New Proofs in Support of the Memory of Water_________________________________________________________________

Demonstration of the existence of a memory mechanism in water “magnetized” by the Filipino sensitive Alex Orbito. March 2001

 

Abstract

Although very abundant in nature and held of vital importance in all biological processes, water is still a substance not well understood in many of its chemical-physical aspects. In fact, the liquid shows a series of anomalies (the best known is its expansion during solidification) that, taken together, give the picture of a substance that escapes the full understanding of scientists and researchers alike.

This paper illustrates the magnetic qualities of water “charged” by the sensitive Filipino healer Alex Orbito. On the average, this strange water shows a level of magnetization about ten times higher than that of background magnetization (that is, it has over 2 gauss in magnetic strength against a background value of 0.2 gauss).  To give a better understanding of what this means, it has to be noted that the same brand of bottled water, left for 12 hours inside a magnetic resonance scanner with a magnetic field strength of 1000 gauss, didn’t acquire any magnetism from it. No theory is proposed for the phenomenon observed, but the simple approach detailed below might be useful to:

Research the so-called “memory of water”,

Improve our understanding of many biological mechanisms,

Research means of producing inexpensive hydrogen fuel,

Shed some light on the mechanism that allows mind-matter interaction.

We summarize below what we presently know about this liquid.       

 

The Physical Structure

One molecule of oxygen and two molecules of hydrogen make up water’s physical structure. The structure is not mirror-like and flat, as we could suppose, with the oxygen atom in the center of the compound and the two hydrogen atoms on either side of it. It is, instead, “crooked”, creating an angle of 104.5°.

Why 104.5°? The answer lies in the quantum-mechanical description of its atoms and in their inter-atomic connections. It could be understood by taking into consideration the spatial structure of the molecule. Since the birth of the molecule, there is a strange tension among the three atoms (H-O-H) forming it.  For this reason, the shape of the water molecule is not an open, flat  “V”, but a tetrahedron, the simplest solid structure that can be created. It is essentially a triangular-based pyramid, with the oxygen atom lying at its center.

There are, therefore, four sides and four vertexes. The hydrogen atoms occupy two vertexes, while the other two are occupied by two couples of electrons belonging to the oxygen atom. These electron couples, in tension between themselves, choose a position as far away as possible from each other and from the oxygen to which they belong. 

 The tetrahedral structure allows precisely the greatest distance possible among these four entities: the two hydrogen atoms and the two electron couples. If the geometric shape were perfect, the bending angle of the “V” would be 109.5°. The difference between this angle and the real (104.5°) angle is due to the major antipathy that the electron couples have towards themselves, that the aversion that they have against the hydrogen atoms. Because of this force, the two hydrogen atoms end up slightly closer to each other. 

When atoms unite to create molecules, some of them attract their common electrons in a more “egotistical” manner than the other atoms. In the water molecule, the oxygen atom attracts the electrons with such a force that it acquires a negative charge, forcing the hydrogen atoms to become positively charged. The resultant electrostatic unbalance in the molecule generates an attractive electrical force with neighboring molecules, where the hydrogen atoms of one are attracted to the oxygen atom of other molecules. This liking may be considered a sort of a chemical bond (called hydrogen bond) that is 10 times stronger that the so-called van der Waals forces that keep together a “normal” liquid (but the hydrogen bond is 10 times weaker than the chemical bond that holds together the water molecule).

In water, the hydrogen bond is therefore the tie between a hydrogen atom, positively charged, and a couple of electrons of an oxygen atom belonging to another molecule. For each molecule, it is possible to have four hydrogen bonds: two belonging to the two hydrogen atoms, and two that belong to the two couples of electrons of the oxygen atoms.

If we personify the water molecules by calling “hands” the two hydrogen atoms and “ankles” the two electron pairs, we can imagine the water structure composed – ad infinitum - by molecules united among themselves through “hands” that grasp the “ankles” of other molecules.

