Groundbreaking!

I heard of Gerald Pollack in my naturopathic practice about a decade ago, as a scientist who had postulated that water has a “memory,” and therefore might be used as an explanation for the mechanism of homeopathy, at least loosely. I didn’t know the particulars, and at the time, since he worked for a traditional university, I rather suspected that he would object to that association. It was only recently, when I started studying fluid dynamics within the human body with a strong sense that this was a key somehow to adequate detoxification, that I stumbled upon this book.

The fourth phase of water isn’t what I thought it was, at least not precisely. It’s called “EZ water,” which sounds like easy water, though it stands for Exclusion Zone water–and it seems exceedingly likely to be exactly what Pollack postulates, based upon not only his own experiments, but also its ability to elegantly explain many of water’s previously familiar but inexplicable properties. It’s so called, because it excludes all solutes that might otherwise be dissolved within “bulk water,” or what we think of as normal liquid water. It does this by forming what’s almost a gel-like crystalline structure, with charge separations between the EZ and bulk water. Its formation can be triggered by a hydrophilic surface, yet water doesn’t need such a surface to form an EZ–it also forms spontaneously within “bulk water,” which is the reason for the mosaic-like reflective patterns we see within a body of water. When water evaporates, it does so within the bulk water columns bordered by EZ, which is why steam follows a similar mosaic pattern. EZ also forms just at the point of transition of water to ice as well. Such a surface explains how things float, how “Jesus lizards” and certain insects can run across water’s surface, how water ascends to the reach the tops of trees, how the fluid line within a straw rises above the regular water’s surface, how one can skate on top of ice (and yet if you lick a frozen flagpole, you’re likely to stick), why Brownian motion occurs (he’s so bold as to revise Einstein on this), and both how and why water forms both droplets and bubbles. (It never occurred to me to think of this as peculiar before, but it really is peculiar!)

What really blew my mind about all of this is the concept that the EZ, due to its charge separation, is a perpetual potential source of energy–just like a battery. The EZ, and thus the charge separation–spontaneously grows in response to infrared light… and we have a free, ready source of this in the sun. The implications of this, to me, are enormous, and Pollack does allude to this at the end of the book (I’d hoped he’d take it much further, but I guess that’s for some engineer to take his concept and build upon it). I’m trying very hard to see how I can work this concept into my next book…

My rating: *****

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