Water has memory.

Why talk about your brain?

Water memory is something homeopathists have been pushing in a last desperate attempt to save their money making scam from permanent demolition by science. However that notion didn't survive examination by James Randi years ago.

Sylvia.

ISTR there was some old nonsense a while back claiming if you shouted insults at a glass of water and froze it, the crystals would be stressed in a way that un-shouted at water doesn't when frozen. I can't recall the exact details but that was the gist of it.

Water draining from a sink tends to swirl clockwise here. I read a Scientific American piece, a long time ago, that water in a sink can swirl the opposite way if stirred a bit first, and can remember the direction for hours. Haven't tried that myself.

Presumably this is a self-ironic post? Please tell me you are just having fun at Skybuck's expense. It's difficult to tell with you sometimes.

The SA article was serious. There is some positive-feedback mechanism in draining a sink, residual swirling decays slowly with time, and a sink full or water can remember the direction. I think they used an idealized, cylindrical sink to get hours of memory. Coriolus is pretty weak at this scale; it takes a gyrocompass hours to align.

I guess someone could look it up.

I know sir! It's called "momentum".

Does RAM have memory? It stays in its preset state for ever, perhaps with some maintenance, until changed. Just like swirling water, or apples placed on a shelf.

If suitably managed water doesn't have memory, neither does RAM.

Sometimes a DRAM can remember for a long time at zero Vcc.

SRAMs too.

You say that the Coriolis force is "weak at this scale" - it is utterly negligible at this scale. If you sneeze while draining the sink, the effect will be far greater. And yet you write "Water draining from a sink tends to swirl clockwise here" as though your position on the earth is relevant.

Water does /not/ have a memory. Currents flowing within water can circulate for a good while, and on a very symmetrical sink then even small currents can have an influence on the direction a drain swirl forms.

And even if there were some mystical voodoo causing the water to "remember" which way it was flowing down the drain, that is not the kind of "water memory" that Skybuck and the homeopaths talk about. Their "hypothesis" is that water can remember the shape of molecules that were dissolved in it, and that this remembered shape can have an effect like medicine.

RAM works by physical displacement of electric charge. If you want to say that water poured from a jug into a glass has memory because it remembers it is in the glass and not the jug, then yes - water has memory.

Or if you want to call the momentum of currents in the water memory, then water has memory - until the momentum is lost and the water has "forgotten".

You just keep topping it up, like Mercury delay-line memory, or DRAM.

Does a computer have memory? Yes, but does it have memories?

You make a good case that Random Access Memory doesn't have memory.

Corn syrup has memory. This video shows information stored in corn syrup being encrypted, then unencrypted again. If you could build the right apparatus, you could do that around multiple axes.

Here is another hint:

This hypothesis and experimental evidence comes from a nobel prize winner !

Perhaps now you will take it more seriously !

HAHA on YOU ! =D

It is also DNA related, possibly RNA related and therefore possibly CORONA related !

Bye, Skybuck.

Being awarded a Nobel prize for work (or the work of one's research students) in one field does not automatically make the recipient an expert in anything else.

John

One who seems to have gone gaga, back in 2009.

Nobody took him seriously back in 2009

The egg is all over your face.

But predominantly twaddle related, as we'd expect from the group's type example of the gullible twit.