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THE FINE-TUNING IN THE PHYSICAL
PROPERTIES OF WATER

In his book The Uniqueness of Biological Materials, renowned
biochemist Professor A. E. Needham states that liquid sub-

stances are necessary for life to form. If the laws of physics per-
mitted only two of the three states of matter (i.e., solids and
gases), life could have never existed because in solids, atoms are
too closely linked and static. They do not permit the dynamic
molecular reactions that living organisms need to perform. In
gases, on the other hand, atoms become too unstable and erratic
to enable the complex mechanisms of living organisms to func-

tion.
In short, a necessary condition for the functions of life is a
liquid environment. Water is an ideal or, perhaps, the ideal liq-
uid. Its properties, extraordinarily conducive for life, have long
attracted the attention of scientists. Water has thermal properties
that appear to contradict some laws of nature but prove that it
has been specifically created for life.
All known substances, including liquids, contract as their
temperature decreases bar one. Decreasing volume means in-

creased density and increased mass by volume which is why the
solid state of liquids has greater mass. Water on the other hand,
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contracts until its temperature has fallen to 4 C (39.2 F) where
it begins to expand again unlike any other liquid. It expands fur-
ther when it freezes which explains why the solid state of water
has less mass than its liquid state. In other words, whereas ice

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