The peculiarities and strength of the hydrogen bond explain, at least partially, the different chemical and physical anomalies of water. For instance:

  • The hydrogen bonds remain stable for only billionths of a second before finding other connections. That is, the individual water molecule is restlessly moving about the liquid. 

  • The infrared light frequency causes its chemical bond to vibrate (this absorption makes the water vapor present in the atmosphere partially responsible for the greenhouse effect). 

  • The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of water is superior to that necessary to heat many other liquid or solid substances.

  • Water is not denser when colder. In fact, it is the densest at 4° C. Below this value, it starts to expand, until it becomes a solid at 0°C. When it melts, its density increases, reaching a maximum at 4°C. After that, it starts to behave “normally” again.

  • In ice (or in snowflakes) the water molecules aggregate themselves according to the equilateral-hexagon geometry. Its hexagonal symmetry was even known in ancient China: “Since the number six is the real number of water, this freezes in flowers that must have six points”, said T’ang Chin.

Similarly, Han Yin stated that “snow flowers are different from flowers that grow on the ground, since these usually have five petals”.

  • While many liquids increase their viscosity while under pressure, water, when compressed, becomes more fluid.

  • The elevated polarity possessed by water - that is, the fact of having a positive charge around the hydrogen atoms and a negative charge near the oxygen atom – causes the dissolution of other polar substances immersed in it.

  • Many biological molecules have polar areas (hydrophilic), and non-polar areas (hydrophobic). For instance, the behavior of a protein is determined in great measure by its tri-dimensional shape and by the manner in which it is folded. Water has, therefore, a vital role in the way biological molecules behave. For proteins, it acts as an inflexible shaper, guiding those parts adverse to water to unroll in such a way as to become molecules specialized in very definite functions.

Water’s power of guidance is rather elevated. For instance, life is possible at ocean’s great depths because this simple molecule helps proteins to keep their shape against the abyss’ crushing pressures.           

 

The Memory of Water

We have dwelt at some length with some of the properties of water, in an attempt to form in our mind some complete understanding of its strange behavior. So far, to no avail. We are not the only frustrated researchers. Although assiduously studied for many centuries, water seems to keep on offering, along its insights, even more frustrations.

One of its most fascinating and mysterious characteristics is certainly its ability to retain the memory of substances with which it comes into contact. But even the recent attempts of Benveniste (from the ISERM Institute in Paris) and others, to provide a scientific basis to disciplines like homeopathy, and to demonstrate the existence of this mysterious quality, has brought accusations of obtuseness and bad faith both from orthodox science - ideologically contrary to anything that has to do with “unknown” energies – and from the researchers themselves.

The difficulty in demonstrating the mechanism of memory in water is partially due to a lack of a clear, repetitive protocol for the experiments performed, but mostly to the absence of a scientific model that could explain its functioning.

 

The Strange Powers of the Healer Alex Orbito

Although the scientific model still eludes us, now the researcher has available a simple method that allows experiments aimed at studying the mechanism of memory in water. The method is based on water “magnetized” by the Filipino healer Alex Orbito, a sensitive known the world over (although he is not the only one possessing such a water-magnetizing ability).

Contrary to what in known in the Physics books regarding the magnetic properties of water, this normal, bottled water has the characteristics (when charged) of possessing a magnetic field strength of about 2.3 gauss. This is superior by about 10 times to the median background magnetization of approximately 0.2 gauss. Moreover, its magnetization is maintained even months after its charging. As a matter of comparison, the same brand of bottled water, when kept even for several hours inside a magnetic resonance scanner (with a magnetic field strength of 1000 gauss) didn’t accept any magnetism from it.

A series of tests have been performed by the authors with a portable gaussmeter Fieldmeter MPU-ST, between March and September 2000 on 2 liter bottled water, purchased at a local supermarket. The water was “charged” by Orbito, by simply laying his hand on it for a few seconds. The measuring procedure was as follows:

  • Three 80 ml plastic cups were filled with the charged water.

