INDEX
- Editorial
S.Palmieri, Co-Editor in Chief of CIFA News.
- Chronobioclimatology and broader chronomics: Legacies of Giorgio
PICCARDI.
F.Halberg, G.Cornélissen, P.Faraone, G.Katinas, S.Starburk, R.Tarquini, F.Perfetto,
G.Laffi, O.Schwartkopff
- From Biometeorology to Farmaco-Electrodynamics
V.Valenzi, M.L.Roseghini, U.Grieco, V.Caprioli, V.DeLisio, B.Messina .
- Book Review: R. M. Santilli "Foundation of Hadronic Chemistry
with application to New Clean Energies and Fuels" G.Quartieri
Kluwer Academic Publischer, Dordrecht, Boston - London 2001.
- Meeting Devoted to Giuliano Preparata: It is Possible to Make More in Science
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Editorial
Sabino Palmieri, Co-Editor in Chief of CIFA News.
An analysis of the global situation, based on a rational approach, may lead to the
pessimistic conclusion that humanity is heading towards an environmental catastrophe.
This sounds likely even if the relationship between society and nature is not fully cleared up
by science, as it is shown by the difficulty in reaching an international agreement on the
actions to be started to cope with the problem of global climate change. In other terms, the
link between social-economic development and the dynamic evolution of the human ecosystem
is not yet clear. Major concern is concentrated on the divergence among world population
increase and the limited resources available in the framework of the conceptual conflict of
production and consumption.
While the international debate is frequently dealing with the utopian subject of the
"sustainable development" and a number of possible technological solutions are offered
to cope with the so called "global warming", the advise of several scientists,
such as Gorshkov (1995), Grigoryev and Kondratyev (2001), are seldom taken into consideration:
they state that the more serious cause of a possible catastrophe is the violation of the
bio-geo-chemical cycles of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur. These cycles are already
in danger due to the dramatic exploitation of the resources of the Biosphere.
A further problem lies in the fact that interpretation of natural processes, in spite of
the bright progress achieved in the second half of ‘900, is difficult on account of the
insufficient knowledge about the environment time evolution. Science does not appear to be
able to provide reliable advice to the policy "decision makers".
From a retrospective analysis of climate history the perception emerges that major climatic
changes were to some extent linked to solar activity. This is characterized by cycles of periods
of 70-90, 200 and 2500 years, which seem to be correlated to the frequency of some climate
events (Anderson, 1991). A recent hypothesis is that variations in the intensity of cosmic
rays resulting from solar changes, may, through ionization processes in the atmosphere,
stimulate cloud formation (Marsh, 2001). The low atmospheric heating which occurred during
the last century coincided in fact with a period of decreased intensity of cosmic radiation
and recent investigation of satellite images reveals a correlation between the intensity of
cosmic radiation and the fraction of Earth covered by low clouds. It was also found that that
the solar magnetic field goes through cycles close to 100 k-years which may be linked to the
alternation of glacial and interglacial
periods affecting the earth remote past climate.
Bio-meteorology has a consolidated tradition in the study of the extraterrestrial forcing
impacts on life. Living organisms receive and elaborate in a mysterious way the environmental
signals, either those not altered by the atmosphere or the ones modulated by the physics and
dynamics of the earth system.
Inside human body, time dependent electromagnetic disturbances are very likely to resonate
with some particular frequencies and give rise to an appreciable biological response.
Let us hope that Bio-meteorology will accept the challenge of the serious problems
appearing at the beginning of the third millennium, from the planetary scale to the biological
micro-cosmos. On the solution of these problems the survival of humanity is very likely to depend.
References
Anderson R.Y.,1991, Solar Variability captured in Climatic and High Resolution Paleoclimatic
Records: A Geologic Perspective. In "The Sun in Time" University of Arizona Press,
Tucson.
Grigoryev Al.A., Kondratyev K.Ya., 2001, Ecodynamics and Geopolicy, Vol.2, St. Petersburg.
Gorshkov V.G., 1995, Physical and Biological Bases of Life Stability. VINITI Publ., Moscow.
Marsh, G.E., 2001, A Global Warming Primer. Priv. Com.
Sabino Palmieri e-mail: sabino.palmieri@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 49913479, cell.phone 349 1239502
fax: 06 4463158
Univ. "La Sapienza", Dep. of Physics
Piazzale A.Moro, 2; I-00185 Rome, Italy
Department of Phisics University of Rome "La Sapienza"
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Chronobioclimatology and broader chronomics: Legacies of Giorgio PICCARDI
Franz Halberg, Germaine Cornélissen, Piero Faraone, George Katinas.
Skipper Starburk, Roberto Tarquini,
Federico Perfetto, Giacomo Laffi, Othild Schwartkopff.
Summary.
Piccardi had many recorded contributions in science:
he worked on methods for measuring the ionization potential, studied the fractionation
of the "rare earth", but his major contribution relates to bioclimatology.
His physico-chemical Test E and Test D, during the diminishing phase of solar cycle,
revealed what was apparently a highly varying behavior,
but under periodical analysis they revealed the same periods.
Herein, we resolve some of the pertinent cycles by methods that became more readily
applicable in the computer era by focus on time structures and chronomes.
Our chrono-meta-analysis confirms Piccardi’s statements with the merit
of adding information on the uncertainties involved.
