- A hypothesis on the transformation of water into hydrocarbon

The Transformation of Water into Hydrocarbon Follows The Law of Nature

Yanxun Liu

Twenty years ago, the media agencies in China once reported that water had been transformed into petrol (mixed hydrocarbon) by Mr. Hongcheng Wang, which later became a highly controversial topic. Sine it is well known that petrol consists of 85% carbon and 15% hydrogen，transformation of the water into petrol (TWP), if exists, must go through the following steps: 89% oxygen in water turns into 85% carbon and 4% hydrogen of the mixed hydrocarbon, while the 11% hydrogen of the original water is preserved. This is a nuclear reaction through which oxygen element is transformed into carbon and hydrogen element. People holding traditional views argued that this is impossible and attacked fiercely that it is pseudoscience. During the many demonstrations by Mr. Hongcheng Wang, most of the audience did believe that water was transformed into petrol, although they did not know how to explain it. Therefore, the transformation of water into petrol has remained a puzzle. The author not only witnessed the TWP experiment, but also participated in part of the experiment. More importantly, the author has tested the samples he obtained and provided by others using various methods. All the results show that the petrol produced in these experiments is mixed hydrocarbon without any water. This makes me believe that TWP does happen and follows the law of nature.

In order to convince the national administration that TWP is true, I have written several papers including A Hypothesis on The Transformation of Water into Hydrocarbon [1]. In this hypothesis, I described the mechanism of the transformation as the Rearrangement of Oxygen Atoms in Water Molecular - A Free Radical Process. The first part suggests a nuclear process that is different from fission and fussion. The second part discusses that the chemical process in TWP is a free radical process.

The nuclear process I suggested can be described as: the oxygen atom inside water molecular, under certain condition, can be directly transformed into carbene and nitrene structures without nuclear fission. The limitation on the oxygen atom is that it must be within water molecular. Without nuclear fission means the nuclear reaction does not open the nuclear and then rearrange. In this nuclear process, all the structural particles inside and outside oxygen atom migrate to the new structures: carbene and nitrene. Specifically, when an oxygen atom transformed into carbene or nitrene structures, its protons and neutrons rearrange into the protons and neutrons of carbene or nitrene structures, while the eight electrons make up their counterparts in carbene and nitrene structures. All these take place inside the framework of oxygen atom. The fact that TWP can be realized under normal condition provides some important information: the force constraining the protons and neutrons inside the nuclear should not be very large. These forces are probably similar to the constraining force on quarks, which become weaker at closer distances (the theory of asymptotic freedom). Since the protons and neutrons are relatively free inside nuclear, their rearrangement should not be unusual. However, whether their arrangement turns into certain result depends on the specific condition. For example, the oxygen atom inside water molecular has all the elements to be rearranged into carbene and nitrene structures. The carbene or nitrene structures, with the reaction activity of free radicals, react with the two hydrogen atoms in water molecular to form new structures. Following this idea, the H2S molecular may have the same transformation tendency as the water molecular. The sulfide atom has all the necessary elements to rearrange into PH free radicals. Once formed, these PH free radicals react with the two hydgrogen atoms of a H2S molecular to form PH3. Of course, this has remained as a prediction. *,**

* H3P is a type of very active compound. It can react with many organic compounds to produce organic compounds of phosphorus, some of which play important roles in the evolution of life. (See relevant articles by Yufen Zhao, Fellow of Chinese Academy of Science).
** Discovery from seabed investigation: there are a large number of microorganisms around black smokers, chimney-like structures created by underwater geysers. People believe that this environment is related with the origin of life. One of the major components of the black smokers is FeS2, which can produce H2S in acid environment.

As a reader you may ask whether the Rearrangement of Oxygen Atom into Carbene and Nitrene is pure imagination, or just a coincidence with the number of protons, neutrons and electrons? My answer is that it is a law of nature discovered through associative thinking. First, the results of water into petrol process are mixtures of various organic compounds with hydrocarbon as the major component. From the point of view of chemistry, the molecular of compound must be produced during certain chemical reaction. Therefore, the nuclear process of water into petrol transformation must be accompanied by chemical process, only through which stable substances are resulted. Second, by studying the water into petrol process, I found and defined it as a duplicating process of molecular template. For example, when gasoline or diesel (both are mixtures) is added into water, the water will be turned into mixture hydrocarbon similar to gasoline or diesel. When pure glycerine or ethylene glycol is added into water, the resultant will be glycerine or ethylene glycol.

