NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository Collection: IJEB Vol.46(05) [May 2008]

Quantum nature of photon signal emitted by Xanthoria parietina and its implications to biology

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:59 GMT

Title: Quantum nature of photon signal emitted by Xanthoria parietina and its implications to biology

Authors: Bajpai, R P

Abstract: The properties of living systems are usually described in the semi-classical framework that makes phenomenological division of properties into four classes- matter, psyche, soft consciousness and hard consciousness. Quantum framework provides a scientific basis of this classification of properties. The scientific basis requires the existence of macroscopic quantum entity entangled with quantum photon field of a living system. Every living system emits a photon signal with features indicating its quantum nature. Quantum nature of the signal emitted by a sample of X. parietina is confirmed by analysing photo count distributions obtained in 20000 measurements of photon number in contiguous bins of sizes of 50, 100, 200, 300 and 500 ms. The measurements use a broadband detector sensitive in 300-800 nm range (Photo count distributions of background noise and observed signal are measured similarly. These measurements background noise corrected squeezed state parameters of the signal. The parameters are signal strength expressed in counts per bin, r =0.06, θ = 2.76 and φ = 0.64. The parameters correctly reproduce photo count distribution of any bin size in 50ms-6s range. The reproduction of photo count distributions is a credible evidence of spontaneous emission of photon signal in a quantum squeezed state for macroscopic time by the sample. The evidence is extrapolated to other living systems emitting similar photon signals. It is suggested that every living system is associated with a photon field in squeezed state. The suggestion has far reaching implications to biology and provides two ways of observing and manipulating a living system- either through matter or field or a combination of the two. Some implications and possible scenarios are elaborated.

Page(s): 420-432

Physical basis of adverse and therapeutic effects of low intensity microwave radiation

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:59 GMT

Title: Physical basis of adverse and therapeutic effects of low intensity microwave radiation

Authors: Hyland, G J

Abstract: A physical basis of adverse and therapeutic effects of low intensity microwave radiation is presented based on the concept of oscillatory similitude between the frequency of an external microwave field (together with any lower frequency modulations thereof) and those of certain endogenous dipolar coherent excitations allied to aliveness, which play the role of ‘tuned circuits’ via which a living organism is electromagnetically sensitised in a non-linear way to external fields too weak to be able to cause heating. From this perspective, an external electromagnetic field affects a living system not as a toxin but rather by perturbing its endogenous electromagnetic activity. The possibility of adverse perturbation is illustrated by reference to the microwave fields used in mobile telecommunications whose signals interfere in a non-thermal way with bio-functionality-in particular, undermining the efficacy of processes that would otherwise afford natural protection against the development of pathology. Therapeutic modalities of microwave exposure, on the other hand, are illustrated using the example of microwave resonance therapy - which can be considered as an electromagnetic version of acupuncture, and as an example of ‘quantum medicine’ - whose normalising effect on a wide range of pathologies is striking, and which affords a novel alternative to conventional pharmacological interventions.

Page(s): 403-419

Consciousness enigma: The "hard problem" – binding problem entanglement, "extra ingredient" and field principle

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:59 GMT

Title: Consciousness enigma: The "hard problem" – binding problem entanglement, "extra ingredient" and field principle

Authors: Lipkind, Michael

Abstract: The "Hard problem" of consciousness relates to the perplexing emergence of consciousness as a result of the brain activity. The binding problem concerns separate processing of perceived data in functionally and topographically segregated cortical areas and functional integration of such locally disjoined operations into coherently perceived images and events. The existing field-grounded theories of consciousness fall into two groups: (i) those based on the physical (electromagnetic) field, and (ii) those grounded on autonomous fields irreducible to the established physical fundamentals. The critical analysis of the existing theories results in formulation of the extra ingredient and a novel irreducible field-based theory of consciousness.

Page(s): 395-402

Mode coupling in living systems: Implications for biology and medicine

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:59 GMT

Title: Mode coupling in living systems: Implications for biology and medicine

Authors: Swain, John

Abstract: Complex systems, and in particular biological ones, are characterized by large numbers of oscillations of widely differing frequencies. Various prejudices tend to lead to the assumption that such oscillators should generically be very weakly interacting. This paper reviews the basic ideas of linearity and nonlinearity as seen by a physicist, but with a view to biological systems. In particular, it is argued that large couplings between different oscillators of disparate frequencies are common, being present even in rather simple systems which are well-known in physics, although this issue is often glossed over. This suggests new experiments and investigations, as well as new approaches to therapies and human-environment interactions which, without the concepts described here, may otherwise seem unlikely to be interesting. The style of the paper is conversational with a minimum of mathematics, and no attempt at a complete list of references.

Page(s): 389-394