The muscles in water

Translation into American English by Katharina Gustavs (Canada)


Have you ever looked into water to find muscles? Probably not, because even through the best electron microscope you won't be able to see any. The most intriguing quality of liquid water is its transparency. Almost all living cells share this top secret. Not to be visible, but to be highly effective. Who hasn't dreamed of something like that yet? It is the most successful tool in the struggle for existence.
A very simple experiment, however, allows me to fish those muscles out of water. They look like a very thin skin then or a membrane as called by scientists. I did this experiment in my own kitchen and fished such a muscle membrane out of the water. First, I gently pour water over the membrane from the top, that is, I offer it something to drink not to disturb it. It starts to grow right away and becomes longer and longer. The moment I stop feeding it with water, it always begins to shrink, to contract like a real muscle with the potential to lift weights. Now I can start all over again and feed it some water so that it will grow again and become longer and longer.
The experiment is so simple that everybody can do it. I would be happy to come for a demonstration. Since no hi-tech is required, scientists are not interested in it. Life cannot be that simple, it got to be complicated obscure scientists assure me. Well, these obscure scientists obviously prefer to experiment in the darkness of their laboratories, where they hold well-paid positions and consume our taxes.
It is not just by chance that water or more exactly its membrane has the ability to work like a muscle. Any living matter contains this water membrane with the potential to contract itself. It is also hidden in water, but transparent and mixed with another substance that is unable to contract itself. The counterpart tries to expand itself all the time. Both of them keep a balance so that water maintains its volume. Water is so smart that it fooled scientists from all over the world up to the present day. Due to its transparency water could keep its secret even from natural sciences.

Now let's explore another fact that suggests that there must be two different types of water - a muscle-like, contracting and an expanding one. Everybody knows sparkling water. A whole lot of the gas carbon dioxide is dissolved in water. Actually, this is paradox. Because you can also dissolve mineral oil with carbon dioxide. Try that with simple water, it wouldn't work. This ability of carbon dioxide is used by the oil industry to get the last drop of mineral oil out of their boreholes. Carbon dioxide can creep into the smallest pockets and get the mineral oil up to the oil sheik.
The ability to dissolve oils is called hydrophobic, that is, "water avoiding" in plain English. Now let's have another look at our sparkling water. How come carbon dioxide - known to avoid water and dissolve mineral oil - dissolves so profusely in water? That's a trick of the contracting muscle membrane. Because it is also hydrophobic (water avoiding) it loves carbon dioxide that is usually present in large amounts in all living cells. In the case of small individual cells you can extract carbon dioxide and they will die without it. If you tried the same with whole organisms or many cells you would fail because any cell activity releases carbon dioxide. Too much carbon dioxide, however, suffocates life.
There seems to be a contradiction. Carbon dioxide, even though hydrophobic like muscle membrane water, dissolves in water. As a consequence mineral oil should also dissolve in water. And it does! You simply need to apply ultrasound. It is so powerful a sound that it can smash water into many, many tiny droplets whereby increasing the amount of muscle membrane water tremendously. Now even oil can be dissolved in water. Dishwashing detergent performs the same miracle in your sink. Instead of droplets, it creates bubbles. The surface of these bubbles is made of muscle membrane water and hence fat can be dissolved to the great delight of the housewife and her partner. Biological cells also contain such "dishwashing" detergents, for instance, in the form of choline stored in phosphorlipids which is why phosphorous is one of the most important elements in biology.
Muscle membrane water is the reason for the wonders of life. So far human technology has not been able to copy the strength and elasticity of an ordinary grain stalk that even bears a heavy ear on top and withstands many a storm, as long as it was not fertilized with too much nitrogen. Or think of a spider web. It is more tearproof than the best high grade steel. Think of your own muscles and tendons or even your heart.

The organ which contains the most muscle membrane water is the brain and also an important part of it - the eyes. At the very beginning, the eye is actually a fold of the brain.
The long and the short of it is: muscle membrane water is essential for life, but microwaves can destroy it. The particular water molecule we are talking about here is as long as an antenna, you could also call it a dipole. When a microwave hits this rod-like structured water, first it begins to shake and then it snaps in its center creating its counterpart the expanding type of water. Yet the contracting water is dead.
Think of your microwave oven. That's why everything containing water boils so rapidly in there. The water antenna - the dipole - actually attracts microwaves.
Now, the organs of living organisms contain more water than you ever imagined. Human beings for instance contain 85% water and not just 70% as quoted in the fairy-tale books of science. If you dare to heat the so-called 30% dry matter well over 100C, you can see more water evaporate until only black carbon is finally left - provided that you have enough patience. I remember my first experiment in grade seven. We had to heat two test tubes at the same time, one was filled with table salt and the other with sugar. The first one simply melted, only transforming in a physical sense. The sugar turned all black and water condensed xxx. The sugar was lost and left a mist of water behind.