With my chemical knowledge and inspiration, I think the chemical process must be carried out in terms of free radicals. Otherwise, the duplication cannot be explained. If the process is carried in terms of free radicals, the reaction between what kinds of free radicals can result in hydrocarbon? The answers are various alkyls.

Among alkyls, CH2, the parent structure of carbene, is the most frequently appearing structure in the molecules of organic compounds. CH2 is introduced in most textbooks in a dedicated chapter, always followed by the discussion of the other chemically active substance, nitrene. Although carbene and nitrene are different in their composing elements (this makes their connections not obvious), they are very similar with each other in electron structure, spectrum, chemical activity and the producing methods. Does this imply that they have much in common at a deep level? When I though in this way, I noticed that they all have eight protons. I then drew the conclusion that oxygen atom, the only natural chemical element with eight protons is their common origin. This agrees with the necessity and result of water into petrol transformation. Thus I believe I found the rule underlying TWP: to convert water into hydrocarbon, the oxygen atom must become carbene first.

Despite my excitement, this discovery has not been published so far on traditional academic media due to a well-known reason. In the following sections, I'd like to make some comments to evaluate my work. My hypothesis is featured by simplicity and internal rationality. The simplicity is that there is only one assumption. Based on this assumption, I have established quantitative relationship between element 16O in water molecular and two other important chemical materials, carbene and nitrene structures, following the rules of atomic change. If carbene is the key material to produce hydrocarbon, while carbene and nitrene can produce organic materials containing nitrogen, this makes these topics reasonable including TWP or the transformation of water into organic materials containing nitro. In other words, a bridge has been setup between the known (the properties and structures of carbene and nitrene) and the unknown (how water turns into petrol and how life originated).

I use a symbolic model to express my view on an important natural process that 16O atoms in water molecules turn into carene or nitrene structures. Both quantitative and unique, this model is an innovation in fundamental research. This fundamental scientific principle found at the end of 20th century not only describes how inorganic materials evolve into organic materials, but also reveals the law of nature behind the origin of life. Before this, the origin of life was recognized as a chemical problem, but this becomes incomplete after the TWP was found. If water, instead of the organic soup, is the source of origin of life, the origin of life must have the same rearrangement mechanism of oxygen atoms as in TWP. Besides, biologists believe that there are two duplication processes including chemical duplication in early stage and biological duplication at later stage. I believe the duplication process in TWP is inherently related with the chemical duplication in the origin of life.

For many reasons, it will still take time for people to understand TWP. It is a mistake to simply deny the existence of WTP, which limits people's innovative thinking. The pioneering work by Hongcheng Wang provides much insight for scientists to get the answers to two questions: how nature evolves from inorganic to organic and how nature finally evolves into life. To answer these two questions, we may first analyze the conventional theory about the formation of petrol. There is no doubt that organic materials can turn into hydrocarbon under certain condition, but it is subjective to determine that petrol comes from organic materials. One contradiction is that natural gas always contains helium, which is not a component of organic materials.

Based on my understanding of TWP, TWP consumes water, not the impurities in water. Therefore, I propose a method to verify if petrol comes from water. If we classify natural water into fresh water and salty water, the salt in salty water must become isolated when the water turns into petrol. For petrol fields on land, if they can be determined as part of ancient seas like Dead Sea or salt lake, I predict that there should exist rock salt mines. While the petrol formed is fluidic and can enter suitable geological structures, the salt produced is non-fluidic and must consolidate around the petrol fields. If geologists find many such correlations, they could be the supporting evidence that petrol comes from water.

Yanxun Liu was once with the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, now retired.
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1、A hypothesis on the transformation of water into hydrocarbon
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