Living 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 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.

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 EM…