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9have disintegrated by having the atoms that comprise them break apart. In thesuggested dematerialization, a particular individual appears to have been singledout for a special kind of disintegration. This suggests the action of an intelligentbeing.The suggested dematerialization is significantly different from that whichoccurs with the break-up of nuclei in known natural processes. Type II supernovasof large stars, for example, begin with a process in a star in which hydrogen fusionproduces helium; further fusion sequences in turn produce carbon, neon, oxygen,silicon, and finally iron. 10 The effect of the process is to increase pressure in thecore of the star, which causes the iron nuclei to break up into smaller nuclei. Thisfragmentation increases the number of nuclear particles, with further nuclearreactions changing the species of nuclei present in the core. This process involvesthe break-up of nuclei, but it is not directed so specifically as is the processconjectured to have produced the Shroud. The atoms of large, indeterminatemasses comprising stars undergo dissolution, not a specific body as we see in theShroud. Another physical process that involves the fission of nuclei is radioactivedecay. This process involves random decay and does not have the precisedirectedness suggested by the conjectured process resulting in the Image on theShroud. If only random parts of the body of the Man in the Shroud had9 Such as coins over the Man’s eyes, a flower garland, a phylactery on his arm, and other objects.