Based on detailed studies of vital molecules and the results of ultra-high-speed studies of water on super-cooled surfaces, water on lipid surfaces and between ions of proteins nucleic acids appears to form transient linear elements of hydration in ice-like cubic conformations. Since they last only about a million millionth of a second, they are not there long enough to establish thermodynamic equilibria but long enough to be detected spectroscopically and affect the motion and interaction of neighboring molecules. In evolution, it was water molecules in ice-like and liquid-bonding states, in specific probability locations around vital molecules which permitted them to assemble spontaneously and produce the living cell.
