Derek Sorensen

March 11, 2008

OMG! It’s true! Water has a memory

Filed under: skepticism, medicine, homoeopathy — Derek Sorensen @ 8:32 pm

Time for the skeptics to eat - nay, *choke on* - their words. It seems the qua homoeopaths have been right all along.

This paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7030/full/nature03383.html describes some recent scientific research which indicate that water does indeed have a memory. They’ve even managed to measure it pretty accurately.

It’s a bit of a long read, so I’ll summarise:

“Our results highlight the efficiency of energy redistribution within the hydrogen-bonded network, and that liquid water essentially loses the memory of persistent correlations in its structure within 50 fs.”

I guess that about wraps things up for the critics of homoeopathy, huh?

Oh, by the way, “50 fs” is 50 femto seconds. A femto second is 0.000,000,000,000,001 seconds. It seems that homoeopathic remedies might have a very short shelf life.

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