Quantum fluctuations and life

Davies, Paul

doi:10.1117/12.561309

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“…In both benzene and porphyrin, and in hydrophobic aromatic amino acid groups in proteins such as tubulin, delocalizable electrons may harness thermal environmental energy to promote, rather than destroy, quantum states. Furthermore, Paul Davies (2004) has suggested that a "post-selection" feature of quantum mechanics put forth by Aharonov et al (1996) may operate in living systems, making the decoherence issue moot.…”

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A new theory of the origin of cancer: quantum coherent entanglement, centrioles, mitosis, and differentiation

Hameroff

2004

Biosystems

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A new theory of the origin of cancer: quantum coherent entanglement, centrioles, mitosis, and differentiation

Hameroff

2004

Biosystems

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“…This also led to the postulate that the integration of active information explains the phenomenon of consciousness in nature (Tononi, 2015). The origination of first life was also seen as a collection of life sustaining information from the environment, and this concept is often supported by assumptions on self-aggregation and emergence to "explain" the complexity of life, (see Davies, 2004a b, Melkikh, 2014. However these well known concepts may overlook an aspect in the origination and sustaining of life systems, namely that during the entire timeframe of biological evolution up to the present time, prebiotic and life-systems were exposed to long distance force fields such as gravity/inertia, electromagnetism, coherent quantum states of minerals and zero-point energy, related to the intrinsic earth electromagnetic field, as well as related to the location of our planet in our solar system and milky way galaxy.…”

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Phonon Guided Biology. Architecture of Life and Conscious Perception Are Mediated by Toroidal Coupling of Phonon, Photon and Electron Information Fluxes at Discrete Eigenfrequencies.

Meijer

Geesink

2016

Neuroquantology

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Recently, a novel biological principle, revealing specific electromagnetic (EM) radiation frequencies that sustain life, was presented by us on the basis of an evaluation of 175 biological articles concerning beneficial effects of electromagnetic waves on the state of living cells. This concept was also based on a very similar range of frequencies emitted by a clay-mineral catalyst of RNA synthesis that may have been instrumental in the evolutionary initiation of first life, and therefore was tentatively designated as "Algorithm of Life". The particular spectrum of frequency bands indicate that nature seems to employ discrete eigenfrequencies or standing waves that match precisely with an acoustic scale, with frequency ratios of 1:2, and closely approximated by 2:3, 3:4, 3:5, 4:5 and higher partials, allowing the discrete frequencies to be expressed in scalars. Our further studies clearly indicate now that this "life algorithm" pattern matches very well with the mathematical calculations of W. Ritz (1909) to compute eigenfrequencies of the sound induced geometric patterns. These have been earlier demonstrated through membrane vibration experiments of E. Chladni (1787), as well as several follow up studies from 1970-2013. Our findings, therefore, touch upon the science of acoustics, also since we show that the discrete frequencies could be modeled by music torus geometry. We postulate that the spectrum of EM frequencies detected, exhibit a quantum ordering effect on life cells on the basis of induction of geometric wave patterns. These constitute phonon/photon and electron wave energies, and quantum oscillations at far-infrared frequencies, that are communicated through toroidal constructive interference into scalar wave information. This idea is supported through our identification of potential intrinsic toroidal eigenfrequencies and minimal energy levels. The particular torus topology for information processing may also provide quantum error correction and protection against decoherence. Finally, we propose a phonon guided organization of cells and integral brain function by three elementary processes: 1) A phonon mediated geometric organization of coherent arrangement of water molecules in cellular plasma, leading to instructive functional organization of cellular structures and metabolic processes and enabling the origination and sustainment of life processes. 2) Toroidal phonon/photon/electron coupling, protecting standing wave coherency of resonant cell components such as proteins and DNA. 3) A toroidal integration of electromagnetic and phononic fluxes of information into scalar standing waves, promoting quantum flux of informational excitons such as Ca2+-ions and electrons (polaron and polariton formation). Our brain, therefore, can be placed in a 4+1 geometry, supported by internal and external quantum states and makes use of geometrical defined information fluxes, that are converted to standing waves. The integration of these interrelated processes is considered to be instrumental in the creatio...

