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After years of wondering why water is so important for life, the answer may be that it is due to the fact that linear and cubic structuring of water molecules (as shown on the left) occurs on lipid and poly-ionic surfaces. The order lasts only about a million millionth of a second, but guides assembly and, as molecules and ions approach each other, guides them into unique functional associations. Read on to see how.
The article below is A Story of the Evolution of the Molecules of Life based on a premise presented in 1991 in "The Matrix of Life" that transient linear elements in cubic conformations on lipid surfaces guides assembly and motion. In 2009, the proposal received validation by the discovery, based on 4D ultra-high-speed electron crystallography, that water does, indeed, form linear order in cubic ice conformations on both lipid and poly-ionic surfaces.