Photosynthesis

Applying my cosmology to plant life, like any other creature on this planet they too must eat and drink. Through photosynthesis plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) and expel the oxygen (O) we breathe. However there is a flaw in our understanding of this dynamic, that plants produce oxygen, they do not. Plants do not create what is already available in abundance. They do not produce oxygen, they free and release it.

Water H2O and Carbon Dioxide CO2 already have oxygen molecules in their structure. Through photosynthesis plants break down and restructure these molecules and release what they do not need. Cosmologically carbon is a structural material and hydrogen is that which is to be structured. A plants diet is sunlight and water, it is carbohydrate based. Plants are metabolizing and digesting molecules, not generating new elements. They take in what they need and excrete what they don’t like any other animal does.

However what makes plants special is that their excretion is a tool. There is an unseen aspect to the dynamics of photosynthesis. The oxygen released is not a simple waste product, it is a hunting and gathering tool. Oxygen molecules are sent out and they attract more hydrogen and carbon molecules to themselves and fall back down to the surface of the Earth. Oxygen already exists within the environment, only trapped within a host matrix, not unlike gold or other minerals trapped within a host rock. Extraction of these minerals from their host requires a specific chemical reaction; a synthesis of some kind.

From above and below, plants are releasing what is trapped within. From a hunter gatherer perspective oxygen goes out and attaches itself to other molecules and upon returning via the air or water, they return to their source with tithes and offerings. For plants the oxygen molecule is the perfect foraging tool, it always returns with a feast.

This is how photosynthesis works. Above and below oxygen returns to source with what it needs to build its temple, itself; the plant structure. photosynthesis is not a simple generative chemical process, it is a reconstructive one; a dynamic, intelligent, and cyclical process. An active hunt for resources, not a passive process of waste management.

The process also highlights the importance of hydrogen as the key pillar to life itself. It is what life strives for. It is not a simple element, it is the driving force of creation itself.