Living Rainbow H2o

By: Mae-wan Ho

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This book is a unique synthesis of the latest findings in the quantum physics and chemistry of water that will tell you why it is so remarkably fit for life. It offers a novel panoramic perspective of cell biology based on water as "means, medium, and message" of life.This book is a sequel to The Rainbow and The Worm, The Physics of Organisms, which has remained in a class of its own for nearly 20 years since the publication of the first edition. Living Rainbow H2O continues the fascinating journey in the author's quest for the meaning of life, in science and beyond. Like The Rainbow and The Worm, the present book will appeal to readers in the arts and humanities as well as scientists; not least because the author herself is an occasional artist and poet. Great care has been taken to explain terms and concepts for the benefit of the general reader. At the same time, sufficient scientific details are provided in text boxes for the advanced reader and researcher without interrupting the main story.

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This book is a delightful read for laypersons. It surveys some of the outstanding, sometimes considered anomalous properties of water and aqueous solutions. The style is consistently light, as it hops from one topic to another with a seemingly dance-like rhythm to it. -- Arieh Ben-Naim "Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel"

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Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
How to Read this Book	p. xix
Rainbow Dancing in the Worm	p. 1
Love of the Rainbow Worm	p. 1
The Quantum Jazz Dancer	p. 3
Intercommunication is the Key	p. 4
Water is the Means, Medium, and Message	p. 5
Weird and Wonderful Water	p. 7
Strangely Fit for Life	p. 7
Water Loves Bonding	p. 9
Huge Diversity of Supramolecular Structures	p. 10
Water, Water in Every Guise	p. 11
Cooperative Coherent Water	p. 15
Cooperativity through Hydrogen Bonds	p. 15
Resonant Energy Transfer through Hydrogen-bonded Networks	p. 17
Two-state Water	p. 18
The Chaplin Model	p. 19
Model Fits Well with the Data	p. 22
Water Quasicrystals and the Golden Mean	p. 23
Two-state Model Confirmed	p. 25
Water and Colloid Crystals: The New Age of Alchemy	p. 29
Colloid Crystal Diversity Defies Description	p. 29
The New Age of Alchemy in Water	p. 30
Can Like Charges Attract?	p. 33
Colloid Quasicrystals Self-assemble in Water	p. 34
Quantum Coherent Water	p. 39
Quantum Effects	p. 39
What is Quantum Coherence?	p. 40
Quantum Coherence from NMR	p. 41
Quantum Magnetic Signatures	p. 45
Quantum Coherence in Symphonic Structures	p. 48
QED Water I	p. 51
Coupling Matter to Electromagnetic Field	p. 51
QED of Condensed Matter	p. 51
Coherent Water as a Source of Almost-free Electrons	p. 54
Burning Water	p. 55
Quantum Coherent Water and Life	p. 58
QED Water II: Non-thermal EMF Effects	p. 61
Debate over Non-thermal EMF Effects	p. 61
The "Thermal Threshold" Fallacy	p. 62
Specificity of Non-thermal Effects	p. 63
Ion Cyclotron Resonance	p. 64
Ion Cyclotron Resonance for Amino Acids	p. 65
QED Explanation Required	p. 66
How Ion Cyclotron Resonance Could be Explained	p. 66
QED Water III: Homeopathy	p. 71
Homeopathy and the Memory of Water	p. 71
DNA Emits EM Signals at High Dilution	p. 72
DNA Sequence Recreated from Its EM Signature in Pure Water	p. 74
Bringing Bacterium to Life from Its DNA Signals?	p. 75
DNA EM Signals from Earth's Field NMR	p. 76
QED and Homeopathy	p. 77
Quantum Biology and Consciousness Arriving	p. 79
Dancing with Ions	p. 83
Love of Water	p. 83
Acid and Base	p. 83
The Importance of Ions	p. 85
To Bond or Not to Bond	p. 86
The Jumping Bond	p. 86
Dancing with Multiple Partners	p. 88
Dancing with Proteins	p. 93
The Importance of Proteins	p. 93
The Importance of Enzymes	p. 95
Supercool Hydration water	p. 96
More Hydration Shells Revealed	p. 98
Ferroelectric Hydration Water	p. 100
Quantum Dance of Proteins	p. 101
Dancing with DNA	p. 105
