Emoto
Emoto
of water
M. Pitkänen
Email: [email protected].
http://tgdtheory.com/.
June 20, 2019
Abstract
Masaru Emoto has carried out very interesting experiments with water at critical point
for freezing. He claims that words expressing emotions have effect on the crystals formed in
the process. Emoto reports that words with positive emotional contents produce beautiful
crystals and those with negative emotional content generate ugly ones. Also music and even
pictures are reported to have similar effect. Emoto has also experimented with rice in water
and claims that the words with positive emotions content induce a metabolic process known
as fermentation whereas those with negative emotional content tend to induce rottening. The
experiments can be certainly criticized and people calling themselves skeptics have reacted
violently to these claims. TGD inspired theory of consciousness and quantum biology suggests
the presence of just this kind of effects and therefore one can make the working hypothesis
that the effects are real, and see what the TGD based explanation for them could be.
In the sequel I will consider the working hypothesis that the effects are real, and develop an
explanation based on TGD inspired quantum biology. The basic ingredients of the model are
following: magnetic body (MB) carrying dark matter as hef f /h = nphases of ordinary matter;
communications between MB and biological body (BB) using dark photons able to transform
to ordinary photons identifiable as bio-photons; the special properties of water explained in
TGD framework by assuming dark component of water implying that criticality for freezing
involves also quantum criticality, and the realization of genetic code and counterparts of the
basic bio-molecules as dark proton sequences and as 3-chords consisting of light or sound
providing a universal language allowing universal manner to express emotions in terms of
bio-harmony realized as music of light or sound. The entanglement of water sample and the
subject person (with MBs included) realized as flux tube connections would give rise to a larger
conscious entity expressing emotions via language realized in terms of basic biomolecules in
a universal manner by utilizing genetic code realized in terms of both dark proton sequences
and music of light of light and sound.
Contents
1 Introduction 2
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1. Introduction 2
1 Introduction
Sini Kunnas sent a link to a video telling about experiments of Masaru Emoto (see http://
tinyurl.com/pqy57jj) with water, which is at criticality with respect to freezing and then frozen.
Emoto reports is that words expressing emotions are transmitted to water: positive emotions tend
to generate beautiful crystal structures and negative emotions ugly ones. Also music and even
pictures are claimed to have similar effects. Emoto has also carried out similar experiments with
rice in water. Rice subjected to words began to ferment and water subject to words expressing
negative emotions began to rotten.
Remark: Fermentation is a metabolic process consuming sugar in absence of oxygen. Metabolism
is a basic signature of life so that at least in this aspect the water+rice system would become alive.
The words expressing positive emotions or even music would serve as a signal “waking up” the
system.
One could define genuine skeptic as a person who challenges existing beliefs and pseudo-skeptic
(PS in the sequel) as a person challenging - usually denying - everything challenging the mainstream
beliefs. The reception of the claims of Emoto is a representative example about the extremely
hostile reactions of PSs as aggressive watchdogs of materialistic science towards anything that
challenges their belief system. The psychology behind this attitude is same as behind religious and
political fanatism.
I must emphasize that I see myself as a thinker and regard myself as a skeptic in the old-
fashioned sense of the word challenging the prevailing world view rather than phenomena challeng-
ing the prevailing world view. I do not want to be classified as believer or non-believer. The fact is
that if TGD inspired theory of consciousness and quantum biology describes reality, a revolution
in the world view is unavoidable. Therefore it is natural to consider the working hypothesis that
the effects are real and see what the TGD based explanation for them could be.
The Wikipedia article about Masaru Emoto (see http://tinyurl.com/pqy57jj) provides a
good summary of the experiments of Emoto and provides a lot of links so that I will give here
only a brief sketch. According to the article Emoto believed that water was a “blueprint for our
reality” and that emotional “energies” and “vibrations” could change the physical structure of
water. The water crystallization experiments of Emoto consisted of exposing water in glasses to
different words, pictures or music, and then freezing and examining the aesthetic properties of the
resulting crystals with microscopic photography. Emoto made the claim that water exposed to
positive speech and thoughts would result in visually “pleasing” crystals being formed when that
water was frozen, and that negative intention would yield “ugly” crystal formations.
In 2008, Emoto and collaborators published and article titled “Double-Blind Test of the Effects
of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation” about his about experiments with water in the
Journal of Scientific Exploration, a peer reviewed scientific journal of the Society for Scientific
Explorations (see http://tinyurl.com/ycsnu2oc). The work was performed by Masaru Emoto
and Takashige Kizu of Emotos own IHM General Institute, along with Dean Radin and Nancy
Lund of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is on Stephen Barrett’s Quackwatch (see http:
//tinyurl.com/y99kol2e) blacklist of questionable organizations. PSs are the modern jesuits and
for jesuits the end justifies the means.
