Water as a Free Electric Dipole Laser

Giudice, E. Del; Preparata, G.; Vitiello, Giuseppe

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.61.1085

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“…In the case of the rubber band, the tension arises from the high entropy of random knotted polymer chains. In a polar liquid the tension arises out of long ordered chains of low entropy aligned coherent dipolar domains [7,8,9,10,11]. The resulting tension in the water bridge sustains a siphon tube between two beakers without the requirement that a new external siphon tube structure of other materials be introduced.…”

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Theory of the Maxwell pressure tensor and the tension in a water bridge

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A water bridge refers to an experimental "flexible cable" made up of pure deionized water which can hang across two supports maintained with a sufficiently large voltage difference. The resulting electric fields within the deionized water flexible cable, maintain a tension which sustains the water against the downward force of gravity. A detailed calculation of the water bridge tension will be provided in terms of the Maxwell pressure tensor in a dielectric fluid medium. General properties of the dielectric liquid pressure tensor are discussed along with unusual features of dielectric fluid Bernoulli flows in an electric field. Analogies between dielectric fluid Bernoulli flows in strong electric fields and quantum Bernoulli flows in superfluids are explored.

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“…is addressed starting from first principles [55][56][57]. We will summarize here the main points of this approach, by avoiding all the difficulties of the rigorous mathematical treatments and the technicalities of QED.…”

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“…When the amount of stored energy matches the activation energy of the guest molecules, it would be transferred to them, simultaneously producing their chemical activation, the energy discharge of the CD and a chemical reaction array; the CD would then behave as a multimode laser [18,56]. A number of consequences arise:…”

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Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms

Giudice

Spinetti²,

Tedeschi³

2010

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Liquid water has been recognized long ago to be the matrix of many processes, including life and also rock dynamics. Interactions among biomolecules occur very differently in a non-aqueous system and are unable to produce life. This ability to make living processes possible implies a very peculiar structure of liquid water. According to modern Quantum Field Theory (QFT), a complementary principle (in the sense of Niels Bohr) holds between the number N of field quanta (including the matter field whose quanta are just the atoms/molecules) and the phase Ф. This means that when we focus on the atomic structure of matter it loses its coherence properties and, vice versa, when we examine the phase dynamics of the system its atomic structure becomes undefined. Superfluid liquid Helium is the first example of this peculiar quantum dynamics. In the present paper we show how consideration of the phase dynamics of liquid water makes the understanding of its peculiar role in the onset of self-organization in living organisms and in ecosystems possible.

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“…[145] evidence of two phases of water having different densities and orderings is presented, whereas [146] presents a comprehensive account of the experimental data supporting the existence in liquid water of aggregates quite larger than those accountable in terms of customary electrostatic theories. Recently, a description of liquid water in the frame of QFT exhibiting two interspersed phases in agreement with these last experimental findings has been worked out [147][148][149]. The two phases are a coherent phase made up of extended regions, the so called "coherence domains" (CDs) where all water molecules oscillate in phase between two configurations, and a non-coherent phase made up of independent molecules trapped in the interstices among the CDs.…”

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Can a Century Old Experiment Reveal Hidden Properties of Water?

Fuchs¹

2010

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Abstract:In 1893 Sir William Armstrong placed a cotton thread between two wine glasses filled with chemically pure water. After applying a high voltage, a watery connection formed, and after some time, the cotton thread was pulled into one of the glasses, leaving a rope of water suspended between the two glasses. Although being a very simple experiment, it is of special interest since it comprises a number of phenomena currently tackled in modern water science like electrolysis-less charge transport and nanobubbles. This work gives some background information about water research in general and describes the water bridge phenomenon from the viewpoint of different fields such as electrohydrodynamics and quantum field theory. It is shown that the investigation of the floating water bridge led to new discoveries about water, both in the macroscopic and microscopic realm -but these were merely "hidden" in that sense that they only become evident upon application of electric fields.

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Water as a Free Electric Dipole Laser

Cited by 328 publications

References 8 publications

Theory of the Maxwell pressure tensor and the tension in a water bridge

Theory of the Maxwell pressure tensor and the tension in a water bridge

Water Dynamics at the Root of Metamorphosis in Living Organisms

Can a Century Old Experiment Reveal Hidden Properties of Water?

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