01/02/2022
Fifty years ago, as relatives and friends know, I became interested in what water is doing in the cell to regulate the motions and interactions of such a variety of complex molecules. Below is where we stand in our understanding.
As water approaches the oily and ionic surfaces of natural molecules, it loses energy and forms linear elements and units of ice. Then, on leaving, as the ice melts, it absorbs energy from the surfaces and moves the molecules into lower-energy, more-ordered spatial forms. The conversions take only about a million millionth of a second - so fast, that they have been recorded only by ultra-fast electron crystallography at sub-zero-temperatures. But, the ice which forms is not normal hexagonal ice, it is "cubic," composed entirely of linear elements of water molecules. It is the form which is produced initially as water freezes, but converts so rapidly into the hexagonal form that it cannot be seen. Thus, the order between molecules in living cells is produced by the back-and-forth conversion of liquid water into cubic ice.
Although most molecular biologists do not realize that it is cubic ice which forms on surfaces - it does form there - and, in forming, patterned structures of biomolecules into spatial forms which were so much in harmony with each other and the order/disorder properties of the environment that they combined spontaneously and produced the living cell. Although the scientific community is not yet aware that it is cubic ice which forms on surfaces, it is only a matter of time until more information is available to substantiate its presence and importance.
In 1944, Erwin Schrodinger, in his little book, "What is Life," proposed that there must be a molecular form of water which provided the order required to move biomolecular evolution from randomness toward order. The answer appears to be cubic ice. For more information, contact www.cubichydration.com and www.linearhydration.com.
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