Chronoastrobiology : proposal, nine conferences, heliogeomagnetics, transyears, near-weeks, near-decades, phylogenetic and ontogenetic memories
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2004
Citazione:
Chronoastrobiology : proposal, nine conferences, heliogeomagnetics, transyears, near-weeks, near-decades, phylogenetic and ontogenetic memories / Franz Halberg, Germaine Cornélissen, Philip Regal, Kuniaki Otsuka, Zhengrong Wang, George Silvestrovitch Katinas, Jarmila Siegelova, Pavel Homolka, Pavel Prikryl, Sergey Mikhailovich Chibisov, Daniel C. Holley, Hans W. Wendt, Christopher Bingham, Sally L. Palm, Robert P. Sonkowsky, Robert B. Sothern, Emil Pales, Miroslav Mikulecky, Roberto Tarquini, Federico Perfetto, Roberto Salti, Cristina Maggioni, Rita Jozsa, Alexander A. Konradov, Elena Valentinovna Kharlitskaya, Miguel Revilla, Chaomin Wan, Manfred Herold, Elena Vasilievna Syutkina, Anatoly Viktorovich Masalov, Piero Faraone, Ram Bahadur Singh, R.K. Singh, Adarsh Kumar, Ranjana Singh, Sasikumar Sundaram, Tina Sarabandi, Giancarlo Pantaleoni, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Yuji Kumagai, Denis Gubin, Keiko Uezono, Andras Olah, Katarina Borer, Eugene A. Kanabrocki, Srilakshmi Bathina, Erhard Haus, Dewayne Hillman, Othild Schwartzkopff, Earl E. Bakken, Michal Zeman. - In: BIOMÉDECINE & PHARMACOTHÉRAPIE. - ISSN 0753-3322. - 58:Suppl. 1(2004), pp. 150-187. [10.1016/S0753-3322(04)80025-8]
Abstract:
"Chronoastrobiology: are we at the threshold of a new science? Is there a critical mass for scientific research?" A simple photograph of the planet earth from outer space was one of the greatest contributions of space exploration. It drove home in a glance that human survival depends upon the wobbly dynamics in a thin and fragile skin of water and gas that covers a small globe in a mostly cold and vast universe. This image raised the stakes in understanding our place in that universe, in finding out where we came from and in choosing a path for survival. Since that landmark photograph was taken, new astronomical and biomedical information and growing computer power have been revealing that organic life, including human life, is and has been connected to invisible (non-photic) forces, in that vast universe in some surprising ways. Every cell in our body is bathed in an external and internal environment of fluctuating magnetism. It is becoming clear that the fluctuations are primarily caused by an intimate and systematic interplay between forces within the bowels of the earth--which the great physician and father of magnetism William Gilbert called a 'small magnet'--and the thermonuclear turbulence within the sun, an enormously larger magnet than the earth, acting upon organisms, which are minuscule magnets. It follows and is also increasingly apparent that these external fluctuations in magnetic fields can affect virtually every circuit in the biological machinery to a lesser or greater degree, depending both on the particular biological system and on the particular properties of the magnetic fluctuations. The development of high technology instruments and computer power, already used to visualize the human heart and brain, is furthermore making it obvious that there is a statistically predictable time structure to the fluctuations in the sun's thermonuclear turbulence and thus to its magnetic interactions with the earth's own magnetic field and hence a time structure to the magnetic fields in organisms. Likewise in humans, and in at least those other species that have been studied, computer power has enabled us to discover statistically defined endogenous physiological rhythms and further direct effects that are associated with these invisible geo- and heliomagnetic cycles. Thus, what once might have been dismissed as noise in both magnetic and physiological data does in fact have structure. And we may be at the threshold of understanding the biological and medical meaning and consequences of these patterns and biological-astronomical linkages as well. Structures in time are called chronomes; their mapping in us and around us is called chronomics. The scientific study of chronomes is chronobiology. And the scientific study of all aspects of biology related to the cosmos has been called astrobiology. Hence we may dub the new study of time structures in biology with regard to influences from cosmo- helio- and geomagnetic rhythms chronoastrobiology. It has, of course, been understood for centuries that the movements of the earth in relation to the sun produce seasonal and daily cycles in light energy and that these have had profound effects on the evolution of life. It is now emerging that rhythmic events generated from within the sun itself, as a large turbulent magnet in its own right, can have direct effects upon life on earth. Moreover, comparative studies of diverse species indicate that there have also been ancient evolutionary effects shaping the endogenous chronomic physiological characteristics of life. Thus the rhythms of the sun can affect us not only directly, but also indirectly through the chronomic patterns that solar magnetic rhythms have created within our physiology in the remote past. For example, we can document t
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Astrobiology; Chronoastrobiology; Chronobiology; Chronome; Chronomics
Elenco autori:
F. Halberg, G. Cornélissen, P. Regal, K. Otsuka, Z. Wang, G. Silvestrovitch Katinas, J. Siegelova, P. Homolka, P. Prikryl, S. Mikhailovich Chibisov, D.C. Holley, H.W. Wendt, C. Bingham, S.L. Palm, R.P. Sonkowsky, R.B. Sothern, E. Pales, M. Mikulecky, R. Tarquini, F. Perfetto, R. Salti, C. Maggioni, R. Jozsa, A.A. Konradov, E. Valentinovna Kharlitskaya, M. Revilla, C. Wan, M. Herold, E. Vasilievna Syutkina, A. Viktorovich Masalov, P. Faraone, R. Bahadur Singh, R.K. Singh, A. Kumar, R. Singh, S. Sundaram, T. Sarabandi, G. Pantaleoni, Y. Watanabe, Y. Kumagai, D. Gubin, K. Uezono, A. Olah, K. Borer, E.A. Kanabrocki, S. Bathina, E. Haus, D. Hillman, O. Schwartzkopff, E.E. Bakken, M. Zeman
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