The Rainbow and the Worm : The Physics of Organisms

What Is It to Be Alive?
Do Organisms Contravene the Second Law?
Can the Second Law Cope with Organized Complexity?
Energy Flow and Living Cycles
How to Catch a Falling Electron
Towards a Thermodynamics of Organised Complexity
Sustainable Systems as Organisms
The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music
Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric
The Solid-State Cell
'Life is a Little Electric Current'
How Coherent Is the Organism? The Heartbeat of Health
How Coherent Is the Organism? Sensitivity to Weak Electromagnetic Fields
Life is All the Colors of the Rainbow in a Worm
The Liquid Crystalline Organism
Crystal Consciousness
Liquid Crystalline Water
Quantum Entanglement and Coherence
Ignorance of the External Observer
Time and Freewill

Mae-Wan Ho, B.Sc. (First Class) and Ph.D. Biochemistry, Hong Kong University, embarked on a distinguished academic career that included Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego; Fellow of the National Genetics Foundation, USA; Senior Research Fellow, University of London; and Lecturer in Genetics and then Reader in Biology, Open University, UK. Her research evolved through biochemistry, molecular genetics and non-Darwinian evolution to the physics of organisms — a new discipline defined in the present book, first published in 1993 and the 2nd edition in 1998 – and is widely acclaimed by serious scientists and non-scientists alike. Her other books include Bioelectrodynamics and Biocommunication (1994), Bioenergetics (1995), Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? (1998, 1999, reprint with extended introduction in 2007), Living with the Fluid Genome (2003), Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems (2003), Unravelling AIDS (2005), Which Energy? (2006), Food Futures Now, Organic, Sustainable, Fossil Fuel Free (2008). Mae-Wan Ho now lives in London with her husband, and is Director and co-founder of the Institute of Science in Society (www.i-sis.org.uk) and Editor of Science in Society.