Let us consider a possibility. You wake up one morning and someone tells you something which for a moment shakes your existing belief on Science as you know it. Things like that have always happened in the past. Be it Heliocentrism (which ruined Geocentrism), Discovery of Oxygen, Discovery of structure of Atoms, X-Rays and what not. These things had shaken the contemporary science and shaped the Modern Scientific World as we know it. So today we are going to give you a brief blog on one of the foremost areas of research, THE WATER MEMORY.
Does Water Store Memory?
Let us get into the history to understand it all better.
It all starts with a French immunologist named Benveniste.
BENVENISTE'S DISCOVERY.
Benveniste was the first one to propose that water stores memories. What happened is that he diluted a solution of Human antibodies in water. What happens when you dilute something? The concentration of the solute decreases and that of the solvent increases. Well, he diluted it so much that the concentration of Antibodies (Solute) was practically zero. All that was left was water. And now, he shook the solution violently while diluting it. The results when the solution encountered Human basophils (which work in allergic reactions), was astonishing. The Basophils, when encountering the solution, behaved as if they were encountering the antibodies! So what is the big deal here? It is that if the practical solution of antibodies in the solution was zero, then how can the basophils produce allergic reactions against plain water in the solution? It was as if the water had retained the memory of the antibodies, and was behaving itself as the antibodies when encountered by the Basophils. As Benveniste put it himself, "It's like agitating a car key in the river, going miles downstream, extracting a few drops of water, and then starting one's car with the water."
MADDOX'S CONTRADICTION
Maddox and Benveniste's teams worked together and conducted the same series of experiments to reproduce the results. But as it turned out, to prove the results desperately, Benveniste's team tampered with the test tubes. When Maddox realized that, he blinded the test tubes so that Benveniste's team could not know which test tube contained which solution. And after a series of experiments, it was concluded that water memory was not NOT produced in the Blinded test tubes. Maddox's team concluded, "that there is no substantial basis for the claim that anti-IgE at high dilution (by factors as great as 10120) retains its biological effectiveness, and that the hypothesis that water can be imprinted with the memory of past solutes is as unnecessary as it is fanciful."
Maddox's Team also said, "We believe the laboratory has fostered and then cherished a delusion about the interpretation of its data." Maddox also pointed out that two of Benveniste's researchers were being paid by the French homeopathic company BOIRON." As expected there was then a series of attacks and counterattacks from both sides, but no decisive conclusion was reached.
Revival of the Theory
In 2003, Louis Rey, a chemist from Lausanne, reported that when the frozen solutions of Lithium and Sodium Chloride were prepared according to Homeopathic prescriptions, they showed different "THERMOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES" than PURE WATER. He claimed that the network of Hydrogen bonds were different in both the solution. Ironically, this theory was criticized even by Benveniste.
The Observations of Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Laureate virologist who led the team that discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) said something interesting in 2009. He claimed that he detected RADIO WAVES in the solution that contained the DNA of pathogenic bacteria and viruses.
Montagnier still says that the results of this experiment are very promising.
CONCLUSION
So, from all these experiments and extensive researches, it is still not clear whether water retains the memory of a substance dipped in it or not. But nonetheless, it is a very important area on ongoing research, which, if proved true, has the potential to shake the EMPIRE OF SCIENCE!!
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