physarum
IB-physarum-standingwave-refuted
CLAIM (refuted): Physarum holds its body-wide memory 'aloft' via a single, globally phase-locked STANDING WAVE that keeps the imprint statically fixed.
Observed quantities
refuted 0-3 in the only directly-testable system
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Primary source
- Alim et al. 2013, PNAS — random-network peristalsis (measured the real, non-global dynamics)
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Boundary of this block
This is a vivid HYPOTHESIS-under-test (OMPU/Den standing-wave framing, refined), NOT a published claim. It is sourced to the measurement paper that characterized the real (non-global) dynamics and is refuted by IB-physarum-intermittency. Kept on record, not deleted.
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Connections
Incoming
- relates from In Physarum a stimulus self-propagates ADVECTIVELY on the cytoplasmic shuttle-streaming flow at 1-20 um/s, in the laminar regime (Reynolds number ~0.0008) — a fully CLASSICAL transport mechanism, no quantum effects required. the real mechanism is organized advective flow, not a static global lock
- refutes from In the only directly-testable system (Physarum), body-wide contraction FAILS to globally coordinate: coordination is intermittent and slowly-modulating — wave direction reverses and amplitude drifts — which REFUTES the global standing wave. measured intermittency contradicts a permanently phase-locked global wave