Newsgroup: it.scienza.biologia
Titolo: Delitto perfetto

Puo' capitare a tutti di volersi sbarazzare di qualcuno: una suocera
invadente, il venditore porta a porta dell'aspirapolvere Folletto,
quel coglione che corteggia la ragazza che ci piace, il vigile urbano
inflessibile, il Ministro delle Finanze e cosi' via.
Purtroppo l'omicidio e' considerato un atto disdicevole e ne possono
derivare incresciose conseguenze.
Servirebbe un sistema per eliminare le persone sgradevoli senza
destare sospetti. 
Ebbene oggi il modo c'e': la musica del citocromo C.
Leggete insieme a me:
From New Scientist magazine, vol 142 issue 1927, 28/05/1994, page 10
 
GOOD VIBRATIONS GIVE PLANTS EXCITATIONS
Eccentric gardeners who sing to their plants may not be altogether
mad, says Joel Sternheimer, a French physicist and musician.
Sternheimer writes melodies that allegedly help plants grow, and has
recently applied for an international patent covering his method of
music making. The tunes are not random melodies: he chooses each note
to correspond to an amino acid in a protein, and the full tune
corresponds to an entire protein. Sternheimer claims that when plants
'hear' the appropriate tune, they produce more of that protein. He
also writes tunes that inhibit the synthesis of proteins. 
He claims to be able, using simple physics, to translate into audible
vibrations of music the quantum vibrations that occur at the molecular
level as a protein is being assembled from its constituent amino
acids. 'Each musical note is a multiple of original frequencies that
occur when amino acids join the protein chain,' explains Sternheimer. 
Playing the tune stimulates synthesis of its protein. 'The length of a
note corresponds to the real time it takes for each amino acid to come
after the next,' says Sternheimer, who studied quantum physics and
mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey. 
His patent includes melodies for cytochrome oxidase and cytochrome C,
two proteins involved in respiration, troponin C, which regulates
calcium uptake in muscles, and the tune for inhibiting chalcone
synthase, an enzyme involved in making plant pigments. 
Sternheimer claims that in experiments, tomatoes exposed to his tunes
grew two-and-a-half times as big as controls. Some were sweeter as
well, he says. The tunes played included those for three tomato growth
promoters, cytochrome C, and for thaumatin, a flavouring compound.
'Six molecules were being played to the tomatoes for a total of three
minutes a day,' he says. 
He also claims to have stopped an infection of the tomatoes with a
mosaic virus by playing tunes that inhibited enzymes vital to the
virus. 
The tunes are very short, he says, and need only be played once. The
one for cytochrome C, for example, lasts just 29 seconds. 'On average,
you get four amino acids played per second,' he says. 
Sternheimer warns scoffers to be careful tinkering with the tunes
because they can affect people as well. 'Don't ask a musician to play
them,' he says. 'You must be very careful.' Sternheimer says that one
of his musicians had difficulty breathing after playing the tune for
cytochrome C too often. 
Sternheimer says that support for his methods is spreading 'by word of
mouth'. One admirer, he says, is a leading Swiss industrialist who
paid for the patent to be filed. The patent covers applications in
agriculture, health care and the textiles industry. 
Andy Coghlan
...... 
 
From New Scientist magazine, vol 143 issue 1937, 06/08/1994, page 50 
Letters
QUANTUM VIBRATIONS
My aim has not been to compose music for plants (This Week, 28 May).
It stems from a work in theoretical physics, which predicts the
existence of generalised quantum waves travelling through scale,
thereby connecting different quantised scales of a physical system;
and allows as an example the calculation of sets of frequencies
associated with protein synthesis. 
One of the predicted scale ranges, being close to Avogadro's number,
provides a simple and ethical way to check the correctness of the
corresponding equation: namely, that the transposition of those
frequencies from the predicted range (thus to the audible range
approximately), should be able, by scale resonance, to stimulate - or
inhibit, using phase opposition - the corresponding protein synthesis.
Experiments on plants have been devised for this reason, with success,
and are currently being repeated by a Swiss industrialist who is not
an 'admirer' but himself an independent researcher, and contributes
for this reason to the coast of the patents. Useful applications
include health, since as human beings do in addition possess ears,
this provides a way to heal by directly acting on a desired protein
synthesis in a way then controllable by the person, therefore
respecting human rights. 
Joel Sternheimer
Reseau Associatif de Chercheurs Independants
1 rue Descartes
75005 Paris, France

mad, says Joel Sternheimer, a French physicist and musician.
Mi sa tanto di bufala.

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 GOOD VIBRATIONS GIVE PLANTS EXCITATIONS
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ROTFL
Questa pare che l'illustre   scienziato l'abbia scoperta dopo   che le
"good  vibrations"  gli  hanno  causato  un'inconsueta attivazione del
p-Cell growth factor e dopo un  simile evento straordinario ha pensato
bene  di  vedere  se   anche le  piante   sono suscettibili  a  simili
"exitations".
Un Carlo volgare.
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