2011/04/15 by A. Widom, Widom, A., J. R. SWAIN +5
Engineering · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1104.3113
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Chemical reactions can be induced at a distance due to the propagation of electromagnetic signals during intermediate chemical stages. Although it is well known at optical frequencies, e.g. photosynthetic reactions, electromagnetic signals hold true for much lower frequencies. In E. coli bacteria such electromagnetic signals can be generated by electric transitions between energy levels describing electrons moving around DNA loops. The electromagnetic signals between different bacteria within a community is a "wireless" version of intercellular communication found in bacterial communities connected by "nanowires". The wireless broadcasts can in principle be of both the AM and FM variety due to the magnetic flux periodicity in electron energy spectra in bacterial DNA orbital motions.