Cell Language 231“6x9” b2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter4.21 The Dissipative-to-Equilibrium Reversibility (DER)
Postulate of Aquastructures
It appears that it was the Swiss physician and natural scientist H. Jenny
(1904–1972) who first used water as the medium of visualizing sound waves
[485]. But it was the invention of CymaScope by J. S. Reid in 2002 that popu-
larized sound-induced water wave patterns Reid calls “Cyma Glyphs” [493].
It would be convenient to introduce a few new terms which are listed
below along with other related terms that may facilitate the study of
sound-induced water wave patterns or ‘sonoaquascopy’ (in contrast to
‘aquasonoscopy’, the study of sounds using water as a sensor):(i) Aquastructure = a structure constructed out of n water molecules
where n can be a few to billions, regardless of whether or not they
are visualizable.
(ii) Aquaglyphs = synonym for aquastructure.
(iii) Aquaresonance = the aquastructure maintained far from equilib-
rium through dissipation of free energy, and hence is synonymous
with D-aquastructure or D-aquaglyph.
(iv) Aquacymatics = the study of waves generated in and transmitted
through water driven by osmotic and/or pressure gradients (e.g.,
study of the water movements across cell membrane through aqua-
porins and their consequences in cell volume and cell sounds).
(v) Cytocymatics = implicates aquacymatics to the extent that water
waves play a role in cell biology as exemplified in (ii).
(vi) CymaGlyph = a sound-induced water standing wave pattern visual-
ized with CymaScope [493].
(vii) cymaglyph = a water standing wave pattern induced by sound, elec-
tromagnetic, or other kinds of waves. Thus, CymaGlyph (a proper
noun) is a token belonging to the cymaglyph (a common noun) type.
(viii) Aquaresonance = a water standing wave pattern formed in water
induced by external waves through resonance, including sound and
electromagnetic waves.
(ix) D-aquastructure = a water structure, either visible or invisible, that
disappears when energy input is removed. Thus, CymaGlyphs are
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