Cosmologic philosophy: fine tuning of water (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 05, 2020, 23:54 (1238 days ago) @ David Turell

Water is like no other liquid and without its properties life can't exist:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201119141756.htm

"Water, both common and necessary for life on Earth, behaves very strangely in comparison with other substances. How water's properties such as density, specific heat, viscosity and compressibility respond to changes in pressure and temperature is completely opposite to other liquids that we know. Consequently, water is often called "anomalous." If water would have behaved as a "normal liquid" we would not exist, since marine life could not have developed.

"There have existed a number of explanations to the strange properties of water and one of them propose that water has the ability to exist as two different liquids at different pressures and at low temperatures. If we would be able to keep the two liquids in a glass they would separate with a clear interface in between, as for water and oil. Ordinary water at our ambient conditions is only one liquid and no interface would be seen in a glass -- but on a molecular level, it fluctuates creating small local regions of similar density as the two liquids, causing water's strange behaviour.

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"'I wonder if the two liquid states as fluctuations could be an important ingredient to the biological processes in living cells," says Fivos Perakis, Assistant Professor in Chemical Physics at Stockholm University. "The new result can open up many new research directions also about water in biological sciences."

"'Maybe one of the liquid forms is more prominent for water in small pores inside membranes used to desalinate water," says Marjorie Ladd Parada, Postdoc at Stockholm University. "I think the access to clean water will be one of the major challenges with climate change."

"'There has been an intense debate about the origin of the strange properties of water for over a century since the early work of Wolfgang Röntgen," further explains Anders Nilsson. "Researchers studying the physics of water can now settle on the model that water can exist as two liquids in the supercooled regime. The next stage is to find if there is a critical point when the two liquids cross over to become only one liquid, as the pressure and temperature changes. A big challenge for the next few years.'"

Comment: I don't have to explain water's weirdness. God purposely designed it this way so life could form. dhw thinks God has to experiment. God knows exactly what He is doing. Everything that has appeared is clearly interlocking by design.