A fairly remarkable book on water is The Hidden Messages in Water, by Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto. Here is an excerpt, so you can see the far-out things he has discovered:

As the temperature of frozen water rises and the ice starts to melt, crystals emerge for just twenty or thirty seconds.

I take photographs of these crystals, and they have proved to be extremely eloquent, expressing a profound philosophy. The truths of the cosmos take shape and become visible in these crystals, if only for a few moments. This short window of time gives us a glimpse into a world that is indeed magical.

How I take photographs of crystals
Let me explain how I go about taking photographs of crystals.

I put fifty different types of water in fifty different Petri dishes. I then freeze the dishes at –20 degrees C (–4 degrees F) for three hours in a freezer. The result is that the surface tension forms drops of ice in the Petri dishes about one millimetre across. The crystal appears when you shine a light on the crown of the drop of ice.

Of course, the result is never fifty similar crystals, and sometimes no crystals at all are formed. When we graphed the formation of the crystals, we realized that different water formed different crystals. Some of them were clearly similar, some were deformed, and in some types of water, no crystals at all formed.

First I looked at the crystals of tap water from different locations. The water of Tokyo was a disaster – not a single complete crystal was formed. Tap water includes a dose of chlorine used to sanitize it, utterly destroying the structure found in natural water.

However, within natural water, no matter where it came from – natural springs, underground rivers, glaciers, and the upper reaches of rivers – complete crystals formed.

The effects of music on water
My efforts to photograph ice crystals and conduct research began to move ahead. Then one day the researcher – who was as caught up in the project as I – said something completely out of the blue: ‘Let’s see what happens when we expose the water to music.’

I knew that it was possible for the vibrations of music to have an effect on the water. I myself enjoy music immensely, and as a child had even had hopes of becoming a professional musician, and so I was all in favour of this off-the-wall experiment.

At first we had no idea what music we would use and under what conditions we would conduct the experiment. But after considerable trial and error, we reached the conclusion that the best method was probably the simplest – put a bottle of water on a table between two speakers and expose it to a volume at which a person might normally listen to music. We would also need to use the same water that we had used in previous experiments.

We first tried distilled water from a drugstore.

The results astounded us. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, with its bright and clear tones, resulted in beautiful and well-formed crystals. Mozart’s 40th Symphony, a graceful prayer to beauty, created crystals that were delicate and elegant. And the crystals formed by exposure to Chopin’s Etude in E, Op. 10, No. 3, surprised us with their lovely detail.

All the classical music that we exposed the water to resulted in well-formed crystals with distinct characteristics. In contrast, the water exposed to violent heavy-metal music resulted in fragmented and malformed crystals at best.

It gets much, much more mind-bending. Here is a link to some of his photos:

http://www.thank-water.net/english/index.html
 

review by MichaelS (from NutritionCircle)