Glorious DNA	p. 105
Wetting DNA	p. 107
Water Electrifies DNA	p. 108
Quantum Chemistry and DNA Conductance	p. 109
DNA Magnetism	p. 113
Water at Solid Interfaces	p. 115
Life at the Interface	p. 115
Interfacial Water in the Ideal	p. 115
Probing the Interface Directly	p. 117
Water Forms Massive Exclusion Zones	p. 120
Millions of Layers Thick	p. 123
More Revelations	p. 123
Light Charges Up Water, QED	p. 125
Interfacial Water is Liquid Crystalline Water	p. 127
Of Colloid Crystals and Protein Folding	p. 127
Water Electric	p. 131
Hopping Down a Daisy Chain	p. 131
Charging Up the Batteries of Life	p. 132
Proton Conduction Along Biological Membranes	p. 133
Nanotubes, Water Transport, and Proton Wires	p. 135
Water + Air = Life	p. 139
Special Chemistry	p. 139
Origin of Life at Air-Water Interfaces	p. 141
Recreating Life in the Lab	p. 142
Water Meets Air	p. 147
Walking on Water	p. 147
Ions at the Interface	p. 149
Ion-specific Effects	p. 150
Water Meets Membranes	p. 157
Membranes: the Vital Interface	p. 157
Biological Membranes	p. 159
Wetting Membranes	p. 161
Ca²⁺ Dehydrates Phosphate Groups	p. 166
The Rainbow Ensemble	p. 169
How Proteins and Ions Do Water's Quantum Jazz	p. 169
Salt Out If You Must	p. 169
Support for the Law of Matching Water Affinities	p. 172
Why Quantum Jazz is Possible	p. 173
The Big Mystery Remains	p. 176
Water's Effortless Action through Ions	p. 176
Water in Confined Spaces	p. 178
Wiggins' Theory	p. 179
Making ATP Without Enzymes	p. 180
Enzyme Action Depends on Two-state Water	p. 181
True Portrait of the Cell	p. 185
What's Wrong with Our Picture of the Cell?	p. 185
Protoplasm vs Cell	p. 185
From Proto-life to Cell and Protoplasm	p. 187
The Skeleton in the Cell	p. 190
The Cytoskeleton in all Cells	p. 192
Metabolic Channelling in the Cytomatrix	p. 196
Electromagnetic Signalling and Assembly of Metabolons	p. 197
The Fractal Cell	p. 198
Water in Nanospace	p. 203
Structured Water at £1.50 a Bottle	p. 203
First Sighting of Structured Water	p. 204
The Devil in Small Nanotubes	p. 205
Defining Phases and Structures under Confinement	p. 207
Phase Diagram of Confined Water	p. 207
A Diversity of Liquid Crystalline Structures	p. 208
Water in Extended Nanospace	p. 209
Reverse Micelles for "Superactivity"	p. 211
Water Dynamics in Reverse Micelles	p. 214
Protein and Water in Nanospace	p. 217
Water Nanotubes, Collagen, Acupuncture, and Energy Medicine	p. 217
First Calculations	p. 219
Fast Proton Exchange Between All Structured Water	p. 221
Phase Transitions of Water Structure	p. 222
Protein's Secret Water Music in Nanospace	p. 223
More Like Nanospaces in a Living Cell and More Precise Measurements	p. 223
A Diversity of Correlated Protein-Water Dynamics	p. 226
Crystallographic Structures are Misleading	p. 227
Implications for Living Cells and Recapitulation	p. 228
Fire and Water	p. 233
Water and Redox Chemistry of Life	p. 233
Oxygen from Water Pivotal for Life on Earth	p. 235
Water Crisis	p. 237
Oxygen and the Evolution of Complex Life Forms	p. 239
Oxygen is Stable, Abundant, and Fit for Life	p. 240
Oxygen in Action, Past and Present	p. 240
Oxygen and the Complexity of the Metabolic Network	p. 242
Water Fuels the Dynamo of Life	p. 245
Water and Energy Metabolism	p. 245
Respiration	p. 245
Photosynthesis	p. 249
Electronic Induction Animates Life	p. 257
Sweeping Away Old and New Cobwebs	p. 257
What's Really Responsible for the Membrane Potential	p. 257
The Membrane Theory	p. 259
Potassium Bound to the Cytoplasm	p. 260
Potassium Bound Selectively Inside the Cell	p. 261
Ling's Association-Induction Hypothesis	p. 263
The Unit Protoplasm	p. 266
Ling's Hypothesis and the Liquid Crystalline Cell	p. 267
POM and the Exclusion of Solutes	p. 270
Support for the Liquid Crystalline Cell and Ling's AI Hypothesis	p. 271
Ling's AI Hypothesis in Contemporary Cell Biology	p. 274
Electronic Induction Animates the Cell	p. 277
The New Cell Biology	p. 278
Glossary	p. 283
References	p. 301
Author Index	p. 321
Subject Index	p. 325
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