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reality previously considered irreconcilably opposite, i.e., science and

culture, matter and mind, and life and nonlife (see row 4 in Table 2.4), all

of which share water as a common material basis.

One of the main objectives of this book is to present the empirical and

theoretical evidences to support the validity of Statements (2.27)–(2.31),

Table 2.4, and the suggestion that the interior of the living cell

(Figure 2.12) is filled with what is here called the LPWSs [1, 2, 5], also

called the 4PTN, which is invisible to most methods of observations now

available but determines the behavior of the living cell (see the right panel

in Figure 2.11) nevertheless, just as the quantum vacuum is “invisible” in

quantum field theory but is thought to contain “fleeting electromagnetic

waves and particles that pop into and out of existence” [120].

2.15 The Equilibrium and Dissipative Structures of Water

Snowflakes (Figure 2.13(a)) are examples of Prigogine’s equilibrium

structures, since no free energy dissipation is required for their existence,

unlike the flame of a candle which requires dissipation of free energy into

heat and hence is a dissipative structure (Section 2.6). A snowflake con­

sists of about 10^18 molecules [506] arranged in space as hexagons as dic­

tated by the hydrogen bonding interactions among the tetrahedral water

(a) (b)

Figure 2.12 (a) The cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. Actin filaments are colored red,

microtubules composed of beta tubulin are colored green, and the nuclei are in blue.

Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoskeleton on July 6, 2016.

(b) Metastasizing cervical cancer cell. Reproduced from Scientific American 314 (1): 17.

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