Studies on a nearly daily basis of microbial sectoring
(P. Faraone) as a possible gauge of mutation or other genetic change,
published since 1971, represent a completion in importance,
since they extend to bacteria , and thus to life,
what Piccardi demonstrated for physical chemistry.
Chrono-meta-analyses of microbial sectoring data provide a biological parallel
to Piccardi's physico-chemical results. Piccardi's physico-chemical monitoring
coupled with Faraone's microbiological monitoring could both be carried out under
conditions of shielding from (or compensating for) environmental agents such as
cosmic rays or geomagnetic activity at different latitudes and longitudes, to examine factors
involved including the classical ones, weather and climate.
The cycles involved may be a reflection not only or not necessarily of geomagnetic activity,
but also at least in part an effect of the displacement by the latter of galactic if not solar
cosmic rays.
Whatever the effect may be, it will be most interesting to carry out microbial
studies under conditions with known environmental factors (such as geomagnetic) and,
perhaps, also with deep underground to reduce the effect of cosmic rays.
This consideration also involves some limited experimental assays realized by Faraone,
with explorative aim, in Assergi, under the Gran Sasso mountain, in 1991.
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[See also materials about Halberg Chronobiology Center]
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From Biometeorology to Farmaco-Electrodynamics
V. Valenzi*, M. L. Roseghini*, U. Grieco*, V. Caprioli*, V. De Lisio** B. Messina *.
* Centro Studi di Biometeorologia, **ISPESL CB.
SUMMARY.
At the meeting in Rome on December 13, 2002, devoted to physical and biological studies by Giuliano Preparata, our Study-Team presented new interpretation of biometeorological phenomena based on QED - models that were developed by Preparata in period of 1980-90.
Several statistical studies conducted up to date are devoted to the primary and secondary
meteoropathies (human pathological meteosensitivities), which are very frequent.
Their investigation became more complicated due to various industrial air pollutions.
Pietracupa's Biometeorological Laboratory is doing several epidemiological studies in Molise Region for meteoropathies in aged people (about 80 years old). Collected data show that the rheumatic and respiratory diseases statistically significant increased in perturbed weather conditions (at low atmospheric pressure).
It’s still unknown what atmospheric factors are responsible for meteoropathies and how they act.
In our studies in Molise we observed, that higher concentration of negative ions is significantly correlated with health conditions. Skin electric parameters (SEP) are lower during the period of bad weather and on the contrary increase up to normal status during sunny cloudless weather.
Some drugs are usually able to treat positively the secondary rheumatic meteoropathies and improve the SEP.
In conclusion, SEP measuring may be considered as a routine indicative test meteoropathy. Several factors, such as drugs, weather, temperature are able to modify SEP, and to take care of all the meteoropathies and improve health conditions.
Several studies conducted in the last four years, gave us a positive answer, that clinical control, drugs, thermal and climate treatments are necessary to treat meteo-sensitivity pathologies.
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Book Review: R. M. Santilli "Foundation of Hadronic Chemistry with Applications to New Clean Energies and Fuels"
Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht-Boston-London, 2001
This book is the summa of the research work done by the Italian (Molisan)-American Physicist Ruggero Maria Santilli since 1967 up to recently when he has discovered, as described in the book, the new chemical species named “magnecoles” that allow to built new clean energies and fuels by mean of a new gas material named “magnegas”. For this work and the long scientific career Prof. Ruggero M. Santilli has received the nomination for the Nobel Price for Chemistry. The monograph includes 8 chapters.
Thanks to the above comprehensive research over two decades, Prof. Santilli's dream of new clean energies and fuels is today a reality as clearly described in the book. The duration of the research is an illustration of its complexity, because really new clean energies and fuels require really new effects indicated earlier at the particle, nuclear and molecular levels, all structurally beyond Quantum Mechanics.
Giuseppe Quartieri, IBR Vice President
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Meeting Devoted to Giuliano Preparata: It is Possible to Make More in Science
The meeting about Giuliano Preparata's contribution to physical and biological science was held on December 17, 2002, in Rome at University La Sapienza. Very interesting result was in developing and modifying some usual opinions actually diffusing in Scientist Community.
The investigation of "cold fusion" which mostly stopped in academic science after studies of Fleischmann and Pons, was continued in experiments made in several Italian physical laboratories such as Frascati, in Rome (ENEAlab.) and Pirelli lab. in Milano.
F.Scaramuzzi was the first physical scientist who successfully realized the Fleischmann & Pons experiment in Italy. Scaramuzzi recalled how Preparata practically and theoretically contributed into this important experimental work. Moratti and Fontana have confirmed the significance of this invention and especially its importance for some industrial utilization.
Several Industrial Groups from Milan and Prof. Rubbia (Nobel Prize in Physics) as ENEA's Commissioner, agreed in the opinion to value this important energy source .
Prof. F.Buccella and Prof. R.Alzetta admitted the importance of Preparata's studies especially for his interpretation of sub-nuclear interactions particularly presented in the book "Model of a Shell" (1990).
All participants who had scientific experimental contribution, felt the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from medical, chemical and physical fields, as Preparata always declared.
The quantum electro-dynamic coherence is appeared to be fundamental for well known interactions in living matter
because it allows existence of many physiological functions. The living matter is a specialized form of matter in general sense, and for this reason it follows the same rules of order.
Although today there are many pressures to realize the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration, there is also the paradoxical situation that some biophysicists believe that the physical theory of quantum field does not affect the biological science.
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