Copyright Aug 4, 2008 by Lynn Mills. All rights reserved
 

	More on matter state change & Charge separation. Freezer burn, evaporating ice cubes and zero point energy
	It is my contention that lightning storms ensue when  H2O  molecules  that are sharing valance electrons suddenly take on extra heat which enables them maintain a full shell of 8 electrons in the valance band without having to share. The molecule is now neutral and since it carries no charge it is able to leave the liquid water through evaporation and float around in the atmosphere as a single water molecule with a full valance band of 8 electrons. As long as the water molecule is able to maintain enough heat energy it clings tenuously to that 8th electron but when thrust upwards into a colder air mass the molecule looses the heat energy it needs to support a full valance band. It is thus forced to abandoned it’s sole possession of the 8th election and the electron is expelled into the atmosphere  leaving the water molecule with a positive charge and forced to once again share a negatively charged outer valance electron with other positively charged water molecules. When huge masses of hot moist air ascend into the  heavens in the form of an up draft large billowy cumulus clouds form, climbing thousands of feet into much colder air. The molecules loose heat energy and rapidly release free electrons en mass into the atmosphere injecting the air with a negative charge. The severity of a thunderstorm depends on it's volume and how rapidly the rising column or moist air condenses.
	Now let’s look at more supporting evidence that this is true. How much food is thrown away every day because of some thing called freezer burn? What is freezer burn? Is the food actually burned? We are more exact when we call the process freeze dried. Freezer burn is just freeze dried. It is not burned. The water simply evaporates out of the frozen food. If we place an unprotected ice cube in a freezer it will continually grow lighter and lighter, smaller and smaller. How is it that ice can evaporate? Especially in light of what was just discussed in the previous paragraph. It would seem to be a dichotomy. Ice is a solid and thus another step down the valance band ladder so how can it possibly obtain enough energy to lock up a full valance band of electrons enabling it to evaporate into the air? Here is the explanation.
	Zero point energy almost certainly plays a role in the random energy spikes seen in all of nature including our shrinking ice cube. Spontaneous emissions may be the mechanism that contributes energy in the random patterns discussed here after. If we were to zoom down to the molecular level of an ice cube we would see molecules sharing electrons. In an ice cube there are more electrons being shared than there is in liquid water. But as we gazed out across the expanse of molecules we would not see a matching sea of molecules all with the same amount of shared electrons. In an ice cube that is 25 degrees F. there are, according to my speculation, hot and cold spots. If we could press a stop action button we would see molecules in a frozen state, some in the liquid state and a few in the gas state. As we unpause the scene we would see electrons being traded and exchanged so fast that at any one time some molecules would receive a full valance of electrons and others would be short changed. So you see, though an ice cube appears to be solid ice,  there are always a few small domains of liquid water and even fewer small domains of gas state water. The colder we make the ice cube the less liquid water and gas domains we will find. As we approach absolute zero the heat in the ice cube is almost none existent and so the chances of a molecule of water gaining enough heat to become liquid water for an instant is almost negligible.      In conclusion this explains nicely why we are able to freeze dry foods or night crawlers but another interesting thought is that if 'global warming is real then we are not only losing  polar ice faster through melting but also from faster ice evaporation rates! Given that there are hundreds of thousands of square miles of polar ice a small rise in the average global temperature will result in a substantial increase in the amount of  H2O being release into the atmosphere annually.
		A freeze dried night crawler on a fish hook.