The Fourth Phase of Water: Dr. Gerald Pollack at TEDxGuelphU

energy and converts it into some kind of energy.useful work. And so we arrive at the equation E = H₂O. A little different from the equation you know. But I think it's really true that you can't separate energy from

water

; Water is a reservoir of energy from the environment. Can we now harvest some of this energy or is it just totally useless? Well, we can do that because you have a negative zone and a positive zone. And if you put two electrodes, you can get energy, right? Like a battery. And we did it and we were able to, for example, have a simple optical display.

It can run on the energy that is obtained from here. And obviously we need to turn it into something bigger and bigger to get the energy. This is free energy and comes from

water

. Another opportunity we have been developing is getting free, clear drinking water. If you have a hydrophilic material and you put contaminated water next to it with garbage that you want to get rid of... then what happens is, as I have shown you, this material is excluded beyond the exclusion zone, and the EZ remaining does not have any contaminants. So, you can put bacteria in there and the bacteria will disappear.

And because the exclusion zone is large, it is easy to extract the water and harvest it. And we have done it. And we are working to try to make it practical. Well, one of the things we noticed is that it seems that salt is also excluded. So now we're thinking about extending this, adding ocean water. And you put ocean water, and if you exclude salt, then you just take EZ water, which should be salt-free, and you can get drinking water from it. So, obtaining biological energy. Cells are full of macromolecules, proteins, nucleic acids and each of them is a nucleation site to form EZ waters.

So around each of these is EZ water. Now, the EZ water is negatively charged, the region beyond it is positively charged, so there is charge separation. And these separate charges are free, available to generate reactions within your cells. So what it really means is that it is a type of photosynthesis that cells perform. Light is being absorbed, converted into charge separation, exactly the same thing that happens in photosynthesis, and these charges are used by you. An example of this, getting energy on a larger scale, I mean energy comes all the time from everywhere and is absorbed by you, actually quite deeply: if you take a flashlight and shine it through your palm, you can De In fact, we see it around here, so it penetrates quite deeply and there are a lot of blood vessels around us, especially capillaries near the periphery, and it's possible that some of this energy coming in is used to help drive blood flow.

Let me explain that to you in a moment. What you see here is microcirculation, it's a piece of muscle, and you can see some capillaries running through it. And then these capillaries are the red blood cells that you can see. A typical red blood cell is seen at the top right. They are big, but when they really flow, they bend. The reason they bend is because the container is too small. So the glass is sometimes even half the size of the red blood cells. They're going to squint and pass by. Now it takes quite a bit of energy to do that, and the question is: Does your heart really supply all the energy needed to power this event?

And what we find is a surprise. We discovered that if we take a hollow tube made of hydrophilic material, such as a straw, and place the straw in water, we find a constant, endless flow. So, here's the experiment, here's the tube, and you can see the tube is put in the water. We fill the inside just to make sure it's completely full, we put it in the water and the water contains some spheres, some particles, so we can detect any movement that has occurred. And you look into the microscope and what you find looks like this: an endless flow through the tube.

It can last a full day as long as we have looked at it. So, it's free; Light is what drives this flow; In a tube, there are no additional energy sources other than light. So if you think about the human being and the energy that is absorbed into water and cells, we may use some of this energy to drive biological processes in a way that you had not imagined before. So what I presented to you has a lot of implications for science and technology that we're just starting to think about. And the most important thing is that the radiant energy is absorbed by the water and gives it energy in terms of chemical potential.

And this can be used in biological contexts, for example, like in blood flow, but also in many other contexts. And when you think about chemical reactions involving water, you just think of a molecule sitting in water. But what I have shown you is not only that, you have the particle, EZ, the positive charge, the effect of light, all of them must be taken into account. Therefore, it may be necessary to reconsider many of the types of reactions we have learned about in our chemistry class to understand them. Climate. So, I have shown you about clouds. The critical factor is the load.

If you take a course on weather and things like that, you'll hear that the most critical factors are temperature and pressure. There is almost no mention of charging, even though you can see lightning and thunder all the time. But loads can be much more important than pressure and temperature in giving us the type of weather we see. Health. When you are sick, the doctor tells you to drink water. There may be more to this than meets the eye. And in food, food is mainly water, we don't think of food as water, but rather it is mainly water.

If we want to understand how to freeze it, how to preserve it, how to avoid dehydration, we must know something about the nature of water, and we are beginning to understand that. In terms of practical uses, there is the possibility of desalination, and by the way, desalination, where it is most needed is where the sun shines the most, in dry areas. So the energy to do all this is available, freely available, to do it. And also for standard filtration, a very simple way to remove bacteria and things like that from drinking water; In fact, it could be quite cheap for third world countries.

And finally, extracting electricity from the water through the energy of the sun that enters, another possibility. So, I have tried to explain to you the

fourth

phase

of water, really understanding that water does not have three

phase

s, but four phases. And I believe that understanding the

fourth

phase is the key to opening the door to understanding many, many phenomena. And above all, what we like most is understanding the soft beauty of nature. Thank you so much. (Applause)