What is Life?

Taking his cue from Erwin Schroedinger's book of the same title, Chris explores the origins and mechanisms of living systems based on a lifetime of research starting from molecular physical chemistry. He hypothesises that 'the key processes in living systems involve transfer of energy at infrared frequencies', and that this energy exchange is the life force. He notes that living creatures are hotter than their surroundings, and that this enables them to borrow energy, which is created and sustained by infrared radiation. As a specialist in the health effects of ionising radiation, he sees this as a principal cause of increased cancer incidence. He also gives some indication of the possibility of curing cancer through hyperthermia, that is heating up the tumour so as to cause 'more signals from the more remote tissue in the normal cell community without changing the signal residents from the tumour community.' This leads him to speculate that treatment using selected frequencies might be successful. All this will be of particular interest to biologists working on health issues.