Those nutty Japanese and quantum physics...

So, after a long absence I have finally found something interesting enough to share with the world at large (i.e. the 4 or so people who bother to read this blog).
Whilst studying the principles of Homeopathy (part of my course in Nutrition) I came across the interesting (if highly debatable) work of one Dr Masuru Emoto. This dapper little chappie collects water samples from around the country, freezes it in 1ml quantities, lets it gradually unfreeze in -5 degree conditions and photographs the 'snowflake' crystals that form on top of the droplet. Nothing so new there. Snowflakes have been photographed for ages. So pretty 'n stuff. So he comes out with some pretty predictable shots of water from around Japan's rivers, springs, dams and lakes as shown below.

Antarctic Ice From the healing fountain, Lourdes

There's tonnes of shots. Just google it and have a look. Pretty impressive stuff.

Then he went further and photographed fujiwara dam water before and after a prayer and )da da da daaaaaa) the crystal structure CHANGED.

They tried words, 'Love and appreciation', 'I hate you, you make me sick', 'Adolf Hitler' and 'Mother Theresa' and LO, the crystals changed into lots of murky yuckiness! (Not for Mother Theresa obviously)

Music had a similar effect with Beethoven, Tibet Sutras and folk dances making pretty snowflakes and Heavy metal creating.....murky yuckiness,.whoa -water has taste!

Apart from my flippancy, if you look at this from a quantum physics standpoint it's not all that unbelievable, but I'll leave you to do the figuring.

To my way of thinking, if this works, we don't need to recycle water, or build desalination plants. We could all just crowd around Waragamba with some really big sub-woofers and pump out Vaughan Williams while praying to mother Theresa to smite Adolf Hitler 'cos he makes us sick.

Ahhh humanity, we come up with some pretty goddam interesting stuff...now where does one get research grants for this typa thang.......:)