the + side ladder at 1%, in quartz · page: plus-side-ladder-one-percent-in-quartz.html five windows · rev36 (the amethyst store) frozen beside it · title withheld LEGEND LIT measured · AMBER chosen · DEAD disproven · ▓ control caught · ⚑ dissent ============================================================================== IN PLAIN WORDS: read as 1% of the crystal given to guests, in your order, each one adding + charge or a hole. quartz lets guests in by size. at 1% only the small ones fit: arsenic and fluoride on the + side, carbon as a neutral. boron is at the edge. gallium, indium, mercury are far too big. potassium is too wide for the channel. argon and electrum have no place in the lattice. potassium and argon are parent and daughter, so together they make a clock. 1% gives one guest per channel in 18.0 nm of film on average, but at random only 37% of channels get exactly one. flag: "1%" might also mean the step between levels; built as the share. ============================================================================== ~~> THE LADDER (bar = what size alone allows, | = 1%, each mark ≈ ×2) AMBER 14 m modal not an element 13 l life not an element 12 k potassium channel 2.4x too tight DEAD 11 j julietset not an element 10 i indigo .................| 2.2e-13 DEAD 09 h hermes .................| 1.3e-48 DEAD 08 g +gaia-gravity .......| 49 ppm DEAD 07 f flouride |##### 39% + side 06 e eclectrum no site in the lattice (grains: 10,000 g/t) 05 d david not an element 04 c cabon |## 6.6% neutral 03 b boron .| 0.63% AMBER 02 a argon no site in the lattice 01 arsenic |#### 28% + side 00 · . . · , , · ,. · ., · 00 : 00 misfit cost 8πG·r·Δr², checked on iron (ceiling 7 ppm, real 4-40) and aluminium (ceiling 2.2%, real ≤ 0.03%): good to about x10 ▓1 ~~> THE LETTERS LIT rung n carries letter n-1: a..m on rungs 2..14, 13 letters, the first half of the alphabet. 9 written, 4 implied (l i f a), each starting its word. only k is a symbol, not a first letter: potassium, K your VM: 97 + ... + 109 = 1339 ~~> THE ZERO SIDE LIT '. .' ', ,' ',.' '.,' = every ordered pair over { . , }: two bits 00 : 00 closes on both zeros ~~> ONE PER CHANNEL LIT 3 silicon sites per cell; 1% x 100 sites = one guest 100 sites = 33.3 cells = 18.0 nm (33 cells short, 34 pass; your VM: 34) at random, mean one: 37% exactly one · 37% none · 26% two or more ~~> THE CLOCK: 12 potassium -> 02 argon LIT K-40 -> Ar-40 in 10.7% of decays, half-life 1.25 billion years 1% K: 0.8 mGy a year from its own betas: a kilogray in 1.2 Myr the store writes itself, very slowly, and counts its own age ~~> THE FOUR THAT AREN'T ELEMENTS AMBER 14 modal: the lattice's vibration modes, 9.8e12 per second, behind every keep time · 13 life: a level's lifetime · 11 julia set: keep or escape, the same test a trapped charge takes · 05 david: the reader ~~> THE DISSENT ⚑ 1% at random is not one per channel. one per channel means placing each ion (implant through a mask, or grow layer by layer) GATES verify 31/31 · crosscheck 12/12 · browser desktop + phone, 0 errors Lean 6 thms, 0 axioms on the sort · 5 poisons + control · 2nd kernel