This is a continuation of the last email about the very

unusual behavior of water, and how this extraordinary

substance gives living nature a chance of occurring!

 

Last email we talked about water and its relationship to

warmth and cold, to temperature. We noted that without

water being surprisingly different to what physicists and

chemists would have predicted, our world would be vastly

different.

 

The point is that, when thought about in this way, water

breaks the rules and behaves in surprisingly different ways

to what would be expected.

 

So, another interesting point regarding temperature and

water is that our planetary and local weather patterns

depend on the fact that water needs about twice as long as

one would expect to absorb or give off heat.

 

All of our weather is driven by rising heat and falling

coldness, creating the differing pressure zones we are

familiar with when we are told the next days' weather

forecast.

 

The oceans and ice caps in particular keep this process

stable and under control, by releasing or building up warmth

more slowly than would have predicted from the chemical

makeup of water.

 

The fact that the seas are slower to change temperature

than the land is the simple basis of most of our major

weather patterns.

 

This is a vast and complicated dance from season to season

and hemisphere to hemisphere as the earth rolls around

the sun.

 

Without this slowness of water in giving up or taking in

warmth, our weather patterns would far more chaotic and

extreme than we are beginning to see in recent decades.

 

Also water's buoyancy is very special capacity, based

on its extreme density and is absolutely necessary for

us to be alive. 

 

We know from Archimedes, the Greek mathematician

who lived 2300 years ago, that anything solid placed in

water has its weight reduced by the weight of the displaced

volume of water.

 

This is why heavy metal ships float.  As long as the water

that the hollow ship displaces weighs more than the ship,

then the ship will float.

 

For the same reason, added to the buoyancy of its blubber, a

whale weighs actually about the same as a sparrow, when the

whale is resting right under water!

 

With regard to our own body it is interesting to note the

following about our ability to think:

 

In our heads the brain is separated and positioned by about

one centimeter of watery cranial fluid all around it, inside

our hard bony skull. 

 

Because of this, our brain is effectively floating as if

under water!  The brain displaces a volume of water its own

size, reducing its own weight by the weight of water its

own size.

 

This means that a 400 gm brain actually weighs about 20 gm

when floating inside our heads. The wonderful result of this

is that the nerves coming into the brain are not squashed

down by this 400 gm of weight.

 

If this small amount of surrounding water did not make our

brain float lightly inside the bowl of our head, we would

drop to the floor paralyzed and die.

 

Another wonderful fact of water is that it is a universal

solvent, being one of the best solvents we have, with 84

out of the known 103 elements on this planet being dissolved

by it.

 

Water carries enriching minerals and nutrients while it

travels over the earth, leaving organic richness where ever

it goes. Our richest plains are flood plains.  But this is

also true of small valleys and mineral springs, created by

water.

 

When drunk by living organisms, water carries many of these

nutrients into our physical bodies, as well as spreading 

eaten food throughout the cells.

 

And then, amazingly to my mind, the water somehow

communicates in us what to do with the nutrients!

 

Therefore water's extreme capacity to dissolve and transport

large amounts of  minerals is essential for the maintenance

of life in all organisms all over the world.

 

And sadly, it also means water, unselfishly so to speak,

carries polluting chemicals everywhere as well.

 

We are about 70% water and this water in us behaves in

mysterious ways that we are only beginning to understand.

 

A final unusual characteristic of water to mention here, is

that water has a much higher surface and internal tension

than comparable substances.

 

Water hangs onto itself so to speak, its molecules

grip together more than other liquid substances. Perhaps

we have seen insects walking on the surface of ponds? They

can do this because of the high surface tension.

 

We can also see that water rises up on the inside of our

glasses. This is called a meniscus.

 

So what comes from this capacity of water to hold onto itself

so strongly?

 

Only the smallest of plants could survive if water did not

have these characteristics. Because of the internal tension

of water it can drag itself upwards through tall trees

without breaking off in its upwards flow.

 

This upwards flow is caused by the water flowing out of the

leaves into the air, pulling more water up as it does so.

 

Its nice to know that something so strange and powerful is

the most common element in our world.

 

And that nature and we (as part of it!) depend utterly on

water in ways that go far beyond just needing to drink it.

 

Regards

 

Iain Trousdell

Co-Founder and Keynote Speaker

The Healing Water Institute

www.healingwaterinstitute.org

 

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