"Robert Karl Stonjek"  wrote:
> Courtesy of Martin Chaplin
> Researchers are beginning to glimpse water's secret social life.
> Evidence is
> mounting that water in living systems naturally gathers into frameworks of
> 14, 17, 21, 196, 280, or more molecules. Some say that the clusters'
> apparent existence necessitates redesigning simulation models of life
> processes. And support is growing behind the idea that these intricate
> structures play key roles in operations ranging from molecular binding to
> turning on and off basic cell processes.

JE:-
I think such things are called quasi crystals.

Homeopathic medicine assumes that water can
replicate and conserve information. The idea
is that a massive dilution of a poison could
allow a cure via the poison information being
almost entirely coded by such harmless water molecule
clusters allowing a safe production of some sort
of antidote via the body. I suspect that water
is much more complex than we believe and can
conserve some information.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au






>
> Such huge clusters certainly exist under some conditions, according to
> Richard Saykally, professor of chemistry at University of California,
> Berkeley. Saykally has spent years studying isolated water clusters using
> laser spectroscopy techniques that he developed. "There is no
> theoretical or
> practical limit on the size that these clusters could grow to," he says,
> adding that their life spans are limited only by their collisions
> with other
> molecules, an event that, within the stormy cell interior, usually occurs
> every few picoseconds.
>
> EVIDENCE AMASSING Using infrared spectroscopy, two research
> groups recently
> added to the evidence that clusters of dozens or even hundreds of water
> molecules exist in nature. Many chemists are intrigued by the uses nature
> might have for such structures. A team led by William Royer at the
> University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, has shown
> experimentally that 17-molecule water clusters can serve as a
> communications
> medium between protein subunits. Chemist Martha Teeter at Boston
> College has
> found that clusters of 30 or more water molecules mediate some protein
> binding. Martin Chaplin at London's South Bank University posits an even
> more radical model for how cluster dynamics may make it possible for cells
> to maintain ion gradients without spending energy. Further, he
> contends that
> collapsing water structures may serve as signaling switches in the cell.
>
> Full Text at The Scientist.com
> http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2004/nov/research_041108.html
>
> Comment:
> Could this structure have also been a precursory form of life in, say, the
> ancient sea?
>
> Posted by
> Robert Karl Stonjek
>
>
>
>
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