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“…More recently, Davies, considered the existence of quantum replicators, related to a potential quantum algorithm. He argued that quantum mechanics may play a nontrivial role in various life processes, particularly in the physics determining the speed of polymerases (Davies, 2004). The need to involve quantum mechanics to understand the origin of living cells is firstly due to the fact that quantum processes allow a large amount of a priori information to be stored, and second, that quantum processes may better explain the accuracy by which the 3-dimensional molecular machines are constituted and work (Melkikh, 2004).…”

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“…Many studies indicate that quantum mechanical information may have had an essential role in the evolutionary creation of first life and the buildup of consciousness in nature, in particular as to the multitude of life forms that inhabit earth (Davies, 2004, Kaufmann, 2015.…”

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Quantum Wave Information of Life Revealed: An Algorithm for Electromagnetic Frequencies that Create Stability of Biological Order, With Implications for Brain Function and Consciousness

Geesink¹,

Meijer

2016

Neuroquantology

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We propose a hypothesis of a mathematical algorithm for coherent quantum frequencies, that may create stability of biological order. The concept is based on an extensive literature survey, comprising 175 articles from 1950 to 2015, dealing with effects of electromagnetic radiation on in vitro and in vivo life systems, indicating that typical discrete coherent frequencies of electromagnetic waves are able to stabilize cells, whereas others cause a clear destabilization. We find support for the hypothesis of H. Fröhlich, that a driven set of oscillators condenses in a broad energy range, may activate a vibrational mode in life organisms at room temperature. Taking into account the life sustaining frequencies, as extracted from literature, an algorithm of coherent frequencies of standing waves for the stability of biological order was inferred. Interestingly, we found that the origin of the particular biological algorithm can be mathematically approached by a selected "tempered Pythagorean" reference acoustic scale. The algorithm expresses one-dimensional wave equations known for vibrating strings. The origin of the biological algorithm was condensed in a mathematical expression, in which all frequencies have ratios of 1:2 and closely approach ratios of 2:3. This inferred algorithm was subsequently verified with regard to various frequencies of electromagnetic waves, as applied in the above-mentioned independent biological studies. It was also matched with a range of 23 different measured quantum resonances emitted by a selected inorganic silicate mineral, that is able to catalyze the oligomerization of RNA. The selected silicate was experimentally shown to act as a quantum replicator, specifically emitting EM radiation at frequencies that are fully in line with this algorithm. Such silicate quantum replicators, therefore may have been instrumental in the initiation of first replicating, life, cells at the edge of pre-biotic evolution. Our model may imply that, at the quantum scale, an underlying electromagnetically defined order may have been present, that was a prerequisite for the coding of synthesis and functional arrangement of cellular elements in biological evolution. Far infrared dynamics, reminiscent of coherent nonrelativistic super fluids in 3+1-dimensions, may have played a role. Finally, we address the question whether the identified electromagnetic fields may also influence neural systems in general and human (self) consciousness in particular. We are finding support for recent electromagnetic and stochastic zero-point energy field theories in quantum consciousness studies. The striking similarity of electromagnetic wave frequencies, detected by us in the biological studies, and in selected clay minerals, as well as in color spectra, tone scales and sound induced geometric Chladni patterns, may indicate that we identified the involvement of a universal electromagnetic principle, that underlies the observed life sustaining effects and also may have been instrumental in the creation of biologica...

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Quantum fluctuations and life

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

A new theory of the origin of cancer: quantum coherent entanglement, centrioles, mitosis, and differentiation

A new theory of the origin of cancer: quantum coherent entanglement, centrioles, mitosis, and differentiation

Phonon Guided Biology. Architecture of Life and Conscious Perception Are Mediated by Toroidal Coupling of Phonon, Photon and Electron Information Fluxes at Discrete Eigenfrequencies.

Quantum Wave Information of Life Revealed: An Algorithm for Electromagnetic Frequencies that Create Stability of Biological Order, With Implications for Brain Function and Consciousness

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