| pH scarecrow -
09-11-2007, 04:21 PM
For birds, scarecrows are frightening. These could appear like human figures or other birds of prey: owls, hawks, or eagles. For people, these could still frighten little children but not adults except for those who lack certain intellect or are superstitious, belief not based on reason or knowledge or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious leading to blind acceptance and panic. On the other hand, the greenhouse effect posts no visible direct warning sign threatening life on earth. Atmospheric scarecrow does not exist. However, indirectly gradual increased temperature affected ice formation in the Polar Regions and caused the rise of sea level, furthermore, dissolved gases of CO2, nitrogen oxide, and sulphur dioxide in rain, snow, or hail form respectively carbonic, nitric, and sulphuric acids. Their deposition damages plant growth, impairing ability for photosynthesis. Acid contamination in soil leached essential nutrients and runoff into rivers and lakes that eventually become unable to support fish life. All these start to destroy the bottom food chain. In the end, they also affect those at the top, namely the human populations. Therefore, a pH scarecrow exists. It is the litmus test for the imbalance of positive ions (H+ or proton) and negative ions (OH- or hydroxide minus). This is fundamentally a test for acidity (red) vs. alkalinity (blue) for the health of an ecosystem. Logarithmically, a pH value of 7 indicates neutrality and its color should be green. Less than 7 mean increasing acidity. Greater than 7 mean increasing alkalinity. Neither of these extremes supports life. This fact suggests that the living plasma state of any ecosystem is a perfect balance between positive and negative, yin and yang, of electric charge, but not a balance of mass. As plasma transporters, negative OH- ion (atomic mass unit = 17) lag behind positive H+ ion (amu = 1), while H+ ion lag negative electron e- (amu » 0 or about 1/1836). Time independence: [∂E(g)]²=[∂F(a)×∂r(a)]·[∂F(b)×∂r(b)] and Mass independence: ¶a(t)·¶r(t)=c² |