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sentences, etc., so atoms can join to molecules, molecules to or- 

 ganelles, organelles to cells, etc., every level of organization having 

 a new meaning of its own and offering exciting vistas and possi- 

 bilities. Living matter seems to be a system of water and organic 

 matter, which forms one single inseparable unit, a system, as the 

 cogwheels do in a watch. 



Water is not only the mater, mother, it is also the matrix of life, 

 and biology may have been unsuccessful in understanding the:" 

 most basic functions because it focused its attention only on the; 

 particulate matter, separating it from its two matrices, water and| 

 the electromagnetic field. 



One critical remark may be added to the contents of the last 

 two chapters: there is no conclusive evidence yet available to prove 

 that the long-lived excitations, observed in ice, were actually trip- 

 lets and not some other unexpected forms of excitation. Triplets 

 are not the only known long-lived excitations, as witnessed by the 

 luminous ciphers on the dial of a wrist watch. The delayed light 

 emissions, in this case, belong to the so-called "crystal phosphors." 

 In crystals, the orbitals of single atoms and molecules may fuse to 

 continuous bands and if electrons are excited to a higher energy 

 band they may be trapped there and drop back to the ground level 

 with a delay, emitting their excess energy in the form of protons. 

 Long-lived excitations are also given by the so-called "gelatin 

 phosphors" which can be prepared by drying a fluorescent dye in 

 the presence of a protein, like gelatin. Should the long-lived exci- 

 tations, described in the last two chapters, turn out not to be a 

 triplet excitation, but some other exceptional form of E* this 

 would alter little the validity of the essential conclusion, that 

 within water structures electronic excitation may assume an un- 

 usual long-lived form which might be of prime import for bio- 

 logical energy transmissions. 



The evidence available at present strongly pleads for the as- 

 sumption that the observed excitations were triplets which also 

 strengthens the conclusion, arrived at in the second chapter of this 



