Water - can it retain memories

Water is one of the most abundant things on our planet.

Seventy percent of a human being’s composition is water. So when someone proposes that water can retain memories, it is extremely intriguing, to say the least.

Can water form a memory of past materials it touched? Or even your thoughts or the spoken word?

One of the most enduring beliefs around homeopathy is the ability of water to keep the memory of a chemical. So, even if you dilute the essence of a herb several times over, as homeopathy does, it still keeps the memory of the herb.

Several scientists have also tried to show this property of water.

Masaru Emoto used two jugs of water, one of which he spoke words or love and another harsh words.

According to him, the crystals of water formed differently in the two jugs.

His experiment was repeated using rice, in which water was poured. The test was to see which jug formed fungus, the one with positive emotions or negative ones.

Both his tests were debunked.

Jacques Benveniste, a French immunologist, ran experiments to show that water kept memories. When others tried to replicate his experiment, they could not do so.

Physicist Rustom Roy proposed that water has quantum properties that allow it to retain memories.

Gerald Pollock a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, proposed that water has another form, in between liquid and solid. A gel-like state, with hydrophilic (water attracting) properties.

His theory is that this form of water has an electrical charge, one reason why cells function the way they do in the human body.

Unfortunately, none of the tests have met scientific scrutiny and wide acceptance.

I suppose given both the abundance of the availability and the frequent use of water, you will get people attributing interesting properties.

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