Weak, strong, and coherent regimes of Fröhlich condensation and their applications to terahertz medicine and quantum consciousness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4219-4224

  Reimers, Jeffrey R ^a   McKemmish, Laura K ^a   McKenzie, Ross H ^b   Mark, Alan E ^b   Hush, Noel S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Coherence; Microwave reactor; Orchestrated objective reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COGNITION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; ENZYME KINETICS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MEDICINE; MICROTUBULE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RADIOFREQUENCY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYMES; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; TUBULIN; VIBRATION;

EID: 63149121155     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806273106     Document Type: Article

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