Claimed Phenomena
In 1960's, Louis Kervran claimed to have conducted some experiments and studies demonstrating phenomena such as anomalous increase of calcium and decrease of potassium levels during the formation of egg shells. Here, "anomalous" refers to a violation of the Lavoisier principle. He has formulated the biological transmutation hypothesis as an explanation for such phenomena.
For example, one of the claims is that biological organisms can transmute potassium into calcium by the addition of one hydrogen nucleus: K39 + H1 = Ca40. None of the fusing elements would be travelling at high velocity since biological organisms lack any mechanism to do this. The environment would have neither high pressure nor high temperature since no biological organisms could survive the required pressure and temperature, not even for extremely short periods of time. This amounts to having a nuclear fusion reaction in a low energy environment, which would go against basic physical laws.
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