This post looks at the ‘water engine’ described by Gerald Pollack in his book The Fourth Phase of Water. The explanation from Pollack that the flow is driven by forces within the tube arising from the action of EZ water and ion-pressure is criticised and an alternative hypothesis given which regards the phenomenon as consisting of the entirety of the flow within the container. Such a flow arises from the natural formation of a global electromagnetic field structure which permeates the whole body of fluid and organises individual water molecules into an overall toroidal flow pattern.
Researchers at Pollack’s lab placed a capillary tube into a water bath and found that water began to flow spontaneously through the tube with no obvious driving mechanism. How does this happen?
We found that immersing tubes made of hydrophilic materials into water produces flow through those tubes, similar to blood flow through blood vessels. The driving energy comes from the radiant energy absorbed and stored in the water. Nothing more. Flow may persist undiminished for many hours, even days. Additional incident light brings faster flow. This is not a perpetual motion machine: incident radiant energy drives the flow — in much the same way that it drives vascular flow in plants. And, we have fresh evidence .. that it also assists the heart in driving blood in the cardiovascular system. – Gerald Pollack
A short clip of the actual experiment is to be found here:
Pollack’s hypothesis
After absorbing incident radiant energy, water molecules at the interfacial region break apart (as in the first step of photosynthesis) . The OH− groups coalesce to form the EZ (exclusion zone), a highly ordered, negatively charged zone, forming adjacent to the interface, while the complementary H+ components are released into the core of the tube. The core thereby acquires high positive charge. That positive charge creates a gradient with the uncharged external bath beyond the tube’s exits, driving a flow down the gradient, one way or the other depending on which end dominates
The scheme is shown here in a flared tube which highlights the proton ‘pressure’ gradient, but nevertheless seems to work even if the sides are parallel.
Problems with the EZ explanation
- The totality of the flow is not considered, only the local tubular flow. This is important as the water exiting the tube must somehow produce sufficient force to make it all the way round to the input at the other end.
- The flow depends upon the continual release of protons from the EZ layer as the layer is built. The EZ layer cannot build indefinitely, but the flow itself is said to continue indefinitely.
- The idea of protons being ‘released’ from a strongly charged negative layer suggests that it is the most natural thing in the world for a positively charged particle to move away from a strong negative charge and, moreover, that it has been trying to do so for some time. This is not the case.
- Even if protons are ejected somehow from the EZ layer, they are still adjacent to it and still subject to a strong electric field; they should be attracted to such a field.
- It is inconsistent to attribute the action of the protons to a repulsive force between themselves whilst ignoring the attractive force between the protons and the EZ layer.
- No mechanism is described by means of which infra red light can build hexagonal water.
A slight reformulation of the problem
The problem is described as one of how to describe self-generating flow in a tube but what we actually see is the spontaneous organisation of an entire tank of water into an overall vortex flow which guides the fluid towards the entrance to the tube, along the tube towards the exit and then away from the tube and around the tank to complete the cycle.
A hypothesis based upon vortex physics
The overall flow is to be considered and takes the form of a torus similar to that seen in the image of the apple, above. The water flows through the tube at the centre and upon exiting, flows in an organised fashion around the whole container driven by local electromagnetic forces only which continue to direct flow back into the tube on the left of the picture.
Incoming energy is transduced at each point in the container and amalgamated into the overall toroidal flow which self-organises around the central tube, the ‘core’ of the flow into a dynamic vortex structure.
Flow outside the tube is powered locally by a toroidal electromagnetic field which flows inwards towards the central tube where it forms magneto-electric ring vortices which propagate within the material of the tube itself and whose outer reaches serve to drive the fluid within the tube and help form the exclusion zone.
We need to look at some supporting evidence for this before revisiting it in greater detail. We will show:
- Vortex movement is typical in fluids and gases and is associated with electric fields
- The movement of water is in the same direction as the electric field movement
- The organisation of the electric vortex field precedes the movement of the water molecules
- Energy transduces freely between heat, infrared radiation and kinetic vortex movement
- A ‘seed’ structure within water can easily propagate throughout a much larger volume
- Electric field movement and kinetic movement of matter are synonymous at the atomic scale
A ‘seed’ structure
A bottle of water can be cooled to well below freezing temperature but still remain as a liquid. If the bottle is given a knock or if a crystal of ice is placed in it, the water will rapidly freeze, with the ice formation spreading out rapidly from the nucleation site.
