Science & Homeopathy: Part-2 The Physics & Chemistry Of High-dilutions

It is time for physicians and biologists to realise that quantum physics applies at all scales. This will also bid fair to giving homeopathy its therapeutic credentials, as a safe, rational medical approach for healing people.

- Dr Marc Henry

One of the first substances that benefits from a full quantum treatment including the vacuum is liquid water. Details have been published elsewhere [9, 16] and only conclusions will be reported here. The main result is that hydrogen bonding between water molecules should be considered as coherent van der Waals bonding. Coherent, in this context, means that water molecules and vacuum become welded together through an internal electromagnetic field borrowed from the vacuum and trapped in so-called ‘coherence domains.’

The role of this internal electromagnetic field is to perform virtual excitations of water molecules towards a Rydberg level localised on oxygen atoms lying about 0.5 eV below their ionisation threshold [ca. 12.6 eV]. As always in quantum field approaches, all the possible paths leading to this localised level should be taken into account. This means direct excitation from the ground state as well as in indirect transitions through other discrete levels [summation] as well as any energy level located in the continuum [integral]. Consequently, water properties are ruled by oscillator strengths involving the whole photonic excitation spectrum [0-200 eV], and not by a single HOMO-LUMO excitation, or a single ionisation potential.