Dr. Sotina made contributions to various areas of physics and applied mathematics, such as a theory of hydrodynamics stability, a theory of Newtonian potential, and a theory of multiphase media. Dr. Sotina is an author of over 100 scientific articles and 2 books.
Having interest in a study of the behavior of living matter from physics viewpoint, Nina Sotina pointed out that Quantum Mechanics does not provide an adequate description of behavior of biomoleculars in living substance and pre-life organizations. Indeed one of the peculiarities of biological chemistry is that in a living organism, as opposed to a regular chemical system, molecules are built under control of enzymes. This process does not exhibit any molecular chaos! On the contrary, thе biomolecules act as the well-tuned mechanisms, which disagree with a concept of a molecule as a quantum system that is governed by probabilistic laws of Quantum Mechanics. The question arises: either the living world cannot be understood by the traditional scientific methods at all or one can do it by introduction of a new theory with additional forces and fields?
If we are to introduce any previously unknown forces (an unknown field) to the quantum mechanics, we should preserve the Schrödinger equation – possibly interpreting it differently though. It is proved that the Schrödinger equation can be derived from the deterministic laws of mechanics. In this case the Schrödinger equation is a necessary condition of a stable motion of a material system, and the forces caused by the structures, emerging in the physical vacuum with the motion of elementary particles, stabilize this motion. For details see Sotina’s paper “Structures in the physical vacuum” in the book:
LIFE and MIND—In Search of the Physical Basis,. MISAHA/Trafford Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1–4251–1090–8. (Edited by Savely Savva ), pp.211-237. http://www.trafford.com/06-2849 )
