Comment concerning 'Do electromagnetic fields interact with electrons in Na,K-ATPase?' (Bioelectromagnetics 26:677-683 (2005)).

摘要

Blank 2005 attempts to reconcile some of his previous experimental results, which he reports show effects of weak ELF electromagnetic fields on Na,K-ATPase activity, "with current ideas in biology." His argument, however, has fatal and very obvious weaknesses. The first is the validity of his original assumptions. Blank postulates that electrons exist "with picosecond lifetimes moving at great velocities" in membranes and proteins. In justification he cites Fecko et al. 2003 on "flickering in H-bonded networks which indicate that protons regularly move between oxygens." Apart from the obvious nonsequitur in this line of reasoning, the study that he cites is about a totally unrelated subject, fluctuations in the hydrogen bond network in liquid water. The dynamics of electrons in matter is a complex subject, and it will not do to conjure up a theory based on a misreading of a study on an unrelated subject.