Chapter: 7
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General
[X] Time
[X] Name age
Geography
[X] List of biomes
[ ] Put Dianthos map to full projection
[ ] List changes in atmosphere and water composition
[ ] Clearly define sea level
[ ] Label this age’s map
Mythology
[X] Outline full story
[ ] Determine Gods
[ ] Choose disaster separating time zones
[ ] Outline part 4 story
[ ] Verify story includes all parts: General, Time, Geography, Taxonomy, Mythology
[ ] Write part 4 story
Taxonomy
[X] Describe all clades
[ ] Invent fish
[ ] New clades
Reality
[X] Clay sculpture of organisms
[ ] Wood sculpture of organisms
Time
64-hour rotations
32-hour days & 32-hour nights
8-day weeks
60-week years
+5 days (+320 hours)
484.86 days per year
31,031.031 hours per year
Earth Inspirations
Chitin - arthropoda
Graptolite
Echinoderms
Muscles
Nerves = Mycelium
Villi → tuning fork
Trees
Backbones
Arandaspis
Spikes
Lobes
Eyes
Sexual reproduction
Cephalization
Post-caudal fins
Giant Tube Worms
Notes
One food web per biome
Biome in one area has some niche diff habitals as same biome in another area
Use tuning forks as microvilli/cilia
This age is separated from previous because of competition
Inter-body Communication is done chemically and vibrationally
Future → Electrochemicals, Radiation, and Magnetism
Intra-body communication: need for speed
Need some replacement for nerves
Need some type of insulating sheath (myelin) for nerves if they are electric
Split age into early and late
Early - Ediacaran. Competition. Base body plans for all future
Late - Mature ecosystems
Thin layer between boundaries creates colorful lines. Bubble in wand, air/vacuum between glass slides.
Caused by constructive and destructive light interference
Evolution of bilateral
Line → Spiral → Alternating → true bilateral → extrudes two from one { ← | | → }
Acidic water causes iron to leach. Dissolved oxygen turns Fe2+ into Fe3+ which precipitates out and forms layers in rock causing banding in rocks. This is a cycle that repeats.
Water composition story:
Acidic water causes organisms to create their own alkaline solutions for internal homeostasis. They surrounded themselves with a layer of alkaline liquid around their skin. At a critical point, vast swathes of these organisms die and cause build up of carbonates to precipitate into rocks. This is a repeating cycle that goes on for dozens of millions of years. During a tectonic event, worldwide tons of this material is dissolved into the water raising the pH by 0.5 every hundred years, causing a major extinction event.
ChatGPT:
In Dianthos's ancient oceans, teeming with life adapted to acidic conditions, organisms developed a unique survival mechanism: they produced their own solutions for internal homeostasis,and surrounded their skin with a layer of alkaline liquid, combating the corrosive nature of their environment. Zinc ions also helped their internal fluids to be inert to sulfide compounds. This biochemical innovation was widespread, marking a golden age of biodiversity in the planet’s harsh waters.
However, this golden age had an expiration date. The relentless production of alkaline substances led to an unforeseen consequence: upon the death of these organisms, their remains—rich in carbonates—accumulated on the ocean floor. Over dozens of millions of years, this resulted in vast deposits of carbonate compounds, locked away in the sediment.
The planet's restless nature eventually turned the tide of life. A cataclysmic tectonic event, stirring the very foundations of Dianthos, caused these ancient, carbonate-rich deposits to dissolve into the ocean waters on a global scale. This dissolution process initiated a slow but irreversible transformation of the planet’s oceans, raising the pH by 0.5 every hundred years or so.
As the waters grew less acidic, the delicate balance that had allowed life to flourish under acidic conditions was undone. Ecosystems that had taken millions of years to evolve were decimated, leading to a major extinction event. New niches emerged, favoring organisms that could thrive in the shifting chemical seascape, laying the groundwork for a new era of evolution on Dianthos.
Materials
Buckminsterfullerene
Spherical form of carbon
one of the largest objects exhibiting spherical symmetry
high stability and an ability to behave both as semiconductors and superconductors under different conditions
Behave like ball bearings
The optical absorption properties of C60 match the solar spectrum in a way that suggests that C60-based films could be useful for photovoltaic applications. Because of its high electric affinity it is one of the most common electron acceptors used in donor/acceptor based solar cells. Conversion efficiencies up to 5.7% have been reported in C60–polymer cells
soluble in non oxygenated organic solvents such as toluene and carbon disulfide. The solutions are purple, magenta, or green
Carbon nanotube fullerenes - very strong very tiny
Bismuth Pyrochlore
Possible superconductor
ultra-high energy storage density capacitors (around 90 J/cm3 with very low energy loss below 3%) using bismuth pyrochlore-based dielectric film material with high reliability
These pyrochlore ceramic films can endure voltage strength up to ∼900 V
Zinc ions prevent oxygen in hemoglobin from reacting with sulfides
thiotrophic (sulfide-oxidizing) bacteria
Thermophoresis is the transport force that occurs due to the presence of a temperature gradient
Crystal evolution
Unit cell fills the lattice space without overlapping or voids (Basic level biome)
If arbitrary translations were allowed, one could make a primitive cell half the size of the true one, and translate twice as often