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[Bioenergetics].

Abstract

As introduced previously, the information field can serve as a base for inferences in terms of dynamics but also of relativity, with the latter being discussed regarding the possibility of transformation between information and energy (and mass as well). An energy equivalent of information is obtained: b, a new constant of nature, patterned after the mechanical equivalent of heat. Some approaches to the calculation of b are considered. Proceeding from the laws of transformation, a more general rule of information conservation is obtained, which may also be written as an equation of matter. The transformations can be presented also by geometrical means. In the m-W-I model space, all biological processes seem to be functions of time. By letting time be x4 = ict with a view to the spatial coordinates of the model space, the Minkowski space is shown to apply to biology too, where it seems to have implications similar to those it has in physics. In 2 tables, a systematic listing of origins and results of biodynamics and bioenergetics (biorelativity) is given.

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G Fischer. 1987. [Bioenergetics].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3305140/

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