Emoto has also carried experiments with rice samples in water. There are 3 samples. First
sample “hears” words with positive emotional meaning, second sample words with negative emo-
tional meaning, and the third sample serving as a control sample. Emoto reports (see https:
//youtu.be/Wc-ZmvxfBxE) that the rice subjected to words with positive emotional content be-
gan to ferment whereas water subject to words expressing negative emotions began to rotten. The
control sample also began to rotten but not so fast.
In the sequel I will consider the working hypothesis that the effects are real, and develop
an explanation based on TGD inspired quantum biology [K5, K4, K3]. The basic ingredients
of the model are following: magnetic body (MB) carrying dark matter as hef f /h = nphases of
ordinary matter; communications between MB and biological body (BB) using dark photons able to
transform to ordinary photons identifiable as bio-photons; the special properties of water explained
in TGD framework by assuming dark component of water implying that criticality for freezing
involves also quantum criticality, and the realization of genetic code and counterparts of the basic
bio-molecules as dark proton sequences and as 3-chords consisting of light or sound providing a
universal language allowing universal manner to express emotions in terms of bio-harmony realized
2. The reception of the findings of Emoto 3
as music of light or sound. The entanglement of water sample and the subject person (with MBs
included) realized as flux tube connections would give rise to a larger conscious entity expressing
emotions via language realized in terms of basic biomolecules in a universal manner by utilizing
genetic code realized in terms of both dark proton sequences and music of light of light and sound.
Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them prone
to manipulation or human error influencing the findings. Biochemist and Director
of Microscopy at University College Cork William Reville wrote, ”It is very unlikely
that there is any reality behind claims of Emoto.”. Reville noted the lack of scientific
publication and pointed out that anyone who could demonstrate such a phenomenon
would become immediately famous and probably wealthy.
Remark:The absence of scientific publication (in respected journal of course) often reflects
the fact that PSs have reached their goal to prevent publishing anything challenging their beliefs.
I have experienced this myself during four decades very concretely. At nineties it became even
impossible to get anything into arXiv.
Writing about Emoto’s ideas in the Skeptical Inquirer, physician Harriet A. Hall con-
cluded that it was ”hard to see how anyone could mistake it for science”. Commenting
on Emoto’s ideas about clearing water polluted by algae, biologist Tyler Volk stated,
”What he is saying has nothing to do with science as I know it.” Stephen Kiesling
wrote in Spirituality & Health Magazine, ”Perhaps Emoto is an evangelist who val-
ues the message of his images more than the particulars of science; nevertheless, this
spiritual teacher might focus his future practice less on gratitude and more on honesty.”.
charlatan, or evangelist. The rage of PSs is really frightening and demonstrates how powerful
effects ideology can have.
Emoto shares the fate of experimenters studying water memory and homeopathy. “Homeopa-
thy” is indeed a word making skeptic growl and drool: one can hardly imagine a more impressive
demonstration of words on water than this! An almost- Nobelist Benveniste was labelled as swindler
as he announced about experiments providing support for water memory and homeopathy. Magi-
cian Randi - Randi again(!) - participated the investigation of the mind-police of science, in which
Benveniste and laboratory staff was treated like criminals unless otherwise proven.
There is a lot of support about the representation of water memory as extremely low frequencies
(ELF) of radiation associated with water [I2, I3]. These ELF frequencies can be stored electroni-
cally and they produce the same effects as the bio-active chemical, whose presence induced these
frequencies in water. These facts PSs simply neglect because they do not fit the belief system of
PSs dating back to 18th century. At the age of IT the idea about the existence of representations of
bio-active molecules as frequency patterns able to induce the biological effects of molecules without
the presence of molecules should not raise aggressions.
Few years ago HIV Nobelist Montagnier did experiments giving support for water memory and
the procedure involved a part very similar to that used in preparing homeopathic remedies [I6] [L1].
In TGD framework these frequencies would correspond to cyclotron frequencies assignable to MBs
of molecules, and immune system is proposed to have emerged from the ability of water to mimic
the magnetic bodies of invader molecules and learning to recognize them [K2]. This interpretation
could mean a breakthrough in biology but unfortunately the time is not mature for this yet.
