Water behaves in ways that have fascinated and confounded scientists for centuries. In very recent times a group of scientists based at Boston University have arrived at a hypotheses that there’s not one water, there are two waters, both sharing the basic construct of two Hydrogen atoms and a single Oxygen atom, but with different linking structures that make it possible for water molecules to bind to each other in two different ways.
One type of construct for water is a spacious low density version with broader separation between the molecules, the other a tighter, higher density version. Two different liquids formed from the same molecules, each of the two liquids fighting for dominance in the matrix.
Despite a lot of scepticism in the scientific community the team at Boston University was eventually able to verify the two liquid hypothesis with the aid of the newly constructed X Ray laser facility at Pohang in South Korea. The resulting paper prepared by Anders Nilsson and his team was submitted to the prestigious journal Science, accepted and published in November 2020.
Separately to this work Sylvie Roek’s research group at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne performed an experiment inserting a single salt molecule into a volume of water. It immediately changed the positions of millions of water molecules far away from the insertion point, providing evidence of some kind of communication network operating between the water molecules.
Maybe water works as a kind of computer network of nature and maybe the two liquid structures of water could be the ones and the zeros?
For a comprehensive and very well made hour long doco on this discovery check out the Youtube vid on this link www.youtube.com/watch?v=37hVBuuY9WI
