This is probably the "trippiest" thing I have ever written. Bear with me.
According to thoughtco, there are 1.5 sextillion molecules in a drop of water (0.05 ml), which equals out to about 5 sextillion atoms per droplet. These are, of course, nonsense numbers. They hardly mean anything to us. But, it goes, of course, from million to billion to trillion to quadrillion to quintillion to sextillion. Technically, I think a 'sextillion' can qualify as a 'zillion.'
Inside the drop of water, the molecular bonds are constantly breaking and reforming as they rush past one another. The lifetime of the bonds between molecules is short due to its constant movement. This means that water essentially is constantly breaking and reforming in its journeys, and the hydrogen and oxygen atoms even end up exchanging atoms as the molecules dissociate.
The kinetic energy of water is part of the process of dissolution.
When a crystal of sodium chloride is placed into water, the water's molecules collide with the crystal lattice. Recall that the crystal lattice is composed of alternating positive and negative ions. Water is attracted to the sodium chloride crystal because water is polar and has both a positive and a negative end. The positively charged sodium ions in the crystal attract the oxygen end of the water molecules because they are partially negative. The negatively charged chloride ions in the crystal attract the hydrogen end of the water molecules because they are partially positive. The action of the polar water molecules takes the crystal lattice apart (see image below).
After coming apart from the crystal, the individual ions are then surrounded by solvent particles in a process called solvation.
Water is often called the 'universal solvent' because throughout nature and within our bodies it is constantly attracting and dissolving many different types of molecules. It acts as a solvent for not for nonpolar ones.
Regardless, it's easy to see that water is constantly at work, constantly forming and restrucuring...
And these nonsense, giant number of water molecules in a single droplet are very meaningful...
These little droplets form great bodies of water, and when the droplets enter, they form the teeming surge that is water. They constantly form new bonds with other molecules and flow, saying goodbye to one another and carrying on their long journey through the cosmos...
And so what does it mean when a woman has a fertilized egg that fails to implant... and we have an ensouled life that does not "enter" the world? What does it mean for the baby in the womb that sadly perishes before it becomes a newborn?
It means that they knew a microcosm within their mother, and through the interaction this interaction they leave behind their traces written in water, the recordless universal witness & interpenetrator.
The Bible speaks of this:
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1 John 5:6-8)
The tiny soul in the tiny body of the embyro was an Existent whose miniscule form is adequate, as its dissolution into the greater whole and experience upon earth is a powerful demonstration of the concept of life's interpenetration...
For its mark dissolves and flows through the world, as the blood and the water in the arena of our struggles.
Perhaps this cannot be seen easily from a materialistic perspective in terms of its significance, but it is indisputable that, on the molecular level, we are in a constant, shifting state of interbeing & interflowing, and it is this flowing through one another through commonality of substance and matter that illustrates the profundity of any form of life, no matter how temporary.
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