Some ‘signal’ is spreading throughout the liquid and promoting some alternate organisation of the water molecules thereby forming the ice crystals. The signal is an electromagnetic field as there is nothing else on offer. The signal is not pure ‘information’ but a de facto mechanism for restructuring the liquid into a solid.
The hypothesis for the water engine will say that the tube inserted into the tank acts as a ‘seed’ to promote the restructuring of all of the water in the tank by first creating a toroidal electromagnetic field structure and thence the rearrangement of actual molecules to allow for the kinetic motion.
Energy transduction in water vortices
In one experiment described in Gerald’s book: The Fourth Phase of Water, a glass of water is stirred and the temperature is taken before and after. As more energy is added via the stirring, the temperature of the water drops by several degrees. This is counter to most expectations.
The stirring has promoted vortices and this has somehow sequestered heat energy into some fractal vortex field. Water molecules are said to be continually spinning via the movement of their hydrogen ions at least and so this is where the energy must be going.
An electromagnetic vortex field has been formed by the stirring and energy in such fields forms a fractal cascade towards smaller and smaller scales allowing the storage of potentially large amounts of energy.
However, the spinning hydrogen ions and electron shells at the molecular levels have their own local electric fields which cannot exist independently of the global vortex structure. They must be affected (organised) by such a structure and in turn must contribute to it. Kinetic movement and field movement are therefore almost synonymous at this scale.
Tornado formation
Mainstream opinion is that tornado and hurricane formation is solely a kinetic affair, with energy supplied to molecules via heat differences between land and sea casing the molecules to form strong vortex patterns giving rise to structures we observe.
Many advocates of the Electric Universe model, however, are of the opinion that much energy comes from the sun in the form of magnetic flux ropes, solar filaments or electromagnetic Birkeland currents and it is this energy that is responsible for the formation of the phenomena we see.
We can easily accommodate both views if we allow that energy may well come from heat differences and convection but that the vortex streams from the sun are the primary organisers of the rotary structures for the tornadoes. Electromagnetic fields form vortex structures of themselves and organise the kinetic movement of air via electromagnetic forces into actual tornadoes.
Energy accumulates centripetally according to the laws of electromagnetism and a strong vortex ‘radius’ or tornado ‘wall’ forms. Electromagnetic discharge in the form of lightning confirms a link between kinetic motion and electromagnetic field motion.
The vortex patterns of air and electromagnetic fields are identical, the movement of the air following the movement of the field.
The air moves faster towards the vortex radius and, coincident with this, we see a temperature drop and the formation of hailstorms. Heat energy has either been sequestered somewhere or has been transduced into vortex form and is actually driving the accelerating wind vortex.
Helical flow as a response to acoustic waves
Water needs little encouragement to flow in spiral formations, whether it be whirlpools or helices as we can see in the video below.
The energy for the water stream comes from gravity, but a small, barely perceptible impulse causes the water to flow in a striking helical pattern. There is no ‘information’ as such in the sound waves to structure the water this way and so the water itself is self-organizing into a helical flow in response to the stimulus.
Very little extra energy is being introduced into the system, but existing energy is somehow encouraged to organise itself by the stimulus. Classical molecules by themselves cannot behave in this fashion and hence some global ‘field’ is responsible for the regularity.
An alternative model for the atom (Meyl)
Konstantin Meyl describes a gaseous oxygen molecule as having the inner electron shell as having inverted somewhat to appear on the outside of the atom as seen below. Each electron is a pure electromagnetic field structure which rotates both of itself and around the nucleus at the same time.
Liquid state water molecules can be supposed to be similar to this but with the addition of two orbiting hydrogen ions which themselves rotate.
All this rotation amounts to a de facto electromagnetic vortex field and de facto source of energy. Movement of such a field is synonymous now with kinetic movement and needs minimal organisation in order to do something interesting.
An alternative model of a photon (Meyl)
The classical photon is a point particle with no volume or mass and so no physical presence in reality. Trying to understand how such an entity is converted to kinetic energy for example is a losing battle and so scientists will simply say that it is so and that energy is conserved somehow.
This is wholly inadequate and a better formulation of a photon comes from Konstantin Meyl who describes it as a pair of leapfrogging electromagnetic field vortices – see video below.
These entities have a physical description in terms of Maxwell’s equations and a ‘frequency’ arising from the leapfrogging motion. They have physical dimensions and a discrete quantum of energy arising from the field motion.
Any such phenomena will interact with another electromagnetic field structure in accordance with the existing laws of electromagnetism.
The hypothesis in detail
A container of water is at ‘rest’ but there is much movement at the molecular level with spinning electron shells, rotating hydrogen ions and some sort of vibration representing ‘heat energy’.
