Another fancy idea from a purely non-chemist!

It is known that the catalysis does not take place at all on the entire surface or in the entire volume of the catalyst, but only on some “point” centers. This idea is confirmed by the action of so-called catalytic poisons. Some micro-microportions of such a poison quickly stop the catalysis reaction altogether. And, since such minuscule amounts cannot physically be distributed throughout the entire volume of reacting substances, this led chemists to believe that there are certain point centers of catalysis where a certain reaction takes place. And if these centers are neutralized with other chemical substances (catalytic poisons), then the reaction stops. Let’s recall the effect of snake or insect poisons. Microdoses of the venom of even a small Black Widow spider kill a large mammal weighing tens of kilograms. Why? Because this poison stops one or more urgently needed enzyme (i.e. catalytic) reactions and the creature dies.

But WHAT are these centers?

In my opinion, these are NOT some physico-chemical features of the catalyst that are topographically constant on its surface or in volume (for liquid catalysts). These are Phantom charges resulting from fluctuations in the total electromagnetic field of a given substance.

The pulsation frequency FOR ANY substance is determined by the temperature of the substance and it is the same for all substances at a given temperature.

But the energy spectrum of such pulsations is strictly individual for any substance. This immediately explains why catalysts are so selective and catalysis occurs only for a strictly defined reaction.

Biological catalysts. Actually, it’s incredibly much. THIRTY THOUSAND biocatalyst enzymes “work” in the human body, each of which provides ONLY ONE specific biochemical reaction.

Summary:

Thus, this hypothesis asserts two important positions, postulates:

The centers of catalysis are not some point-like, topographically constant physico-chemical features of the structure of the catalyst substance, but Phantom charges that spontaneously and randomly arise in it, fluctuations in its general electromagnetic field.

The high selectivity of catalytic reactions is due to the strictly individual energy spectrum of such emerging and disappearing phantom charges. Perhaps not just an energy spectrum, but a strictly individual sequence of peaks and troughs in the electromagnetic field strength of each such charge. It’s like a dynamic key to the lock of a chemical reaction, unlocked by it and only by it. A similar mechanism of action of the type of catalytic poison may be called ALLERGIES and idiosyncrasies.

If I’m wrong, let my seniors correct me.

11 IV 2025
P.S. By the way, if we accept the above hypothesis of the role of Phantom charges as agents that initiate not only catalytic, but chemical reactions in general, then this “automatically” explains such a phenomenon in chemistry as “cluster reactions”. That is, chemical reactions of extremely small amounts of matter (hundreds and thousands of atoms), which are strikingly different from the reactions of the SAME SUBSTANCES in quantities used in conventional chemical, say, quantitative or qualitative analysis. Because in such “cloud clusters” the number of Phantom charges decreases so significantly (purely statistically) that it already changes the entire course of the reaction.