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particles in space and time, i.e., “kinematics” vs. “dynamics”. Physicists

do not agree on the meaning of these two terms, but the definitions given

by Lombardi [218] seems widely accepted:

The term kinematics has its origin in the Greek word kinesis, which

means motion. Kinematics is the study of motion without regard for

the cause.... On the other hand, dynamics, from the Greek dynamis

(power), is the study of the causes of motion.... (3.45)

For example, the study of the movement of stars in the sky recorded

and analyzed by ancient astronomers with the naked eye would belong

to kinematics; in contrast, the study of motions of objects as caused

by the gravitational force using Newton’s laws of motions belong to

“dynamics”.

Since what is listed in Table 3.18 is the specification of the space–time

coordination between coupled particles without describing the underlying

causative forces (also called “mechanisms”), the study of the listed pro-

cesses would belong to kinematics. Thus, regardless of which of the com-

peting viewpoints will turn out to be correct, namely (e– → j–) (as claimed

by non-chemiosmosis theoreticians [8, 161, 176, 210] or (e– → H+) + (H+

→ j–) (as claimed by the chemiosmosis proponents [138, 141], their stud-

ies belong to kinematics (Section 3.3.1) and not to dynamics, unless and

until their theorizing extends to include the mechanism of force generation

responsible for the coupled charge fluxes, e.g., the conformon mechanism

shown in Figure 3.30.

One of the key differences between the chemiosmotic and the confor-

mon models (see Figure 3.34) is precisely that the former does not and the

latter does propose an enzymologically realistic the mechanism of the

force generation responsible for the coupling of the various charge fluxes

in mitochondria that are specified in Table 3.18:

(1) All of the molecular interactions listed in Table 3.18 are catalyzed by

enzymes.

(2) Enzymes undergo conformational changes as they catalyze chemical

reactions involving electron-, proton-, and/or phosphoron-transfer

processes.

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