Scientists simply forgot about this water. Though the great German chemist Emil Fischer gave this substance its scientific name carbohydrate in order to make clear that sugar is a hydrate of carbon, that is, carbon water. They did not believe him. They will have to die stupid. Poor Emil, why would they award you with the Nobel prize? For deterrence maybe?
Because of this water - spread like a membrane - all living organisms are at high risk when exposed to microwaves, plants in particular due to their large surfaces. Forests are mainly damaged by the microwave radiation given off from radar installations and cellular phone base stations. The impact of microwave radiation is worst when its cold. Conifers keep their needles during winter and during cold nights. Trees simply dry out because they cannot get water via their roots. And the base station keeps radiating ...
Dry eyes are a common ailment these days. A friend of my wife is a pharmacist and she could tell you a thing or two about people asking for medication against dry eyes. German ophtamologists have already established a specialized association for this reason. But they do not listen to me when I tell them something about electrosmog and microwaves in particular. Recently, I read renowned book on electrosmog, but it did not say anything about water. Is it a good book?
Finally, I would like to point out the main risk. Sperms of men need to divide (400 times) and multiply rather often. They are not protected. Germ that they are contain a great deal of muscle membrane water. They have got to work hard with their flagellae because each of them tries to reach the egg first. And they have to do that without blood supply. Like any other cold blooders (frog, turtle, corocodile, etc.) they need to extract the thermal energy from their ambient environment. So they are all open to their environment and unprotected. The energy for division is almost exclusively supplied by the water membranes. Whenever there is activity, the sperms are particularly at risk. Fifty percent of all men are already infertile because they do not have enough viable sperms. The essential water membranes are simply boiled to death by microwaves.

Give the experiment a try and have a look how this water membrane can either contract spontaneously or expand for ever. All of a sudden you will understand what life is. Life is contraction down to zero expansion (complete sacrifice). Life is zero contraction.

Dynamics of surface tension or Transformation of membrane energy into locomotion

Insects have a long list of ingenious means for fending off predators. They go in for camouflage coloring and offensive odors: in some cases they even mimic other insects that their enemy has no taste for. But few match the imaginative arsenal of the little (quarter inch long) Stenodus beetle, which has a defense mechanism as sophisticated as tomorrow's anti-missile missile. Attacked by a water strider, a fast, long legged bug that is its customary nemesis, the Stenodus simply squirts out a charge of fluid detergent from a pair of abdominal glands. The detergent destroys the thin elastic layer of water that marks the boundary between fluid and air. With that surface tension gone, a small water wave rises and propels the Stenodus out of danger. When the attacking water strider, which is normally supported by the film of surface tension, tries to follow it sinks and drowns.
45 Feet at Top Speed . This novel means of protection was discovered almost accidentally by German Entomologists Karl Linsenmair and Dr. Rudolf Jander of Frieburg Zoological Institute. In flooded gravel puts alongside the Karlsruhe-Basle autobahn, the two men were studying the orientation mechanism by which the Stenodus does its navigation.

The more Linsenmair and Jander watched, however, the more they were struck by another phenomenon. The Stenodus beetles normally move across water by slow paddling. But whenever they were attacked, they spurted out of danger at much greater speed. They can travel at 2 1/2 ft. a second and can continue at that pace as far as 45 ft. This rapid motion had been noted by entomologists since the turn of the century, but no one had explained it. Linsenmair and Jander disco-vered that the Stenodus' getaway power came from its internally manufactured detergent.
Kills Every Time. If a Stenodus exhausts all of its detergent in one 45-ft. dash, it needs a week or more to replenish its supply. But the canny beetle seems to know this and uses its emergency throttle sparingly. Linsenmair and Jander watched Stenodus beetles turning and weaving like PT boats, as if to catch their enemies squarely in their wakes. Like most weapons, though, the Ste-nodus' go power works only astern and water striders on frontal-attack patterns made kills every time.
Think also about dolphins and their velocity faster as the power of muscles and the energy of the metabolism allows. Think about the oils in the hide capillaries.
Deutsche Stichworte: Käfer Stenodus entkommt der Wasserwanze durch ein Öl, welches er auf die Wasseroberfläche sprüht und damit die Oberflächenspannung auf Null herabsetzt. Er kann 15 Meter weit sprinten in einer Höchstgeschwindigkeit von einem Meter pro Sekunde. Die Wanze versinkt, wenn sie dem Käfer folgen will, denn es ist keine Oberfläche mehr da. Dieser Artikel ist die Antwort auf die Behauptung eines Mannes, der sich sceptic tobe nennt und die Weisheit mit Löffeln gefressen hat. Er meint Oberflächenspannung kann vom Leben nicht genutzt werden. Bei der freien Membrane ist diese sogar doppelt so hoch und die kann sich sogar kontrahieren zu NULL.