The water is full of electromagnetic vortex energy, but as yet it this consists of only local vortices at the atomic scale with no global organisation.
A hydrophilic capillary tube is placed within the container and as a consequence of its shape and conductive properties, acts as a seed for the propagation of an organisational effect through the water.
The propagation is that of an electromagnetic field and so happens at close to the speed of light. No external input of energy is required at this stage as all that is happening is that the existing electromagnetic field vortices are becoming electromagnetically aligned according to a global vortex pattern.
Rotational field energy which was once random and produced no average kinetic motion is now organised according to a vortex system and is now having additive effects and thereby producing movement in the water system as a whole.
The whole system has become electromagnetically aligned in an instant and in accordance with the laws of electrodynamics. It now starts to initiate kinetic movement in an overall toroidal flow. Movement is now of ‘matter’ and so inertia comes into play but the flow nevertheless seems to start almost immediately and everywhere at once; no portion of water is seen to be ‘pushing’ another in an obvious manner.
The water molecules are aligned in ‘propitiously’ and contain their own internal energy system in the form of rotational field motion. It is this energy that is translated to linear movement of matter at every molecule in the system. We do not therefore have a small volume of water in a capillary tube pushing around large volumes of water in the tank, but instead, a large volume of water organises to move a small but powerful stream into the tube. Guided by the electromagnetic field, all the water in the entire system starts to move under its own energy and all at the same time.
The field is dynamic; it flows towards the tube where energy builds up and adopts the form of a magnetic ring vortex, whereupon it will travel inside the material of the tube itself before discharging at the exit, into the water bath.
The movement of matter is initiated by the electric torus field already formed, with molecules moving in a vortex pattern, towards the opening of the central tube and dutifully queueing up before entering.
The system is working as observed but still some energy is wasted and so a net input of energy is required to sustain permanent flow.
The input energy is in the form of photons as described above. These photons are of various frequencies and whilst some will pass straight through the water to little effect, others will be absorbed by the ambient vortex field and their energy distributed throughout the flow to enhance its strength and integrity.
We now no longer have to describe how electromagnetic wave energy is somehow transduced to the movement of matter as everything is now described as a single electromagnetic vortex field. Photon, molecule and field are now all a single energetic substance and all with a single ‘intent’ which is to amalgamate into the overall self-organising electromagnetic flow.
Pollack mentions that the rate of flow through the capillary tube increases as the diameter of the tube decreases. This may make sense if the mechanism of flow is related to what happens inside the tube but it is also consistent with the above hypothesis. The flow is driven by the entirety of the body of water and is hence independent of the diameter of the tube. A narrower tube will necessarily lead to faster flow in order to transport a comparable amount of water through a narrower channel in the same time interval.
The exclusion zone
In Gerald Pollack’s description, the exclusion zone is caused by a hexagonal water structure and is fundamental as a cause of the flow. In the description above, however, this zone is incidental to the flow and not causal.
An electromagnetic field is the main organisational and motivational element and so it is here that we must look for an explanation.
The capillary tube itself is an ideal conduit for the flow of some sort of ring vortex whether it be electrically aligned with the tube or magnetically aligned. Field movement within the tube doubtless induces field movement within and around the tube and it follows that it is this movement which somehow promotes both the movement of the water and the centripetal accumulation of nano-particles within the tube.
The exact mechanism by which the particles move remains mysterious but several authors point to simple diffusion mechanisms as being sufficient.
Konstantin Meyl
Meyl, in his book Potential vortex vol. 5 gives two hypotheses for the exclusion zone:
- The zone contains such a strong negative charge that a layer consisting entirely of electrons is to be considered.
- The zone does in fact consist of hexagonally structured hydrogen and oxygen molecules but held together by the magnetic dipole forces arising from spinning electrons.
In neither case is it explained why such structures should arise in the first place and nor is any empirical evidence supplied of the actual existence of a hexagonal structure.
The water engine as a driver for blood flow
The water engine can easily be seen as a primitive circulatory system.
In the interpretation above, the water is not driven centrally by a pump, but instead, incoming energy is transduced directly into kinetic movement at every point in the fluid. The water adopts a toroidal flow pattern without any apparent guide and is driven by the basic laws of physics. This is a highly efficient and reliable mechanism; the circulation does not depend upon a mechanical pump and water will continue to flow as long as there is an energy input.
In the development of a chick embryo, input of infra red energy speeds up the flow and the rounded shape of the egg is ideal for the development of toroidal flow. Blood has been seen to circulate before the heart starts to beat and even before it has developed.
