Quasi-quantum phenomena: the key to understanding homeopathy

Homeopathy

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 104-112

  Molski, Marcin ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Crystallization and dissolution; Entanglement; Gompertzian systems; Homeopathy; Non locality; Quantum coherence; Zwietering Gompertz function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; HOMEOPATHY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77952107158     PISSN: 14754916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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