🚀 go-pugleaf

"David Walters" <dwalters@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
news:300720001449214268%dwalters@ihug.co.nz...
>
> Is there anyone here who knows enough about physics to be able to
> usefully comment upon whether Emilio Del Giudice and Giuliano
> Preparata's theory of coherent domains has much chance of being true,
> and if it does, whether it can explain the phenomenon of the memory of
> water studied by Jacques Benveniste?

The theory of coherent domains is an attempt to rationalize the
semi-religious belief of homeopaths in the ability of water molecules to
retain an "imprint" of a molecule that was once present.  This in turn is an
elaborate rationalization of their belief that water, once exposed to a
molecule, somehow carries the chemical effectiveness with regard to "healing
properties" that the molecule has, without the damaging side effects.  This
in turn is an updated version of the ancient belief in "contact" magic - the
belief that contact with something that has magical powers can somehow lead
to a transfer of those powers.  Look up the word "tabu" in the encyclopedia.

To get back to the "theory", it amounts to the assertion that water
molecules can respond to the presence of a solute molecule by forming a
"coherent domain" that somehow persists after the solute molecule is
removed, and that the "domain" is stabilized with respect to thermal motion
of the water molecules through some unspecified "phase-locking" mechanism.

The concept has no quantitative components (there is no prediction as to
what temperatures are required to maintain the "phase-locking mechanism, for
example), it has no credible empirical data to support it (a few years ago a
French homeopathic "researcher" made some claims that were carefully
investigated and found to result from biased selection of data, among other
causes, and could not be reproduced, even by other homeopathic researchers),
and does not propose a demonstrable mechanism for the asserted effects.

In short, it is not a truly scientific theory.


Tom Davidson
Brighton, CO