Living Rainbow H2O

351 Pages·2012·5.16 MB·English

by  Mae-Wan Ho

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Living
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Mae-Wan Ho
Institute of Science in Society, UK
World Scientifc
NEW J E R S E Y • L O N D O N • S I N G A P O R E • B E I J I N G • S H A N G H A I • H O N G K O N G • TA I P E I • C H E N N A I
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LIVING RAINBOW H2O
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Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowlegements xvii
How to Read this Book xix
Chapter 1 Rainbow Dancing in the Worm 1
Love of the Rainbow Worm 1
The Quantum Jazz Dancer 3
Intercommunication is the Key 4
Water is the Means, Medium, and Message 5
Chapter 2 Weird and Wonderful Water 7
Strangely Fit for Life 7
Water Loves Bonding 9
Huge Diversity of Supramolecular Structures 10
Water, Water in Every Guise 11
Chapter 3 Cooperative Coherent Water 15
Cooperativity through Hydrogen Bonds 15
Resonant Energy Transfer through Hydrogen-bonded Networks 17
Two-state Water 18
The Chaplin Model 19
Model Fits Well with the Data 22
Water Quasicrystals and the Golden Mean 23
Two-state Model Confirmed 25
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Chapter 4 W ater and Colloid Crystals: The New
Age of Alchemy 29
Colloid Crystal Diversity Defies Description 29
The New Age of Alchemy in Water 30
Can Like Charges Attract? 33
Colloid Quasicrystals Self-assemble in Water 34
Chapter 5 Quantum Coherent Water 39
Quantum Effects 39
What is Quantum Coherence? 40
Quantum Coherence from NMR 41
Quantum Magnetic Signatures 45
Quantum Coherence in Symphonic Structures 48
Chapter 6 QED Water I 51
Coupling Matter to Electromagnetic Field 51
QED of Condensed Matter 51
Coherent Water as a Source of Almost-free Electrons 54
Burning Water 55
Quantum Coherent Water and Life 58
Chapter 7 QED Water I: Non-thermal EMF Effects 61
Debate over Non-thermal EMF Effects 61
The “Thermal Threshold” Fallacy 62
Specificity of Non-thermal Effects 63
Ion Cyclotron Resonance 64
Ion Cyclotron Resonance for Amino Acids 65
QED Explanation Required 66
How Ion Cyclotron Resonance Could be Explained 66
Chapter 8 QED Water III: Homeopathy 71
Homeopathy and the Memory of Water 71
DNA Emits EM Signals at High Dilution 72
DNA Sequence Recreated from Its EM Signature in Pure Water 74
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Bringing Bacterium to Life from Its DNA Signals? 75
DNA EM Signals from Earth’s Field NMR 76
QED and Homeopathy 77
Quantum Biology and Consciousness Arriving 79
Chapter 9 Dancing with Ions 83
Love of Water 83
Acid and Base 83
The Importance of Ions 85
To Bond or Not to Bond 86
The Jumping Bond 86
Dancing with Multiple Partners 88
Chapter 10 Dancing with Proteins 93
The Importance of Proteins 93
The Importance of Enzymes 95
Supercool Hydration Water 96
More Hydration Shells Revealed 98
Ferroelectric Hydration Water 100
Quantum Dance of Proteins 101
Chapter 1 Dancing with DNA 105
Glorious DNA 105
Wetting DNA 107
Water Electrifies DNA 108
Quantum Chemistry and DNA Conductance 109
DNA Magnetism 113
Chapter 12 Water at Solid Interfaces 115
Life at the Interface 115
Interfacial Water in the Ideal 115
Probing the Interface Directly 117
Water Forms Massive Exclusion Zones 120
Millions of Layers Thick 123
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More Revelations 123
Light Charges Up Water, QED 125
Interfacial Water is Liquid Crystalline Water 127
Of Colloid Crystals and Protein Folding 127
Chapter 13 Water Electric 131
Hopping Down a Daisy Chain 131
Charging Up the Batteries of Life 132
Proton Conduction Along Biological Membranes 133
Nanotubes, Water Transport, and Proton Wires 135
Chapter 14 Water + Air = Life 139
Special Chemistry 139
Origin of Life at Air-Water Interfaces 141
Recreating Life in the Lab 142
Chapter 15 Water Meets Air 147
Walking on Water 147
Ions at the Interface 149
Ion-specific Effects 150
Chapter 16 Water Meets Membranes 157
Membranes: the Vital Interface 157
Biological Membranes 159
Wetting Membranes 161
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Ca Dehydrates Phosphate Groups 166
Chapter 17 The Rainbow Ensemble 169
How Proteins and Ions Do Water’s Quantum Jazz 169
Salt Out If You Must 169
Support for the Law of Matching Water Affinities 172
Why Quantum Jazz is Possible 173
The Big Mystery Remains 176
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Contents ix
Water’s Effortless Action through Ions 176
Water in Confined Spaces 178
Wiggins’ Theory 179
Making ATP Without Enzymes 180
Enzyme Action Depends on Two-state Water 181
Chapter 18 True Portrait of the Cell 185
What’s Wrong with Our Picture of the Cell? 185
Protoplasm vs Cell 185
From Proto-life to Cell and Protoplasm 187
The Skeleton in the Cell 190
The Cytoskeleton in all Cells 192
Metabolic Channelling in the Cytomatrix 196
Electromagnetic Signalling and Assembly of Metabolons 197
The Fractal Cell 198
Chapter 19 Water in Nanospace 203
Structured Water at £1.50 a Bottle 203
First Sighting of Structured Water 204
The Devil in Small Nanotubes 205
Defining Phases and Structures under Confinement 207
Phase Diagram of Confined Water 207
A Diversity of Liquid Crystalline Structures 208
Water in Extended Nanospace 209
Reverse Micelles for “Superactivity” 211
Water Dynamics in Reverse Micelles 214
Chapter 20 Protein and Water in Nanospace 217
Water Nanotubes, Collagen, Acupuncture, and Energy
Medicine 217
First Calculations 219
Fast Proton Exchange Between All Structured Water 221
Phase Transitions of Water Structure 222
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