Screen LibraryLiving rainbow H2O /
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 seque...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8418#t=toc |
| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xx,330pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789814390903 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | P33 |
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ch. 1. Rainbow dancing in the worm. Love of the Rainbow Worm. The quantum jazz dancer. Intercommunication is the key. Water is the means, medium, and message -- ch. 2. Weird and wonderful water. Strangely fit for life. Water loves bonding. Huge diversity of supramolecular structures. Water, water in every guise -- ch. 3. Cooperative coherent water. Cooperativity through hydrogen bonds. Resonant energy transfer through hydrogen-bonded networks. Two-state water. The Chaplin model. Model fits well with the data. Water quasicrystals and the golden mean. Two-state model confirmed -- ch. 4. Water and colloid crystals: the new age of alchemy. Colloid crystal diversity defies description. The new age of alchemy in water. Can like charges attract? Colloid quasicrystals self-assemble in water -- ch. 5. Quantum coherent water. Quantum effects. What is quantum coherence? Quantum coherence from NMR. Quantum magnetic signatures. Quantum coherence in symphonic structures -- ch. 6. QED water I. Coupling matter to electromagnetic field. QED of condensed matter. Coherent water as a source of almost-free electrons. Burning water. Quantum coherent water and life -- ch. 7. QED water II: non-thermal EMF effects. Debate over non-thermal EMF effects. The "thermal threshold" fallacy. Specificity of non-thermal effects. Ion cyclotron resonance. Ion cyclotron resonance for amino acids. QED explanation required. How ion cyclotron resonance could be explained -- ch. 8. QED water III: homeopathy. Homeopathy and the memory of water. DNA emits EM signals at high dilution. DNA sequence recreated from its EM signature in pure water. Bringing bacterium to life from its DNA signals? DNA EM signals from earth's field NMR. QED and homeopathy. Quantum biology and consciousness arriving -- ch. 9. Dancing with ions. Love of water. Acid and base. The importance of ions. To bond or not to bond. The jumping bond. Dancing with multiple partners -- ch. 10. Dancing with proteins. The importance of proteins. The importance of enzymes. Supercool hydration water. More hydration shells revealed. Ferroelectric hydration water. Quantum dance of proteins -- ch. 11. Dancing with DNA. Glorious DNA. Wetting DNA. Water electrifies DNA. Quantum chemistry and DNA conductance. DNA magnetism -- ch. 12. Water at solid interfaces. Life at the interface. Interfacial water in the ideal. Probing the interface directly. Water forms massive exclusion zones. Millions of layers thick. More revelations. Light charges up water, QED. Interfacial water is liquid crystalline water. Of colloid crystals and protein folding -- ch. 13. Water electric. Hopping down a daisy chain. Charging up the batteries of life. Proton conduction along biological membranes. Nanotubes, water transport, and proton wires -- ch. 14. Water + air = life. Special chemistry. Origin of life at air-water interfaces. Recreating life in the lab -- ch. 15. Water meets air. Walking on water. Ions at the interface. Ion-specific effects. ch. 16. Water meets membranes. Membranes: the vital interface. Biological membranes. Wetting membranes. Ca[symbol] dehydrates phosphate groups -- ch. 17. The rainbow ensemble. How proteins and ions do water's quantum jazz. Salt out if you must. Support for the law of matching water affinities. Why quantum jazz is possible. The big mystery remains. Water's effortless action through ions. Water in confined spaces. Wiggins' theory. Making ATP without enzymes. Enzyme action depends on two-state water -- ch. 18. True portrait of the cell. What's wrong with our picture of the cell? Protoplasm vs cell. From proto-life to cell and protoplasm. The skeleton in the cell. The cytoskeleton in all cells. Metabolic channelling in the cytomatrix. Electromagnetic signalling and assembly of metabolons. The fractal cell -- ch. 19. Water in nanospace. Structured water at [pound]1.50 a bottle. First sighting of structured water. The devil in small nanotubes. Defining phases and structures under confinement. Phase diagram of confined water. A diversity of liquid crystalline structures. Water in extended nanospace. Reverse micelles for "superactivity". Water dynamics in reverse micelles -- ch. 20. Protein and water in nanospace. Water nanotubes, collagen, acupuncture, and energy medicine. First calculations. Fast proton exchange between all structured water. Phase transitions of water structure. Protein's secret water music in nanospace. More like nanospaces in a living cell and more precise measurements. A diversity of correlated protein-water dynamics. Crystallographic structures are misleading. Implications for living cells and recapitulation -- ch. 21. Fire and water. Water and redox chemistry of life. Oxygen from water pivotal for life on earth. Water crisis. Oxygen and the evolution of complex life forms. Oxygen is stable, abundant, and fit for life. Oxygen in action, past and present. Oxygen and the complexity of the metabolic network -- ch. 22. Water fuels the dynamo of life. Water and energy metabolism. Respiration. Photosynthesis -- ch. 23. Electronic induction animates life. Sweeping away old and new cobwebs. What's really responsible for the membrane potential. The membrane theory. Potassium bound to the cytoplasm. Potassium bound selectively inside the cell. Ling's association-induction hypothesis. The unit protoplasm. Ling's hypothesis and the liquid crystalline cell. POM and the exclusion of solutes. Support for the liquid crystalline cell and Ling's AI hypothesis. Ling's AI hypothesis in contemporary cell biology. Electronic induction animates the cell. The new cell biology. |