Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding : Proceedings of the International Workshop, Acireale, Catania, Italy, 18-22 September 2002Larissa S. Brizhik, Francesco Musumeci, Mae-Wan Ho This volume contains papers based on the workshop OC Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological UnderstandingOCO, held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as the photon interaction with biological systems also from the viewpoint of photon information processes and of possible applications; the influence of electromagnetic fields on the self-organization of biosystems including the nonlinear mechanism for energy transfer and storage; and the influence of the structure of water on the properties of biological matter." |
Contents
Foreword vii | 1 |
Delayed Luminescence and Motional Harmonicity | 14 |
Search for Quantum and Classical Modes of Information Processing | 31 |
From Molecular Machines to Coherent Organisms | 63 |
New Hierarchic Theory of Water and Its Role in Biosystems | 82 |
How the Absorption of Monochromatic Visibletonear IR Radiation | 148 |
Analysis and Models of RealWorld Networks | 188 |
On the Physics of Ultraweak Bioluminescence and Intercellular Photon | 205 |
How Can Physics Help? | 245 |
Delayed Luminescence and Cells Structure Organization | 264 |
Life as a Fourth Level of Quantum Organization of Nature | 293 |
A New Advanced Research Equipment for Fast Ultraweak | 308 |
Conclusive Remarks | 347 |
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