The idea of editing this book was born in the winter of 1988/1989.
Christian Endler was organizing the workshop 'Wasser und Information'
(water and information) in Austria [1], and Jürgen Schulte was working
on a publication of his results on atomic cluster stabilities and
long-range electromagnetic interaction in atomic clusters. It was Franz
Moser from the Technical University of Graz who brought these two
together. After a talk that Moser had given in Bremen, Schulte explained
to hirn his ideas about clusters and long range interaction, and his
concern about reliable theories and experiments in research on ultra
high dilutions (UHD) and homoeopathy. He was suggested to be a speaker
at the Austrian workshop. Reviewing the contributions of this workshop
and the current literature on UHD and homoeopathy, especially the PhD
thesis by Giesela King [2] and the excellent survey by Marco Righetti
[3], we decided to work on a book in order to critically encou- rage
more scientists to work and publish in this field with a high scientific
standard. What we had in mind was a useful contribution to the goal to
lift research on UHD and homoeo- pathy to an internationally acceptable
scientific standard, to encourage international scien- tists to work in
this area and to establish UHD and homoeopathy in academic science.
Delayed by our individual academic careers in our specific fields, and
delayed by lack of funds it took us about four years to finish this
book.
