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On Carboniferous Gigantism and Atomic Shrinking

Version 1 : Received: 19 November 2020 / Approved: 20 November 2020 / Online: 20 November 2020 (12:24:04 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 20 November 2020 / Approved: 23 November 2020 / Online: 23 November 2020 (09:46:17 CET)

How to cite: Haraux, A. On Carboniferous Gigantism and Atomic Shrinking. Preprints 2020, 2020110544. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202011.0544.v1 Haraux, A. On Carboniferous Gigantism and Atomic Shrinking. Preprints 2020, 2020110544. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202011.0544.v1

Abstract

A long standing problem in paleontology is the presence of giant arthropods during the so-called carboniferous era. The same difficulty occurs for the size of plants at the same period. We devise a possible answer to this question entirely different from the theories developed until now, based on the hypothesis that the size of atoms is decaying for very large times and the dimensions of polymers such as chitin and cellulose, containing expansible holes, are decreasing more slowly than rigid materials such as metals, alloys, composite materials and stone. Incidentally, this hypothesis might also give an alternative statement to the expansion of space.

Keywords

atoms; nucleus, electrons; energy; spectral shift; polymers

Subject

Physical Sciences, Biophysics

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