The Latest Science on Water...
[presentations]
The Latest Science on Water
Great Advances for Whole Person Health
(It’s not “Just Water” anymore)
by Rustum Roy*
Introduction
At a worldwide Webcast from the University of Connecticut in October 2007, the debate on homeopathy, “Magic or Scientific Nonsense,” the opening speaker, a Yale Professor of Medicine, clinched his opening gambit by pointing out that after all the dilutions and succussions and more dilutions, etc., obviously the homeopathic remedy could not possibly do any good because:…after all… “it’s just water.”
This article has very little to say about homeopathy but much more about that expression used in my title—“just water,”......(continued) ►
While water is without any doubt, or even competitor, the single most important material (in all its three phases) to humans, it is quite astounding how little focussed research on liquid water’s relation to human health has been conducted by the western medical research establishment. There is not even an identified program, leave alone a whole Institute, devoted to water in the National Institutes of Health.
The whole person healing (WPH) community on the other hand has through the ages paid a lot of attention to a large array of diverse uses of water or water-based therapies of every kind from “holy waters” to hydrotherapy baths to homeopathic remedies.
With a research base in one of the world’s leading Materials Research laboratories, the need to focus a modest research program has let us to choose water as our key “material” for study. And our approach has further narrowed our emphasis towards what Penn State’s laboratory can do best—the atomic, ‘crystal’ or structure (= 3-D arrangement) of water. After three years, the first major papers resulting from this work are now appearing. We believe that this series of papers will be of considerable interest to the WPH community.
The following describes some of our results, and where we are headed.
Materials Research
Innovations, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2005, pg. 577-608
Rustum Roy, William A. Tiller, Iris Bell, and M. Richard Hoover
Materials Research Innovations, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2007, pg. 3-18
Rustum Roy, M. Richard Hoover, A.S. Bhalla, Tania Slawecki, Sandwip Dey, Wei Cao, Jing Li, S. Bhaskar
In addition, rigorous proposals for continuing this work by a University team have been prepared. Of course, these are being submitted to N.I.H., NSF, and other agencies and foundations. Moreover, if any reader knows of a Whole Person Healing organization that would be interested in supporting such rigorous physico-chemical research on this topic, please refer them to us.
1. New Materials Science of Water: Applications to Energy and Health...
A seminar held at Penn State, Oct. 20, 2008
2. Vermont Photonics Conference 2007 (with voice)...
A presentation on "Materials science approach to the structure of liquid water and some extraordinary interactions with EM radiation and charged particles in metallic sols," in Mount Snow, Vermont, October 18-20, 2007.
2. A 2007 Revolution (with voice)...
A presentation on "The 2007 Revolution in the structure of water and its implications for the future of health research," at the University of Arizona.