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THE explanation of muscle contraction by McClare1,2 is at variance with the current tenets of molecular spectroscopy. Lifetime measurements have shown that, in most cases, the excimer has a shorter half-life than that of the parent monomer3. In pyrene, the example quoted by McClare, the half-life (at room temperature) of the monomer is 31 × 10−8 s, while that of the excimer is only 4.4 × 10−8 s.
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NAQVI, K. A Critique of McClare's Quantum Mechanical Muscle Model. Nature 242, 473 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242473a0
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