Saturday, February 18, 2012

Can Motion Assist in Changing Water Vapor Into Liquid Water?

Water differs from every other resource (except, maybe, air) in that water is the only resource that needs motion to maintain its authenticity. Water's need to be in motion is so great that water seems self-driven to move - movement is ingrained in water; talking about water implies talking about something that is always moving.
Still Waters Run Deep
Rocks revealed in a flowing river
Source - alaska-in-pictures.com
Still Water
Source - me.ncrs.usda.org
This proverb commonly means that a person showing a calm exterior should be handled with caution because the calmness does not reveal anything (positive or negative; good or bad; liked or disliked) about that person. This proverb's origin is the observation that moving water reveals a lot about what's in the water while stagnant water does not reveal any information and, thus, anything dangerous will not be known.
Stagnant water
Source - warrencountymosquito.org
Stagnant water holds a severe risk to health of humans. Living hazards (to humans) breed profusely in water that is not in motion.
We seem to be programmed to avoid stagnant water through its impact on our senses: stagnant water is cloudy and we cannot see what's in it; stagnant water has a foul smell; We can also usually see dirt and debris on the surface of a body of stagnant water
Whirlpools
Water never moves in a straight line especially when flowing through narrow paths. Water molecules seem to fight each other to move into the space that a molecule in front of them vacates as it moves forward. 
A top view of a Whirlpool
Source - dailymail.co.uk
This "fight" between water molecules, to move into the vacant space before them, somehow initiates the spinning motion unique to a whirlpool. Whirlpools occur in lakes, in rivers, in virtually every body of water. All that is required is for the water to be moving. This movement most commonly occurs under the influence of gravity.
A Whirlpool as it appears from below
Source - spiralwishingwells.com
And doesn't the underside of a whirlpool look too much like a tornado?
Moving between States
Motion Changes Water between solid,liquid and vapor
Source - rmbel.info
Earth's Water Cycle uses motion to transform water between its three states: solid, liquid and vapor. 


Can we utilize movement to change water vapor in the air we breathe into liquid form whenever and wherever we choose to do so?

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