Remote mental interactions/paranormal phenomena [K5] belong also to the pariah phenomena
having no place in materialistic world and people having the courage to challenge this view are
labelled as science criminals by PSs.
thinking of PSs: PSs love to say that the effects of healing practices produce nothing but placebo
effects without realizing that placebo effect as such is a fascinating mind-over-matter effect begging
for explanation!
Of course, if Emoto believed that the emotions have effects on water, his desire to prove this
belief might have produced these effects - not by cheating but by intentional rather than emotional
imprinting based on remote mental interactions affecting water. The words as such need not have
caused the effect. This would represent an example of remote mental interactions. Note however
that also music and even pictures were reported to have effects on water and it is not easy to
explain this as experimenter effect.
An amusing “experiment” on rice was carried out by a hard-nosed skeptic Carry Poppy (see
http://tinyurl.com/y8g9jgal). The extremely nasty tone of the article reveals the hatred of
Poppy towards Emoto and people challenging the materialist world view. The outcome of the
“experiment” carried by Poppy was of course negative. Perhaps not surprising, the outcome would
express faithfully the real intention and desire of the experimenter!
leads to two basic proposals predicting the numbers of DNA codons coding for given AA rather
successfully.
1. The first proposal [L4] relies on TGD view about dark matter as hef f /h = n phases of
ordinary matter [K1, K7, K8] motivated by adelic physics extending physics to include also the
correlates of cognition [L7, L8] (see http://tinyurl.com/ycbhse5c and http://tinyurl.
com/ybzkfevz). The empirical motivation comes from several sources, in particular from the
findings of Pollack.
Dark genetic code would be realized in terms of dark proton sequences at flux tubes- dark
nuclei. The model predicts dark counterparts of DNA, mRNA, tRNA, and AA as dark proton
sequences which codons identifiable as dark proton triplets. Bio-chemistry would emerge as
a shadow of the much simpler dynamics of dark matter at flux tubes and genetic code would
be induced by dark code code.
2. Second model of genetic code emerged accidentally from a geometric model of music har-
mony [L2, L12] (see http://tinyurl.com/yad4tqwl and http://tinyurl.com/yd8d8x6j)
involving icosahedral (12 vertices-12-note scale and 20 faces-number of AAs) and tetrahedral
geometries leading to the proposal that DNA codons and possibly also AAs correspond to
3-chords defining the harmony and obtained as unions of 20+20+20 3-chords associated with
icosahedral 20-chord harmonies with symmetries Z6 , Z4 , Z2 plus tetrahedral 4-chord harmony.
There is large number of these harmonies bringing in additional degrees of freedom.
Remark: This model has obviously analogies with the notion of wave genome introduced
by Peter Gariaev [I4, I5, I9].
Since music both expresses and creates emotions, the proposal is that these harmonies assign-
ing additional hidden degrees of freedom to the MBs of dark variants of DNA, RNA, etc...
serve as correlates of emotions also at the molecular level. This emotional context could
also give rise to context dependence of the code if several harmonies are realizable chemi-
cally. Taking seriously TGD inspired theory of consciousness [L9] (see http://tinyurl.com/
ycxm2tpd) and model of emotions [L11] (see http://tinyurl.com/ydhxen4g), one might say
that the details of the code might depend slightly on the “emotional” state of DNA, RNA,
and possibly other molecules.
1. The basic vision is that living matter is a quantum critical system making it extremely
sensitive to perturbations (actually TGD Universe is quantum critical in well-defined sense
[L14] (see http://tinyurl.com/yakzlllk). This makes biological system an ideal sensor
and motor instrument. In particular, intentions can affect body water at quantum criticality
optimally. At quantum criticality phases with several values of Planck constant hef f /h = n
are present and correspond to dark matter which is the key player in TGD inspired model
of living systems. As already noticed, the dark portion of water would be maximal at
physiological temperature.
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2. In the system studied by Emoto the subject person and water must form an entangled
quantum critical system. Water - or rather, the MB of water - must have part of it in
hef f /h = n dark phase becoming in certain sense part of subject person. Magnetic flux
tubes connecting subject person to a sample of water (or of rice and water) and carrying
dark matter would serve as correlates of attention.
What might be called loving attention would provide metabolic energy to the target and
might be essential element in generating the dark phase giving rise to the beautiful crystal
patterns. hef f /h = n can be seen as kind of universal IQ: the more the system contains
subsystems with large n, the higher its ability to generate conscious information, negentropy,
is.
