Abstract
The experimental data represented in the bibliography are theoretically analyzed to construct an adequate model for dynamics of an open nonequilibrium living system. It is shown that the viable microorganisms are capable of forming the fractal structure, whose dimensionality is certainly non-integral. In addition, we have attempted to provide a generalized description of the properties of living and nonliving matter (in the addition to that described in work [1]). Relevant published data were used to demonstrate a fractal structure of the space in the vicinity of centrally gravitating bodies with satellites revolving around them along closed trajectories and serving as a kind of testers of the neighboring space. A local violation of its discontinuity is likely to be a necessary (yet not sufficient!) dynamic characteristic of the spatiotemporal continuum for self-organization of molecules into a living, i.e., self-replicating, system.
Highlights
Over 50 years ago, two Moscow microbiologists, V.A
Independently from one another discovered a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, the ability of organotrophic microbial E. coli cells after a certain pretreatment to reproduce in the saline solutions completely deprived of any organic substances
As showed authors [12], the cell of microorganisms under these conditions they do not lose the ability to be multiplied during repeated multiplication in the distilled water—which completely excludes the possibility of use by microorganisms the residual spare substances of
Summary
Over 50 years ago, two Moscow microbiologists, V.A. Elin and V.O. Of the composition of this saline solution (be it physiological solution or phosphate buffer) and the initial concentration of viable cells (103 - 105 cm–3), all populations over 1 - 2 days of incubation at 37 ̊C reached the same limit concentration of about 106 cm–3 and retained a long-term viability in this state without any access to organics Results of these experiments were published in the journal Mikrobiologiya (Microbiology) [2] [3]. Our research team by a lucky confluence of circumstances discovered an analogous phenomenon of reproduction of an organotrophic microorganism, E. coli, under even more stringent conditions, in tetradistilled water These experiments are described in [4]-[10] and in monograph [11].
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