INTRODUCTION BY DR. EUGENE MALLOVE	7
AUTHORS' PREFACE	16
PART 1 - Aetherometric physical and biophysical foundations
1.  Continua, fields and manifolds: fundamental problems of a Physical Theory of Biological Systems and Processes
Invariance of the failed syntheses of holism and reductionism	21
The basic physical and mathematical problem of the definition of a continuum	24
The aetherometric solution to the definition of energy continua	26
Aetherometric phase energy, phase space and higher order simultaneity	27
Matter and Aether: Space and Time as distinct manifolds and energy properties	28
Irreversibility of Time: the arrow of Time is not the arrow of entropy	31
Role of Simultaneity: every energy flux produces a duration in universal Time	32
Brief examination of field concepts, in Physics and Biology	34
2.  Aetherometric system dynamics (and evaluation of the thermodynamical, molecular genetic and biochemical approaches to living systems)
Biological holism vs Physical reductionism at the birth of molecular biology	40
Reversible and nonreversible processes: isolated and imperfectly closed systems and entropy of a system	41
An energetic approach to entropy and ideal negentropy	44
Characteristic of living systems: active energy extraction and reverse potential of energy flow; closed and open systems	49
The Carnot engine, the steam engine and latent heat: the internal energy function ΔU, and enthalpy of a system and of a reaction	53
The total internal energy function ET and the free energy of a system	62
The energy forms composing the internal energy of a system	65
Open and closed systems: order and internal energy; characteristic of living systems	74
The real physical senses of entropy	88
The internal and vital power functions of living systems	98
Biological machines as systems of double articulation	104
3.  Speciation, transformation and biopoiesis
3.1  A Lamarckian-Nietzschean critique of evolutionism, old and new
The concept of evolution as an explanation for speciation	107
Foundations of Darwinian Evolutionism	110
The historical nature of the civilized myth of a natural struggle for existence	112
The myth that all biological variation is random: relative and absolute chances	115
Breaking down the central dogma of molecular genetics: against neo-Darwinism	120
Is cancer the Lamarckian adaptation of an 'amoeboid-becoming'?	122
Anomalous mutagenesis and the attack on neo-evolutionism: the return of the Chevalier de Lamarck (neo-Lamarckism)	127
Post-adaptive mutagenic processes	131
3.2  The problems of the origins of Life
Biopoiesis of protobionts: the protein microspheres of S. Fox	136
Autocatalytic properties of RNA	141
How did a molecular system of double articulation emerge?	144
Rhizospheric involution and creative evolution	147
The ultimate perspective on biopoiesis: the end of the dogmatic era	149
PART 2 - Aetherometric biophysics of cellular and molecular systems
4.  Aetherometric bioenergetics and molecular biophysics
Energetic specificity or nonspecificity of the living: biological roles of massbound charges, light and heat	152
Molecular biology and allosteric interactions:     A.  Noncovalent bonds as a biological specialization     B.  Stereoscopic properties of proteins     C.  Biological specificity of latent heat in noncovalent bonds	153
Types and aetherometric structure of noncovalent bonds	156
Activation energy in covalent and noncovalent reactions, and underlying energy fields	161
Immanent fields and biological order as phase energy processes: role of latent heat	163
Is there a biological specificity for electric energy?	165
Animal electricity and the conflict with mechanism	167
The vitalism vs mechanicism conflict	169
Autopoietic machines: micro-functionalist problems with the concept and its aetherometric function	172
Mechanism vs vitalism: an aetherometric approach to the monist machinic solution	176
5.  Biological affinity, cellular and molecular, of aether energy
W. Reich's discovery of ORgone energy and our discovery of the ambipolar radiation spectrum, and its two subspectra	181
Fundamental physical roles and byproducts of ambipolar radiation: blackbody photons and latent heat	186
Biological roles of ambipolar energy and depolarization in the action potential	188
Biological affinity and specificity of massfree energy	191
6.  Aetherometric theory of the pH scale     and the cycles of water and hydrogen formation and dissociation
The fundamental role of water in Life	194
The pH scale of acid-base reaction processes	196
Proton and electron chemistries: acid-base and redox reactions; the Nernst equation	200
Aetherometric treatment of the Nernst equation	204
Aetherometric treatment of the pH and pOH scales	206
The aetherometric pe- scale	208
Aetherometric cycles for the complete equilibrium dissociation of H2O and H2	211
7.  The fine structure, geometry and molecular dynamics of water
Ambipolar radiation and the role of noncovalent bonds in water	224
The fine structure and geometry of the water molecule	227
Ambipolar resonances of water and rotational modes	230
Ambipolar energy, latent heat and "chemical energy"	238
8.  Aether bioenergetics of capture, storage and metabolism
Central metabolic role of ATP	240
The latent heat of ATP is responsible for its exergonic hydrolysis	241
Latent heat draw: reverse potential of energy flow and protein self-assembly	242
Oxygen, ambipolar radiation and the alpha/beta states of metabolism	244
The origin of eukaryotic cells and the role of oxygen	246
What is missing in the respiratory chain	249
Aetherometric model of the respiratory chain	255
Biological circuits of ordinary electricity and thermal or photobiological fields in the context of the new system dynamics	262
ATP-driven dark photosynthesis and futile metabolic cycles	264
Hemoglobin as a thermal radiator that converts captured ambipolar radiation (antenna function)	266
The universality of the protoporphyrin ring IX asX a biological ambipolar antenna and an electromagnetic pigment	269
9.  The specificity of the living and biopoiesis of a double articulation:     role of the Aether
The monist concept of desiring machines and their scopes	271
Micro and macro, molecular and molar, and the specificity of organic machines	280
Molecular event of the biological double articulation: cellular or precellular?	289
Is chromatin DNA an evolved clue to the biopoietic emergence of a system of RNA-protein articulation?	291
Thermal exhalpy and stability of living systems	294
The myth of mitogenic radiation	297
Aetherometric capture, conversion and emission functions of chromatin-DNA	299
Ambipolar radiation capture and thermal re-radiation by DNA	302
EPILOGUE	305
REFERENCES	310
PLATES	323
INDEX	413
POSTSCRIPT: The untimely death of Dr. Eugene Mallove	449