Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms
Liquid water has been recognized long ago to be the matrix of many processes, including life and also rock dynamics. Interactions among biomolecules occur very differently in a non-aqueous system and are unable to produce life. This ability to make living processes possible implies a very peculiar s...
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| author | Paola Rosa Spinetti Alberto Tedeschi Emilio Del Giudice |
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| description | Liquid water has been recognized long ago to be the matrix of many processes, including life and also rock dynamics. Interactions among biomolecules occur very differently in a non-aqueous system and are unable to produce life. This ability to make living processes possible implies a very peculiar structure of liquid water. According to modern Quantum Field Theory (QFT), a complementary principle (in the sense of Niels Bohr) holds between the number N of field quanta (including the matter field whose quanta are just the atoms/molecules) and the phase Ф. This means that when we focus on the atomic structure of matter it loses its coherence properties and, vice versa, when we examine the phase dynamics of the system its atomic structure becomes undefined. Superfluid liquid Helium is the first example of this peculiar quantum dynamics. In the present paper we show how consideration of the phase dynamics of liquid water makes the understanding of its peculiar role in the onset of self-organization in living organisms and in ecosystems possible. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e7c2b2258bcd48cdb6fbac748614bf372022-12-22T03:01:12ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412010-09-012356658610.3390/w2030566Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living OrganismsPaola Rosa SpinettiAlberto TedeschiEmilio Del GiudiceLiquid water has been recognized long ago to be the matrix of many processes, including life and also rock dynamics. Interactions among biomolecules occur very differently in a non-aqueous system and are unable to produce life. This ability to make living processes possible implies a very peculiar structure of liquid water. According to modern Quantum Field Theory (QFT), a complementary principle (in the sense of Niels Bohr) holds between the number N of field quanta (including the matter field whose quanta are just the atoms/molecules) and the phase Ф. This means that when we focus on the atomic structure of matter it loses its coherence properties and, vice versa, when we examine the phase dynamics of the system its atomic structure becomes undefined. Superfluid liquid Helium is the first example of this peculiar quantum dynamics. In the present paper we show how consideration of the phase dynamics of liquid water makes the understanding of its peculiar role in the onset of self-organization in living organisms and in ecosystems possible.http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/3/566/watercoherencequantum electrodynamicsdissipative structuresinterfacial waterbiological evolutionecosystems |
| spellingShingle | Paola Rosa Spinetti Alberto Tedeschi Emilio Del Giudice Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms Water water coherence quantum electrodynamics dissipative structures interfacial water biological evolution ecosystems |
| title | Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms |
| title_full | Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms |
| title_fullStr | Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms |
| title_short | Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms |
| title_sort | water dynamics at the root of metamorphosis in living organisms |
| topic | water coherence quantum electrodynamics dissipative structures interfacial water biological evolution ecosystems |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/3/566/ |
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