λ | ω | h2o ~ waves ~ frequencies ~ water

Up to 60%of the human body is water, the brain is composed of 70% water, and the lungs are nearly 90% water. About 83% of our blood is water, which helps digest our food, transport waste, and control body temperature. Each day humans must replace 2.4 liters of water, some through drinking and the rest taken by the body from the foods eaten. Available fresh water amounts to less than half of 1% of all the water on Earth. The rest is seawater or polar ice. Fresh water is renewable only by rainfall.

Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years - more than twice the rate of human population growth. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people on Earth already lack access to fresh drinking water. If current trends persist, by 2025 the demand for fresh water will rise by 56 percent and as many as two-thirds of the world's population will be living with serious water shortages or absolute water scarcity.

Ganges: Holy River of Pollution: raw sewage, rotting carcasses, unburnt and partially burnt human and animal corpses, industrial toxic waste, fertilizers and pesticides that infect the river

WATER BOWLS: moon~drop~sound~oil Premiering at the New Media festival in Beijing, June 10 th

Water Technology Research (WaTeR) Center at LA Develop new and economical alternative sources Of potable, irrigation and consumptive water uses

MOON

Work in progress: moon

Mutant bacteria

DROP

Strident disharmony in the symphony of classical mechanics yet strangely familiar – played as it were on the same instrument. Erwin Schrödinger: wave mechanics Molecular communication through stochastic synchronization induced by exracellular fluctuations

Gold atoms Electron standing waves Atoms make waves

Next : J. Polchinski Image 3 Up : J. Polchinski Image List Previous : J. Polchinski Image 1 J. Polchinski Image 3J. Polchinski Image ListJ. Polchinski Image 1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. University of Cambridge Next : J. Polchinski Image 3 Up : J. Polchinski Image List Previous : J. Polchinski Image 1 J. Polchinski Image 3J. Polchinski Image ListJ. Polchinski Image 1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. University of Cambridge J. Polchinski M Theory Cosmology In string theory, each fundamental particle is created in some sense by different patterns of vibration of the stringsvibration

10  m Yeast and Fibroblast Cells Make tiny Sound Waves life is mainly nothing in side the atoms is empty space

Cell sonics: yeast in water

Standing Waves: Fiber Optic Interferometer

Modes 1-d and 2-d

Dark side of the cell

SOLITONS Wave of Translation

The wavefunction expands In a hundred years we have increased the amount of electromagnetic signals on the planets surface 100 million times Electro-pollution is invisible – the smog of human tele-communication

SOUND

"water will be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th." Who owns water and how much they are able to charge for it will become the question of the century. The privatization of water is already a $400-billion-a-year business. Fortune Magazine

OIL

Work in progress

Collaborators Tyler Adams: sound John Houck: moon Eric Hoek: nano filtration animation Osman Khan: oil Paul Wilkinson: oil Anne Niemetz: documentation Ted Chung: construction

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