  • After setting the instrument, the gaussmeter probe was placed near and in contact with the external plastic containers. Its value was registered as 0.2 gauss, the same as the area’s background magnetization.

  • When the probe was immersed in the waters of each cup, the value raised rapidly (in about one second) to 2.3 gauss. It remained at that value for the one-minute per-cup observation period.

  • When the probe was removed from inside the water of each cup and re-positioned in contact with the external side of it, the meter returned to the 0.2 value.

  • Three new cups were filled with normal bottled water (same brand, not charged). The magnetic values were measured in proximity, on the external plastic and inside the cups full of water. The indication in the meter of the background value of 0.2 gauss didn’t change.

  • Going back to the three cups of magnetized water, half of the content in each cup was replaced with normal water from the second set of cups.

  • Readings (of 0.2 gauss) were taken both in proximity and on the external plastic of the cups from the first set.

  • The magnetic values inside the mix charged-water/normal-water in each cup were read to be 2.3 gauss. That value was reached 5 minutes after the mixture was prepared.

  • A new testing of the proximity and of the external plastic of the cups gave values of 0.2 gauss.

 

The table below summarizes the procedure followed: 

                     measured areas__________magnetic field values in gauss___

            Charged water

1)         Contact with the cups’ external                        0.2

            plastic (first measurement).

2)         Water inside the cups.                                      2.3      

3)         Contact with the cups’ external                        

            plastic (second measurement).                          0.2

 

            Normal water

4)         Contact with the cups’ external                        0.2                              

            plastic.                        

5)         Water inside the cups.                                      0.2      

           

            Mixed normal/charged water

6)         Contact with the cups’ external                        0.2

            plastic (first measurement).                             

7)         Water inside the cups.                                      2.3                  

8)         Contact with the cups’ external                        0.2

            plastic (second measurement).

 

Conclusions

Even if the tests didn’t follow strict laboratory procedures, from the results it is evident that we are faced with an unknown physical phenomenon (the suggestion that the “new” water, when mixed, acquires the same qualities of the charged water was given by Alex Orbito). Clearly, there is a transfer of characteristics (information) from the first to the second water. Obviously, since we don’t have any means to measure unknown variables, we must conclude that the “charged” water has also magnetic qualities. In the future, when the real nature of this charged water will become more apparent, perhaps its magnetic qualities will be of secondary importance with respect to its other characteristics. Also, at present we have no explanation for the nature and behavior of the accumulation mechanism, nor for the magnetic transmission, nor for the absence of a magnetic field external to the body of the liquid.

In any case, a more detailed study on the physical characteristics of this water can be conducted by normal laboratory equipment.

For example, we could:

  • Investigate if the charged molecules modify their polarization.

  • Measure any modification to the 104.5° angle.

  • Determine if there are any variations to the molecular spin values.

  • Investigate the recovery time when the charged water is mixed with the normal one.

  • Investigate the charged water/ normal water ratio limits, that elevate the new mass to the original magnetic values.

  • Measure possible changes in the infrared absorption characteristics.

  • Determine if the shaking procedure used in homeopathy modifies some of its properties.

Although the starting base is not really an orthodox one (the use of water charged by a healer), the research is scientifically valid, since it can utilize two fundamental parameters in scientific investigations:

Easily obtainable measurements and Repetitiveness.

Besides opening a practically unknown field of exploration - the interaction between mind and matter - the knowledge of new characteristics in water might impact several fields of science and medicine. For instance:

In Biology it may provide a better understanding of how human tissues absorb medicines and how biological processes take place. That could bring better and more precise methods of cure.

In Physics, it could be possible to build a model that explains the hydrogen bond and the water clusters. That could bring increased efficiency in the splitting of the water molecule to obtain hydrogen, favoring the advent of the future “hydrogen economy”. That would help to revert the greenhouse effect on Earth.

R. Lampis, Lampis Research, Casale Marittimo (Pisa). Italy  Tel 348 4107897 - rilampis@tin.it