It's what happens when you hold in your farts
For centuries scientists have been trying to explain away cases of spontaneous human combustion using the normal burning process, where a combustible substance is ignited in the air, and uses oxygen to sustain itself.
They have all failed, despite the claims of debunkers and skeptics to the contrary. Spontaneous human combustion is not a normal burning process. It does not rely on the "wick effect." The reality is that living human bodies will not consume themselves to ash. For example, let's say you knock someone out with drugs and then cut their abdomen to expose a layer of their fat, and then somehow manage to make that fat burn by using some common ignition source such as a cigarette or a candle flame or a burning ember from a fireplace ... that person will not continue burning until his bones are reduced to powered ash. That simply never happens, ever. Not ever.
The reason science has failed is, as usual, because scientists are looking in the wrong place. Spontaneous human combustion is not any form of chemical process. It is an atomic process. It is a type of cold fusion. You may have seen cold fusion experiments in which intense heat and light are released in a test tube, and in which this nuclear "burning" sustains itself for seconds or minutes. Much more energy has been liberated than was fed into the experiment, in certain very hard-to-reproduce cases, so much more energy that the apparatus melts.
My contention is that spontaneous human combustion uses a similar nuclear process. It may not be the same in its components, but the result is similar -- the release of massive amounts of highly localized heat. Those who have seen the flame of spontaneous human combustion report it to be blue in color, and to resemble the flame of a welding torch. It shoots out of the body in a jet from the site of the burning. A blue flame is usually a very hot flame. Hot enough to turn flesh and even bone to fine powdered ash. But so localized that it does not ignite newspapers that are only a few feet away.
In one historical case, a man who started to burn was helped by friends, who tried to put out the fire inside his body with water. They poured water over the hole where the blue flame was issuing forth through his skin. The water had no effect on the burning. The man died.
This hypothesis I've offered may explain why the most advanced chemists and physicists and biologists have been totally unable to explain spontaneous human combustion in a reasonable manner. It is not normal burning, but somethng else entirely.
If we don't think outside the box, we stay inside the box.
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