118 WHAT 18 LIFE 



4. The condition, under certain circumstances, 

 occurs following injury to cell structure of a cell or 

 cells of various living organisms, including man. 

 (According to foremost authorities, there are no 

 free ions in a cell; the trauma, however, having 

 reduced the cell material to the condition of a 

 solution in which undoubtedly hydrogen ions and 

 other ions are present, a critical concentration of 

 ions develops.) 



In this critical condition of theory, the problem 

 obviously is not one of the mean free path of a 

 particle in a medium, or of a molecule in a gas or 

 liquid. In this local condition of critical concen- 

 tration, there is no longer any distance or space 

 between molecules, but, the ionized atoms and mole- 

 cules being crowded together so that even atomic 

 domains overlap, there are only intra-atomic spaces. 



Most obviously, ionization means alteration of 

 orbital relations — 



(a) of number of orbital electrons; 



(6) of paths; 



(c) of energy conditions. 



Given the critical condition postulated — in no 

 sense a condition of equilibrium — the problem of 

 what adjustments will follow, has to do with the 

 constitution and the electronic orbits of the H2+-ion 

 and the other atoms that are concerned. 