Circulation of the blood begins even before the arterial system has formed and the blood vessels are seen to develop from the existing flow and not the other way around. In other words the flow pre-exists the physical structures that will eventually guide it.
This is good evidence that the whole development is initiated by a toroidal field structure such as happens with the water engine. Energy is transduced and accumulated to form the tissues that will eventually become blood vessels. Vascular morphogenesis The morphogenesis of capillaries
The basic structure of the flow continues even after the physical blood vessels have formed, with the heart being driven largely by the blood flow and not the other way around: The Heart is not a Pump The Heart and Circulation
The origins of life
If sunlight should shine on a restricted volume of water then no doubt convection currents would appear and an overall toroidal flow would emerge; even without the central tube to guide the flow this will happen. Incident energy will be transduced and will contribute towards the flow.
We already have energy transduction and accumulation. We already have a self-organising and self-regulating system of continuous toroidal flow of both energy and water. We already have both circulatory system and a primitive metabolism.
If minerals or other particles are caught up in the flow then they are transported inwards towards the vortex centre where the energy is at a maximum and where the possibility of some sort of biological transmutation is greatest. See: Transmutation
Energy supply is continuous and regulated via the vortex principle; material transport is centripetal. These are the initial requirements for the initial construction of a self-replicating cell structure.
Remarks
The hypothesis given above may seem highly unlikely indeed from the point of view of classical physics but from the perspective of vortex physics is pretty much the behaviour of water that we expect.
In classical physics, electric fields are either static or sinusoidal and molecules are incapable of self-organisation. Transmutation of energy is unexplained and fluids require the application of an external force in order to initiate movement. Such a force may be in the form of gravity, pressure or an external electromagnetic field, but none of these is relevant to this experiment.
What we have is an internal energy supply in the form of the rotation of electromagnetic ‘molecules’ which self-organises to produce its own flow around the container via movement at the molecular scale according to local forces only.
The idea that force and matter are separate entities and that the one acts upon the other is a crippling assumption here and needs to be discarded.
‘Movement’ is the result of ‘field interaction’ at every point in space and in this respect is similar to the action of gravity, where the nature of the field results in an inevitable directional acceleration through the field. The mass of an object is irrelevant to the acceleration under gravity which suggests action upon every single molecule or atom almost simultaneously.
Comparison with gravity
The hypothesis above is reminiscent of the hypothesis for the movement of matter by a gravitational field. See: Gravity as an inertial field In both cases movement can be described as ‘inertial’ in nature, with the field operating upon each and every atom at the same time, making the movement independent of any external forces and independent of the volume of matter involved in the movement.
No pressure wave is seen to be pushing the water around and it appears to move spontaneously of its own ‘will’. One way of understanding biological systems is to regard such behaviour as fundamental in the same way that gravity is regarded as fundamental in physics. The difficulties of understanding the mechanism at the molecular level are thereby circumvented and the phenomena of blood flow, morphogenesis, development and energy transport in living systems now have a common basis in physical reality.
References
Surface-induced flow: A natural microscopic engine using infrared energy as fuel – Li, Pollack
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba0941#core-R17-1
The fourth phase of water (video) – Pollack
https://youtu.be/i-T7tCMUDXU?t=1233
The fourth phase of water (book) – Pollack
Potential vortex, newly discovered properties of the electric field
are fundamentally changing our view of the physical world – Konstantin Meyl
https://www.meyl.eu/go/indexb830.html
The relevant video
Part 2: Respiration of gas from the air – Konstantin Meyl
https://www.k-meyl.de/go/27_Videos/water_motor_theory_EN_pt2.mp4
PDF version
Die-Covid-Falle – Konstantin Meyl
https://mainz.world/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Die-Covid-Falle.pdf
Exclusion Zone Phenomena in Water—A Critical Review of Experimental Findings and Theories -Elton et al.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7404113/
Potential vortex vol.5: Gas and Water – Konstantin Meyl
https://www.k-meyl.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=79
The Heart and Circulation: An Integrative Model
Author: Branko Furst
ISBN-10 : 144715276X
ISBN-13 : 978-1447152767
The Heart and Circulation: an Integrative Model – Branko Furst
The introduction to the book
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm:978-1-4471-5277-4/1.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288981713_The_Heart_and_Circulation_-_An_Integrative_Model
From chaos to order in active fluids – Alexander Morozov
https://people.brandeis.edu/~kuntawu/Publications/Science_355_eaal1979_2017/Science_355_1262_2017.pdf