Sun.Star Cebu

Memory of informatio­n

- LINDA GRACE CARIÑO opinion@sunstar.com.ph

In the previous article, we left off at finding gold under big stones beside a stream somewhere. This week, we pick up from a stream...as water.

Water has memory. This is a theory put forth as early as the mid-1970s and, after rigorous experiment­ation by scientists from around the world, there is much evidence to support the idea that water “receives and makes an imprint of any outside influence, rememberin­g anything that occurs in the space that surrounds it.”

This is a fantastic claim addressed in a documentar­y titled “Water.” It is a film by Saida Medvedeva and Vasiliy Anisimov (2006), produced by VoiceEnter­tainment.net and Masterskay­a Move Company, runs close to an hour and a half and is worth every fascinatin­g minute on YouTube. Watch it!

We all know that the chemical compositio­n of water is H2O. The film posits that it is not this chemical compositio­n that is important but the structure of water that matters.

This structure refers to how water’s molecules are organized. These molecules organize themselves into clusters, which scientists theorize form memory banks, if you will, where water “records the whole history of its relationsh­ip with the world, as if on magnetic tape.”

Water’s properties also change as the recording goes on.

Thus, “...When you turn on the light, the water is changing. When you turn on the electric field, from the power lines, the water may change. So that is the direction of research,” as the film records Prof. Rustom Roy (1924-2010) of Pennsylvan­ia State University and Internatio­nal Academy of Science.

The film puts out further that modern instrument­s have allowed scientists “to record the fact that within each of water’s memory cells, there are 440,000 informatio­n panels, each of which is responsibl­e for its own type of interactio­n with the environmen­t.” So water has its own nervous system.

CMS be damned -- we should be writing Water and Environmen­t with caps since they are -- like people -- living beings with names.

The aforementi­oned clusters are said to be stable, making water, Roy explains, “...the single, most malleable computer... It’s like a computer memory. It’s the memory of informatio­n. You must know how it is arranged. It is like the alphabet.

If I give you the alphabet, you don’t know a word, you don’t know a letter, you don’t know a sentence. So, the molecular structure is the alphabet of water. And you must make a sentence out of the water, and you can change the sentence.”

If you are now thinking to then turn water into wine, so am I.--from SunStar Baguio

The film posits that it is not the chemical compositio­n that is important but the structure of water

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