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4th Phase of Water

 
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Gerald Pollack studies water and has written several books on it. He says the tap water we use is dead and doesn't hydrate our cells properly. Water should be in movement not sitting under pressure in pipes full of chemicals. I have been using a reverse osmosis filter and pouring the water thru a funnel filled with gem stones to create EZ water that we need to be healthy. He also said infrared makes EZ water so when I sauna I bring quarts of water in with me. Of course a well would be first choice but at the moment I'm on nasty city water with an irrigation well full of minerals and sulphur in it, can't be used for everyday use inside. I water my garden with it but the well is not very productive for anything else. So until I move to my new place I drink filtered water.
 
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Hi Susan.



I think that his discussion on EZ water is more theoretical than practical. By placing a hydrophilic substance on one side of a container of normal water, it is possible to get water to separate into negatively and positively charged masses, but the effective range of this effect is about the width of a human hair. This makes for some exciting possibilities with regards to efficient filtration of contaminated water or desalination. It doesn't mean that if you take a jug of water into your infrared sauna, that it will be transformed into EZ water.

I don't think gemstones and funnels have anything to do with what Pollack is working with. I think that the best the gemstones could do is add some turbulence that mixes more oxygen into the water you're pouring, but regular pebbles and stones would do the same.

There are energetic changes corresponding to specific agitation of water, specifically vortexes, but no mechanism has been proven to support the idea that water has "memory" of any kind, with the possible exception of the interaction of some forms of dissolved sugars, but that may by this time have been disproven. Also, the energetic or structural changes observed in vortexing water don't hold past the actual vortexing.

I think study of this sort is critical. Oftentimes we dismiss the mundane as "known." To paraphrase Gerald Pollack, we tend to ignore some things that we have dealt with on a mundane level since time immemorial. One of these things is water, and this is true for scientists and laypeople both.

But he hasn't revealed some magic property. We know about surface tension, for instance, and about how droplets of water can sit for a time atop a larger quantity of water without being incorporated. This "fourth phase" of water seems to me to be a transitional one, or one that only occurs in boundary conditions. We can perhaps harness it, and create filters that make use of this property to more efficiently clean or desalinate water, which is a huge deal.

And UV radiation will certainly kill most water-borne biological contamination; this can be done with mason jars and a day in the sun. He's even mentioned how some energy for driving cellular processes might be derived from these boundary-effect layers and the differences in charge between them. But from my reading and from watching the TEDx, we're talking about understanding the structure of water as more than a homogenous mass, and about how understanding how water structures itself in different scenarios, the Jesus Christ Lizard and water droplets on the surface of a larger body as examples, effects the movement of water and its processing.

I would be interested to know if this effect could be used to remove fluoride and other municipal treatments from water, as it apparently has no issue with salt dissolved in water. But again, I would expect to see it require some sort of filter, wherein perhaps a thin film of water is exposed from the top of a channel to a hydrophilic substance that forces the pollutants and particulates to the bottom of the flowing water film, such that the top portion is siphoned off, and what remains is sequestered for evaluation, likely containing pollutants and contaminants of whatever sort.

-CK
 
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Pollack as stated water needs to be filtered before making EZ water.
 
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No, as stated in the video, the negatively-charged, hair-thick layer of EZ water occurs in the same vessel as the contaminated water. In the case of the video, those particles were added to illustrate the differences in charge.

I don't know if it's possible to even isolate this fourth phase separately from the mass of water in which it can be caused to occur. I do see the potential, as Pollack mentions in the video, to perhaps control charge distribution within a fluid such that you might create a liquid battery without solid components.

I don't believe that anything noted by Pollack suggests the possibility of this fourth phase of water as a health supplement.

Perhaps there's more material you could point me to. The TEDx seems fairly complete, though.

-CK
 
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I don't know anything about any of that.  But I have become quite convinced that the "live" water that I dip out of a water barrel that has goldfish, snails, and aquatic plants living in it works much better to water my garden than fresh dead water from the hose, provided by the rural water department.
 
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Dan Boone wrote:I don't know anything about any of that.  But I have become quite convinced that the "live" water that I dip out of a water barrel that has goldfish, snails, and aquatic plants living in it works much better to water my garden than fresh dead water from the hose, provided by the rural water department.



Is it possible that is from the organic material that they eat, and that they leave behind as waste.?
 
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Water is truly fascinating, and as is often the case, the simplest things often are not as simple as they appear. This article describes a study I saw years ago about consciousness and it's effect on water and its memory:
https://consciousreminder.com/2017/11/03/human-thought-can-water-just-imagine-can-us/

The works of Viktor Schauberger I also find fascinating. He understood water, and he learned it from nature, not equations and theories.
 
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Jordan Holland wrote:Water is truly fascinating, and as is often the case, the simplest things often are not as simple as they appear. This article describes a study I saw years ago about consciousness and it's effect on water and its memory:
https://consciousreminder.com/2017/11/03/human-thought-can-water-just-imagine-can-us/

The works of Viktor Schauberger I also find fascinating. He understood water, and he learned it from nature, not equations and theories.


Oh, man! There are at least three extremely interesting implications from that article that I really want to discuss, but all of them are off-topic.
 
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As goes that “fourth state of water” thing, I have high hopes for solar/rmh driven cells that have only three components: water, a transparent  hydrophilic material formed into thousands of little hexagonal cells, and wire, connecting the edges to the middles all down the line, harvesting the electricity.
 
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No R0 water for me after seeing older individuals who thought they doing themselves a favor by robbing their bodies of minerals.
 
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