A type of Computer can be formed from capillaries called "Kriskes Computer Theory"

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Abstract

This author had previously proposed that plants can cool without doing work. There is no pump or classical mechanical mechanism needed for a plant to raise water above the ground or to cool it's local environment. The cooling power of plants had been previously described by the transportation theory. When this author's theory was presented, another group at MIT realized that they had seen a similar mechanism in drying and proposed the photo molecular theory. The power of my theory is that it is based on the "physics of surfaces" in that water adheres to the surface of a capillary with a definite binding energy and that binding energy has been measured and can be easily experimented with using spectrometers. When a photon strikes the water in the capillary, the band gap is the binding energy of the water molecule to the cell surface. The chain of water molecules moves up the column in a caterpillar like walk from the striking of the photon. The binding energy of the water is on the order of the binding of the hydrogen bond to oxygen in the water. The plant has a built in computational device as this mechanism is inherently digital acting as a "state machine" in that it can go in one direction in the "Turing" model. It's been previously noted that in the solubility of water in plants, ions can be transported up and down the water column based on the concentration of the ions, as the ions try to achieve equilibrium as the cells that make up surface of the capillary tube excrete and absorb ions from the stream. This motion of solubility allows the "State Machine" to act as a complete "Turing Machine" as the "Cursor" can go in both directions and "Recursive Functions" can be realized.

Presenters

  • RICHARD M KRISKE

    University of Minnesota

Authors

  • RICHARD M KRISKE

    University of Minnesota