On the nature of growth and new growth based on experiments designed to reveal a structure and function for laboratory space. Part I. A synopsis of experimental results and discussion (thermodynamics aspects, transmission of cell radiations, the role of oxygen).
Experiments were designed to investigate the contribution of space existing outside the immediate range of chemical reactions of crystal growth and biological phenomena with special reference to growth. Results have been interpreted on the basis that space has both structure and function. Properties derived from the interpretation include action at a distance, memory and the ability to sustain matter in steady states which inter alia constitute patterns of growth. A throughflow (or dissipation) of space was shown necessary to sustain the pattern. Patterns so formed in biomatter can reproduce themselves as virtual images which can be rescued as real images which exhibit a remarkable fidelity of copy. The discussion enters contributions to the prime idea that space has structure and function by recource to modern ideas on non-linear thermodynamics, radiations between cells, quantum field theory and vortex theory, only the first two of which are treated in this paper.
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Queen Elizabeth II Research Institute for Mothers and Infants, University of Sydney, Australia.
D000818:Animals; D002450:Cell Communication; D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D003460:Crystallization; D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D013816:Thermodynamics
D010100:Oxygen