Therefore choosing randomly a subject person who just says a word with positive or negative
meaning but without emotion might not be enough to reproduce Emotos findings. It is
also quite possible that the outcome of the experiment is a realization of subject person’s
intention/desire to have the desired effect. This would not however reduce the profound
implications of the findings of Emoto if they are true.
3. Thanks to the presence of dark portion of water, super-cooled water is quantum critical
system in TGD Universe. In supercooling the temperature can become considerably lower
than in the usual freezing and means that also the dark portion of water stays dark. This
dark portion would react to the intentions of subject person. The crystal structures would
serve as kind of photograph is of the representations of mental images of the system subject
person + dark portion of water.
Remark: Water normally freezes at 273.15 K (0 ◦ C), but it can be supercooled at standard
pressure down to its crystal homogeneous nucleation at almost 224.8 K.
What about the effects of music and even visual pictures on water? Also these effects are
in principle possible and would rely on universal representation of emotions in living matter at
molecular and maybe even at higher levels. Since music represents and creates emotions, the
natural assumption is that the collection of allowed 3-chords express emotions both at the molecular
level and at the level of MB.
1. The resonant interaction by 3-chords made of photons is possible between any pair formed by
taking given member to be either DNA, RNA, tRNA or its dark variant. Dark counterparts of
AAs would couple resonantly to the frequencies defined as sums of the frequencies of 3-chords.
These dark variants of bio-molecules are present also in water if TGD based explanation of
Pollack effect is correct. One actually ends up to a model for prebiotic evolution involving
dark nuclei made from dark proton sequences in an essential manner [L10, L12](see http:
//tinyurl.com/yalny39x and http://tinyurl.com/yd5t82gq).
2. The frequencies of visible light are rather high for the ordinary value of Planck constant.
The original motivation for the hierarchy of Planck constants was the finding that ELF em
fields have quantal effects on living matter [J1]. This led to a proposal in which bio-photons
at visible and UV frequencies are dark photons at ELF frequencies transformed to ordinary
photons [K6]. Also the reverse transformation taking ordinary photons to dark photons is
possible so that dark matter - dark variants of AAs responding resonantly to single frequency
- at the flux tubes can “see”.
3. The effect of words expressing positive emotions would initiate metabolism based on fermen-
tation. The spoken words must serve as encouraging of dis-encouraging control signal just
as music of light. The meaning of the words should be same for the subject person and the
system rice + water. This can be the case if the systems entangle to single system via flux
tube bridges.
This relates interestingly to the theory of Russian biologist Peter Gariaev based on the
assumption that genes define a language in rather concrete sense [I10, I8, I7]. I have developed
these ideas from TGD point of view in [L12] (see http://tinyurl.com/yd5t82gq): dark
variants of genes identified as dark proton sequences - essentially dark variants of nuclei -
define a universal language.
MATHEMATICS 8
4. In the model the 3-chords in question are made of light. In the case of music as we understand
it they would be made of sound. In living matter sounds can be transformed to em oscillations
by piezo-electric effect. The resulting em oscillations would be accompanied by both ordinary
and dark photons, and both the 3-chords and melody of the music would couple to dark dark
proton triplets at flux tubes serving as counterparts of DNA, RNA, tRNA, and AAs. If the
same mechanism is involved with Emoto’s experiments, the sounds should transform to light
or they should induce at flux tubes vibrations - dark phonons - at the same frequencies that
realize the representation of biomolecules and their dark variants as 3-chords.
Remark: In TGD Universe physical state as a collection of particles is replaced with a
network of flux tubes having particles at its nodes [L5] (see http://tinyurl.com/y9kwnqfa).
Therefore sound as vibrations of the length of flux tube accompanied by fermionic string
connecting pair of nodes becomes fundamental excitation rather than something emerging
only at condensed matter physics.
Ugly crystals are assigned with negative emotions and emotions are assigned with harmonies.
Harmonies - also those, which are sad (consider only passions of Bach) - are however usually
thought of as something beautiful. Can negative emotions really correspond to any bio-harmonies
characterized by symmetries. In a discussion with Sini Kunnas I realized that also the notion of
disharmony could make sense. There are indeed 6 Hamiltonian cycles without any symmetries
[A2, A3, A1]. I neglected them in the model of harmony because they would represent which
one might call disharmony. Could one of the contributing 3 Hamiltonian cycles in bio-harmony
correspond to this kind of dis-harmony and bring in 20 3-chords without any symmetries? If so the
relationship between geometry and aesthetics would become very concrete. The alternative view
would be that there are several harmonies realized simultaneously and thi creates disharmony.
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