title: Water's quantum structures and life.
abstract: This article discusses several clues pointing to the spontaneous quantum origin of the recently discovered dissipative structures induced in liquid water by low-energy physical perturbations. These structures show an astonishing permanence, so much that large ponderal quantities of supramolecular aggregates of water - at ambient pressure and temperature - subsist even in the solid phase, strongly suggesting the possibility that these structures are the matrix itself of life.
authors.affiliation: PROMETE Srl - CNR Spin off , San Giorgio a Cremano (NA) , Italy.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Germano
mesh_terms: D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D019369:Life; D011789:Quantum Theory; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014867:Water
keywords: Dissipative structures; QED; Water; fractals; low energy coherent systems