The Romance and Scientific Battle Over the 'Memory' of Water

Humans drink water every day without a second thought.
Yet, in reality, water is the most familiar and least understood substance.

Science assumes it has explained water, but
the essence of water remains about half a mystery.

Only water has strange boiling and melting points.
Its density changes are also exceptional.

Furthermore, the anomalous hypothesis that 'water has memory' continues to be debated even today.

Water gave rise to the origin of life, shaped religions,
and in the modern era, it is becoming the spark for the next conflict.

To understand water is
to understand where humans come from and where they are heading.

■1 | The anomalous hypothesis that 'water remembers'

Water is more volatile than any other liquid, and
water molecules repeatedly 'bond and break apart in an instant'.

There is a theory that this structure retains external information.

Transmitting DNA information

Leaving surrounding vibrations as patterns

Remembering the influence of trace substances

Although scientifically unconfirmed,
the 'world model where water retains information' is actually being continuously verified by multiple researchers.

If water possesses memory—
it would mean that life was born from a 'remembering ocean'.

■2 | Myths and religions understood the nature of water first

What is interesting is the fact that humanity
has treated water as something special since before science appeared.

Chozuya (water purification pavilions) at shrines

Christian baptism

Waterfall meditation

Miraculous springs

Chaos in Greek mythology = water

Religion empirically knew that water has the property of crossing boundaries.

By transcribing external information, water was used for prayers, rituals, and boundary rites.

■3 | Womb sounds and 1/f fluctuation—Humans are designed to find comfort in water

The murmuring of a river, the sound of rain, the sound of waves.

Why do people feel calm with the sound of water?

The answer is simple: it is because the frequency is the same as the sound heard in the womb.

1/f fluctuation matches

the maternal sounds heard within the amniotic fluid

the rhythm of the primordial environment of life

and is consistent with it.

In other words, feeling calm with the sound of water is not an instinct, but a memory.

■4 | Modern water has entered an era of 'scramble'

The mineral water market is growing steadily, reaching 400 billion yen in Japan alone and 30 trillion yen globally.

It is said that it will exceed 100 trillion by 2030, and water is already heading toward the same fate as oil.

Internationally,

the buying up of water sources

the political use of dams

and the battle for supremacy among bottled water companies

are already underway.

For humanity, water has become the oldest mystery and, at the same time, the newest strategic resource.

■5 | Water is an 'anomalous substance' that harbors both romance and crisis simultaneously

To summarize what we have covered so far, water is

scientifically impossible to fully understand,

biologically fundamental,

religiously sacred,

economically highly valuable,

and geopolitically fought over,

possessing these strange attributes all at once.

Its existence is closer to being a 'mediator of information and life' than a mere 'natural object'.

We drink water every day, yet we actually live knowing almost nothing of its depths.

Water is the Earth's oldest mystery, a point of contention for the future, and human memory itself.

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