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naturally occurring elements are included; i.e. man-made elements (93-118) are excluded from the above earth molecular formula as their quantities are negligible and extremely transient in structure.35 Currently, for example, it takes researchers approximately eleven days of experimentation to make three atoms of element 118 (ununoctium), which decays less than a millisecond after creation.36
The earth is a self-organizing, self-regulating system maintained far from thermodynamic equilibrium under energy flow – in these respects, it is indeed like an organism. – Mae-Wan Ho, thermodynamic research [1996]
Moreover, the sun itself, as another interesting molecular example, can likewise be defined as a large 10-element thermonuclear molecule:37
Sun Molecule HE57HeE56OE54CE53NeE53NE53FeE52SiE53MgE52SE52 A point to note here is that the molecular formula for the sun is very approximate. Although the sun is predominately composed of three elements by percent mass, i.e. hydrogen (71.0%), helium (27.1%), and oxygen (0.97%), which would make the sun essentially a 3-element molecule, about 67 elements in total have been detected in solar spectrum.38 Also, because thermonuclear reactions are continuously occurring within the sun, converting hydrogen into helium, which releases energy in the process, the traditional definition of a molecule, i.e. a structure comprised of two or more atoms, becomes subatomic and thus deviates a bit here. Nevertheless, one salient point that mediates out of these definitions is that if relationship bonds between human molecules are enhanced or evolved types of chemical bonds, then so to is the bond that attaches each human molecule to the earth as well as the bond that attaches the earth to the sun. In other words, gravity or the force of gravitation, as it should be easily proved, is in actuality, an enhanced type of chemical gravitation, as shown below. This, however, is a subject of further inquiry.39