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The vital phenomenon is not of a chemical order... The nucleus of the atom in light elements is quite different from what nuclear physics regards as the average type, the latter having value only for the heavy elements... Nature moves particles from one nucleus to another ¾ particles such as hydrogen and oxygen nuclei and, in some cases, the nuclei of carbon and lithium. There is thus a transmutation... Biological transmutation is a phenomenon completely different from the atomic fissions or fusions of physics... it reveals a property of matter not seen prior to this work.
Can I call bullshit on this?

I'm not questioning the merit or Kervran's work, but truly to claim that nuclear physics has nothing to do with this...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 02:46:51 PM EST
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wha?

Migeru:

that nuclear physics has nothing to do with this...

i though nuclear physics had to do with like, everything...

seriously, (for me anyway lol).

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 06:02:35 PM EST
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Anyway, the Wikipedia page on Louis Kervran makes interesting reading...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 06:08:01 PM EST
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<don't encourage him> ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 06:26:08 PM EST
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