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gopimenon June 29th, 2009

Hi There,

The last few posts have been a little intense, so am changing the pace a little for today’s post!   I am going to talk about Ice Cubes floating in a glass of water, from which we will lead up to today’s Happy Living Tip#5.

Today’s tip is also linked to Tip #4 on being Grateful.   It is about taking the time to really observe some  common daily occurrences that we take for granted – and wonder at how miraculous these things truly are!

Today I will talk about one little miracle that never fails to amaze me:

Ice Cubes Float – isn’t that miraculous?

The other day I was at a restaurant and observed that the ice cubes were floating on top of the fruit juice I ordered.   So what?  Big deal?

Hey it is a big deal!  Think about it.   Generally any element in solid form is more dense than when in the liquid form!  To put it another way,  any liquid expands as it is warmed up and contracts when it is cooled down.  This is the principle we use in our thermometers.

So if we were to cool a glass of water the colder water will sink to the bottom and the warmer water will rise to the top!  So by right ice which is colder than the water at zero deg. C should sink to the bottom, shouldn’t it?

However water has a special property called the ‘Anomalous Behavior of Water’ whereby water as it is cooled down say from room temperature, will initially contract until the temperature reaches 4deg. C, at which point it will start to expand!  So at zero deg.C or the temperature at which ice forms, the solid ice is actually less dense than water.  So ice floats on water!

By the way ‘anomalous’ is just another word for ‘peculiar’, ‘atypical’, ‘aberrant’, ‘abnormal’ etc. by which the scientist is simply saying: “We don’t know why water behaves in this way.  It just does!”   I would add “God only knows how!”   

But I do know why God makes water behave in that peculiar fashion.  It is because of the Creator’s love for all life on this Planet, to ensure that life continues to thrive!   Let me explain.

Imagine what happens to the oceans if water behaved like other liquids and kept contracting as it gets colder:

1. During winter, the colder water at the surface of ponds will sink to the bottom and if it were to continue to do so, the ice would also sink to the bottom and the pond will tend to freeze from the bottom upwards, and there will be no water for the fish to live in.  This is true for lakes and the oceans too!
2. Now when summer comes and starts thawing the ice, only the ice at the surface will become water but the ice at the bottom never gets the chance to thaw out.   After several winters the pond would be frozen solid.  If this were to happen to the oceans, we are left with no marine life as well as imminent danger of another ice age!  Finally no animal or human life on Earth!

Because Nature knows this, it made sure that water will start to EXPAND after 4 deg.C, thus causing the colder water to rise back to the surface and cause freezing from the top down.  Thus when summer comes, the ice layer on top can be melted easily by the sun and thus preserve marine life which have been existing under the ice.

• This then is the reason why water behaves in the ‘anomalous’ manner!   Because the Creator loves all living creatures (whether in the sea, on land or in the air) and wants them all to continue to have the gift of life!

Now what has all this got to do with Happy Living Tip #5?  Read the tip below and you will know the connection!

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Happy Living Tip # 5:  Look at Common DAILY MIRACLES with Childlike Wonder & Amazement!

Too often we take everything around us for granted and never really sit down and think about them.

Each one of us can start to identify and think about some common daily occurrences that are truly magical!  Then we will begin to truly appreciate the world and the Creator, which will pave the way to Happy Living; instead of living always with complaints!

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Since there are hundreds of daily things that can cause us to wonder, I invite you dear reader to share some of your own experiences in your comments!

I had already mentioned a common miracle in my earlier post “Thank God for My Elbows!”  Here are some other daily miracles to start the ball rolling:

1. Coconut Tree: How does water from the roots reach coconuts 40 feet above ground?
2. Dreams: How can we touch and taste and hear and see in color; feel all the emotions; as though it were totally real?  Therefore is a blind person able to see color in his dreams or a deaf person hear music in his dreams?
3. Our Tongue:  How does it synchronize its movements while moving food around to avoid getting chopped to pieces by the gnashing of the teeth while chewing?
4. Mind: Where is our mind located?  In the head?  In the heart? or in each cell? How?
5. Etc. Etc.

In life, there are too many things to wonder about, be amazed at in childlike curiosity and to be grateful for!  If only we would do it as a regular daily habit,  then we will find Happy Living much easier to achieve!

In closing may I say this:

It is Nature that Creates; Science merely tries to Explain that which has been created!

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