Atp-synthase,is It A Plasma Gun?

The inner compartment of the mitochondria is convoluted. It's shape is the result of electric forces distorting the membrane with proton flow creating the outer and inner cristae, but by two separate mechanisms. The inner membrane is the site of the electron transport chain reactions and it is extremely negatively charged. This charge separation creates a crystal form of water that has semi-conductor properties. In fact much of the inner compartment will have the electrical properties of a PNP-junction semi-conductor as a result of this. And in this enviroment the negative charge field is strong enough to break down the N region and force the protons out along the path of the outer cristae in a column, and ejects them into the outer compartment. Once so ejected and now removed from the strong crystal P-type region they are free to tavel back towards the inner compartment but this time along a path between the outer cristae. This is done by simple attraction of opposite charges. When they travel, they meet ATP-Synthase at the valley of the cristae. ATP-Synthase is a port for proton and h3po4 transport into the inner membrane of the mitochondria. But there is something special about the amino acid configuration on the head inside the inner membrane. It has a hydrphobic factor. This hydrophobic factor breaks down a pocket of structured water within the extremely negatively charged inner compartment. This pocket is protonated and positively charged.

This situation represents an open electric current. ATP-Synthase draws electrons from the regions surrounding it's connected hydrophillic components and the electrons move into the pocket of protonated water, and H3po3.

The driving reaction is that of a fuel cell. The electrons combine with the protons and oxygen to again create water.The other more biologically important reaction is the reduction of H3po3 to produce (-)po3 and hydrogen.

It seems to me that electricity is the movement of charged particles because of charge separation. Biologically and in chemistry this often involves the movement of molecules which act as charge carrying units. In semi-conductors the charge carrying units are often protons or charge holes that act as the charge carriers. Your fridge and other household appliances typically utilize electrons as the charge carriers and this is the one we normally speak of. It is only convention that we refer to good conductors as charge carriers, since they are the ones most useful to our devices. All matter and energy carries charge, and demonstrates charge separation.

My model for mitochondrial operation is theoretical, but reasonable given new insights from research being conducted by my friend Gerald Pollack. All the details are not fully worked out yet, but conventional theories seem far less adequate. A full background is not apropriate for this form of discourse Sparky, so I will not get too much into specifics. Jerry still hasn't gotten back to me on this idea yet either.

There is inferential evidence for protein, and therefore charge gradients withing the cytoplasm. The mechanism for this is Jerry's EZ water. It may not only support charge gradients but also dictate the spatial organization of cytoplasmic proteins and organelles. The fact that the inner compartment of the mitochondria is highly negatively charged is an accepted fact of conventional thought and is already well documented and supported.

Sparky, I have never actually physically visited an electron, and that is not required of me physically before I can say that I understand one?

Plasma gun adds gravitus. If I said it sprayed electrons onto molecules, then it wouldn't have sounded as good.

ATP-Synthase isn't a widgety extruder like press, it's a plasma gun!

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Robert