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UFN, 2014 Volume 184, Number 1, Pages 43–74 (Mi ufn4695)

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Long-term dynamic structural memory in water: can it exist?

G. R. Ivanitskii, A. A. Deev, E. P. Khizhnyak

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences



Abstract: There is no experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that water retains a memory of mechanical, magnetic, and electromagnetic influences it has been exposed to and of substances it has dissolved. After its solutes have been fully removed by repeated dilutions, the water does not remember having contained them or the external physical influences exerted upon it. There is no arguable reason that water should have a molecular information matrix capable of serving as long-term memory.

PACS: 07.57.-c, 61.20.-p, 65.20.-w, 83.10.Mj, 89.70.Cf

Received: April 25, 2013
Revised: July 30, 2013
Accepted: August 2, 2013

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0184.201401b.0043


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 2014, 57:1, 37–65

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