Proof that water is wet

[Thrillhouse]

Okay, prove me right.

 

[Phoenyx]

Okay, prove me right.

Since You made the statement it falls on you to prove it.

 

[Chantal Marchon]

hmm, seems to me that that would fall under that category of basic chemical construction- But- the word water came before the description of wet. So this arguement is a bit like the chicken and the egg.

Or if a man is walking through the woods and there is no one to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

[Phoenyx]

The question of why is water wet cannot be answered with regular science methodology, but can be answered in Zen Physics. Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.

 

[Monazwx]

Or if a man is walking through the woods and there is no one to hear him, is he still wrong?

Yes.

 

[Chantal Marchon]

The question of why is water wet cannot be answered with regular science methodology, but can be answered in Zen Physics. Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.

Wetness brings totally different pictures into my mind.

And if you have the right kind of shoes, a little water won't land you on your ass.

In regular chemistry water is wet because of the nature of its chemical bond and the way it is formed. It has a very loose structure that allows movement where as glass has a crystaline structure that is very rigid. Technically, even if something is solid but does not have a crystaline style molecular structure it is still a liquid.