeleton is typical for most invertebrates, in which it is presented in the form of a shell (many protozoa, molluscs) or cuticle (chitinous shell of arthropods). A characteristic feature of these formations is that they do not contain cellular elements.
A skeletal revolution is associated with the advent of the exoskeleton.
The exoskeleton supports and protects the animal's body, and is also a mechanical barrier that serves as the first stage of defense against infection.
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Porous stone:
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Such porous structures are found all over the world, and in different variations and scales (different types and subspecies of rocks).
For comparison with biological and silicon forms of life, I cite macro and micro photos.
Charcoal under a microscope:
Crimea:
Turkey:
Mango leaf under the microscope.
Cutaway of a blade of grass:
Bottom surface of walnut leaf:
Primorye:
Petrified Bone:
Sandstone Crimea:
Cactus:
Sandstone:
Crimea: cheese rocks.
China (GOCCEADA):
Jordan:
Mucus under a microscope:
Further photos from all over the world. Googling "honeycomb rock" or "cheese stone" will find even more.
Apparently, many pores over time fill with solid rock like crystals, growing, filling the space and losing their original shape.
Breccia: smoky quartz cemented with feldspar.
For example, like here. Breccia: smoky quartz cemented with feldspar.
Or here:
Or here:
And maybe here too The question is only in the quality of the stone and on different scales. Ural:
England.
Mushroom.
Desert aerial:
Mushrooms.
50-fold enlargement of the liverwort of Barbilophozia Sp:
Red porous stone.
Corals in limestone:
Sphinx.
Rhinoceros:
Coral montlivaltia. Location: limestone outcrops near Izmailovsky forest park:
Graphite particles in polymer polyester resin:
Graphite particles in polymer polyester resin:
Porous glass under a microscope:
Neurons:
And here is the sprout of the stone:
Cave monastery Kachi Kalion, Crimea:
Apple skin slice:
Human skin section:
Lake Shira:
Nat. Zion Park:
Khudess labyrinth:
A walnut tree petal under a microscope:
This is hardly natural, but only at first glance:
Pay attention to the right side below, there are also clearly drawn squares:
Bektau-Ata (KZ):
Borovoe lake:
Italy:
And in many other places:
It also looks like traces of melting / water washing.
Truncated hornbeam Clavariadelphus truncatus:
Stalactites:
Morels:
Truffle:
A rock:
A particle of ground coffee under a microscope.
Lava:
"But there are clearly different effects of weathering shown here, or just the air in the magma is stuck!" - the reader will say.
Perhaps in some cases, but not in all, because everything is fractal and similar.
What prevents the stone from growing and even sore (destroyed), like bone or skin?
Desert satellite:
"Goose" human skin:
Psoriasis in humans:
Rhodochrosite crystal slice, epidermis and amethyst:
Aerial photography of the desert:
Lizard skin:
Path of the Giants:
Desert in Libya:
Onion meristem, mitosis, prophase and anaphase:
Osteoporosis (Latin osteoporosis) is a chronically progressive systemic metabolic disease of the skeleton or a clinical syndrome that manifests itself in other diseases, which is characterized by a decrease in bone density, violation of their microarchitectonics and increased fragility due to impaired metabolism of bone tissue with a predominance of catabolism over bone formation processes, a decrease in strength bones and an increased risk of fractures.
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Everything in our world grows, expands and has consciousness. If the consciousness, the passage of time and the growth rates of stone rocks differ significantly from ours (for a stone, entire civilizations fly by like sparks of a fire), this does not mean that they are dead and motionless. It also does not mean that you cannot negotiate with them if you wish, speed up or slow down their formation (in every sense), teach and guide how you can interact with any living being. "Fairy tales and legends" of all peoples of the world are full of stories reflecting all this.
Most of our mountains have long been "ripe", their growth processes have stopped or slowed down significantly, but many continue to grow, although so far this growth can be observed only in comparison with other living tissues, because its time is stretched or close to freezing. If we could film mountain ranges on camera for a thousand years and run at 10,000 times acceleration, we would see it, as well as what we call "tectonic plate movements", which essentially repeat the process of cell or crystal growth (see. higher).
As with all living things, stones can have different races and types, structures, growth rates, sizes, softness, hardness, malleability in management (compliance or non-cooperation) and the establishment of growth programs, porosity and methods of appearance on (visible to us) shine. Considering that any stone consists of crystals, and crystals have not hefty abilities to accumulate energy information and tend to grow, the possibility of growth of the stone itself in different forms and principles (including fractally similar to biological ones) is more than obvious. Thus, it is possible not only to cultivate and teach these mineral forms of life, but also to negotiate with them about the production of building materials, new types of ores and other utilities, which our ancestors did.
The science of geology has no idea how a rock is formed, it can only give a description of the obvious, but clearly and step by step explain the processes of rock formation from a grain of sand to a rock mass - it cannot or does not want to. Most of the mountains are considered volcanic in origin - too simple, superficial and magmadogmatic conclusion.
In some cases this is true (although what counts as volcanoes is also a big question, we will also discuss it), but not in all. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of types and methods of stone formation, starting from the micro (quantum, atomic, etheric, plasma) level and further to the macro scale.
It is time for "scientists" to realize that our Planet is Reasonable, like every molecule of matter on it. She not only breathes and grows, but also accumulates experience, evolves, becomes more intelligent and is ready to cooperate with a person if he stops raping her and her children. If this understanding does not happen, coming out of a centuries-old hibernation, she can stretch out and straighten the folds so that it does not seem a little, and this has already happened more than once, as everyone knows very well from school. Only the causes of earthly cataclysms are unknown or are hidden, although nothing happens just like that.
Some rocks cover post-war wounds and remnants of the ancient civilizations of the Earth, others increase heights after floods, others close the entrances to the dungeons, from which, if desired and access, you can go down to the lower worlds or safely pass under the planet's surface in thousand-kilometer tunnels, the fourth are used for sowing minerals or building fortified dwellings. Sometimes all together in one bottle.
More about this in upcoming posts.
If other comparisons come to mind, don't hesitate)
FRT from comments:
Everything in the World is “Systems with behavior”. People are also "Systems with behavior."
All "Systems with behavior" exchange information-meanings among themselves. This provides the necessary interaction. The quality and efficiency of interaction depends on the Commonality of the Interaction Languages. This is the deepest Law of Nature.
Shooting objects near Yekaterinburg, Lake Melkoye area: