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When the sun breaks through, people feel wonderful. You’re getting the energy from this light that you may be missing.
right before me. You are getting energy from the environment. We tend to discount it, but it is always there. Plants, for example, do this all the time. Where do plants get their energy? They absorb light. The light supplies the energy for photosynthesis, and photosynthesis is chemical energy. The light is transformed into chemical energy, which is responsible for plant metabo- lism, growth, bending and basically everything.
The first step is the splitting of water. The creation of EZ water is exactly that—the split- ting of water into negative and positive. What we’ve discovered is a generic form of the first step of photosynthesis. It is what plants do, and I argue that we do the same thing. We exploit energy from the environment, so you don’t need to do anything. If you just sit there as a blob, you get all this energy that’s coming in. Of course, you can enhance it, for example, by going into the sauna. Even ordinary sunlight has plenty of this energy. Where I live, in Seattle, it is cloudy in the winter almost every day. When the sun breaks through, people feel wonderful. You’re getting the energy from this light that you may be missing.
HG: Explain to me more about what you were saying about charges and how charges attract and why that’s important.
GP: It is a real paradox. I give talks pretty often because The Fourth Phase of Water book has be- come really popular. I stand up there, and I like casual talks where we can be almost conversing. Sometimes I ask the audience the following question. “If you take one negative charge, one molecule or whatever that’s negatively charged from your left pocket and one that’s similarly negatively charged from your right pocket, and you drop them into a glass of water, and they
are close enough that they can feel one another, and they both have the same negative charge, what happens to the distance between them?” Of course, everyone is sure of the answer, although few will raise their hands because they sense there is some kind of trick there and they don’t want to expose their inability at physics. They hesitate a bit, but finally they answer, usually gesturing with their hands that the two negative charges will push one another apart. The feeling is, “Of course, everyone knows that.” However, the answer is that they come together!
This is not something that we in our labo- ratory discovered, but we’ve confirmed it. It’s actually been known for hundreds of years. Some of the greats in physical chemistry are the ones that saw it first. These people were puzzled. How is it possible? Everyone knows that objects of like charge repel each other, so the distance should increase—but actually it decreases. This question was taken up by physicist Richard Feynman, considered to be the Einstein of the second half of the twenti- eth century. Feynman was a Nobel laureate, prolific author (including author of a popular three-volume compilation of undergraduate lectures), and the hero of every physicist and all graduate students in physics, at least in the U.S. Feynman called the phenomenon that we are discussing “like likes like” because the two like charges come together and obviously must like each other if they come together. Think about people who like each other—they don’t stay apart, they come together. It was kind of amusing. He said that “like likes like” because of an “intermediate of unlike.”
Now what does that mean? It means that you’ve got these two negatively charged blobs sitting not too far from one another. In between them, positive charges gather. Those in-between
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