Transmutation of elements

A chemical revolution that was not accepted, not even considered

Corentin Louis Kervran (3 March 1901 – 2 February 1983) was a French scientist born in Quimperm Finisterre, (Brittany) 

In the 1960s, Louis Kevran claimed to have conducted experiments and studies demonstrating violations of the law of conservation of mass by biological systems, specifically during the precipitation of egg shells. As a result, he claimed that organisms can transmute potassium into calcium by nuclear fusion.

During many years, and until now, many scientists consider that Kervran ideas have no scientific basis. However, we think, that due to the importance of the subject, Kervran work must be considered very seriously and it is worthwhile to analyze it carefully.

Kervran’s thesis is that the transmutation of elements, in particular by reactions among the first few dozen of the periodic table, occurs regularly in biological systems—both in microbes and in multicellular organisms such as human beings. Transmutation is inherent to biology. He concluded that hydrogen and oxygen nuclei primarily, by adding or subtracting from other nuclei, is the essence of transmutation in biology. Some examples: 11Na + 8O --> 19K; 19K + 1H --> 20Ca; 20Ca - 1H --> 19K; or 12Mg + 8O --> 20Ca. Carbon might also participate, e.g. 14Si + 6C --> 20Ca. Kervran did not suggest how such exothermic and endothermic bio-nuclear reactions might be facilitated at the nuclear-atomic level (others would do that later1), but he did collect and correlate many anomalous biochemical observations from nineteenth and twentieth century researchers. He claimed these supported his conclusions, but he also made original observations and conducted his own experiments. If Kervran’s thesis is correct, the natural world may teem with countless bio-alchemical factories, which, in turn, work profound alterations in the mineralogical composition of the planet. Geophysics Prof. M. Camberfort wrote to Kervran in 1974, “I have spoken of your work in my most recent book, because I consider that your hypotheses, largely confirmed in certain cases, are the only ones susceptible of explaining a number of facts noted by geologists, so far explained (in geological circles) by fairy tales and old wives’ tales.” Astronomer Carl Sagan, on the other hand, wrote to Kervran in 1962: “The types of reactions which you are proposing are quite impossible in ordinary chemistry. . .I would strongly suggest that you read an elementary textbook in nuclear physics.” Sagan died in 1996, never having come to terms with cold fusion or Kervran.

In papers and books from 1959 through 1983, Kervran synthesized his biotransmutation ideas. Notable among his books, all published by Librarie Maloine in France , are: Biological Transmutations (1962), Proofs in Geology and Physics of Weak Energy Transmutations (1973), Proofs in Biology of Weak Energy Transmutation (1975), and Biological Transmutations and Modern Physics (1983). For the softbound English edition under review, translator Michel Abehsera compiled and adapted an apparently small but representative portion of Kervran’s work prior to 1970. In his Foreword, Abehsera describes a meeting with Kervran: “. . .he showed himself such a dragon in science that nothing but science was discussed. . .he knew his subject well; he seemed to have read all the scientific books and articles published all over the world, to know the work of every living scientist. And when I told him that he had given to science a new direction and hope, he answered, his face growing red, ‘I simply pointed out what has always existed.’”

During his lifetime Kervran received support for his work from several mainstream scientists who conducted biotransmutation experiments. Prominent among these was Prof. Pierre Baranger, chief of the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry at the ÉcolePolytechnique in Paris.  Prof. Baranger in the late 1950s repeated the seed growth experiments of von Herzeele (conducted and published from 1876 to 1883), in which elements appeared to be produced in seeds sprouted in distilled water alone (based on analysis of the ashed seeds and plants). Von Herzeele had found that phosphorus went to sulfur, calcium to phosphorus, magnesium into calcium, etc.—many of the findings that Kervranwould later ratify.  Baranger reported his work in January 1958 at a prestigious scientific institute in Switzerland. In an interview with the magazine Science et Vie in 1959,2 he said:

My results look impossible, but there they are. I have taken every precaution. I have repeated the experiments many times. I have made thousands of analyses for years. I have had the results verified by third parties who did not know what I was about. I have used several different methods. I changed my experimenters. But there is no way out; we have to submit to the evidence: plants know the old secret of the alchemists. Every day under our very gaze they are transmuting elements. . .I have been teaching chemistry at the ÉcolePolytechnique for twenty years, and believe me, the laboratory which I direct is no den of false science. But I have never confused respect for science with the taboos imposed by intellectual conformism. For me, any meticulously performed experiment is a homage to science even if it shocks our ingrained habits. Von Herzeele’s experiments were too few to be absolutely convincing. But their results inspired me to control them with all the precaution possible in a modern lab and to repeat them enough times so that they would be statistically irrefutable. That’s what I’ve done.

adepted from  http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue34/bookreview_biotrans.html