No question, water is wet
By Zach Cottam | Senior Reporter
Certain questions have plagued human existence since the dawn of time: What’s at the bottom of the ocean? Why are we here? Is there life on Mars? And most importantly, which came first, the chicken or the egg? These questions seem to have no end, as scientific discovery keeps pushing towards answers, and yet only opens up more questions. One question that has arised in the past few years is one that scientists have spent sleepless nights pondering: Is water wet?
Water, the most important resource on the planet, is used for everything in day-to-day life such as drinking, showering, cleaning, cooking, exercise, and even as a weapon most young kids use to terrorize each other and their parents. Yet it seems as if the human race takes it for granted. Everyone knows water is essential to life, it falls from the sky, and that it is made up of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom. But beyond that, the average human strays away from the specifics of the liquid, until now.
Today, you will finally find the answer you’ve been looking for, with scientific proof and logical reasoning that would Socrates proud. Let’s dive in.
Water is wet. There it is, the bombshell. The dictionary definition of “wet” is “covered or saturated with water or another liquid.” Rather than looking at water as a collection of molecules, in order to fully understand, we must look at water as individual Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms. These molecules are surrounded by, or covered by, more molecules of Hydrogen and Oxygen. Based on this simple explanation, water already matches the definition: water covers more water, ergo making the latter water wet.
Next, let’s look at it from a logical standpoint. In order for something to alter a different object, it must hold the characteristics of which it is altering. For instance, in order for something to be heated up, it must be held against a fire or electrical current, both of which hold high levels of kinetic energy and temperature. In order to color a piece of white printer paper red, you must use some sort of red object to do so. With this logic, in order to make another object wet, water itself must be wet.
Of course, this isn’t concrete. No scientists have proved this, and in fact, several are in debate over whether or not water is wet. This is as solid of proof as is available at this time. Maybe in the upcoming months, this data will be contradicted, but for now the fact stands: water is wet.
albert einstein • Feb 19, 2020 at 8:51 am
water is wet
Mike Hawk • Feb 11, 2020 at 12:52 pm
You guys are not smart at all water is not wet multiple water molecules touching each other is wet but one single water molecule itself is not wet therefore water in itself is not wet any other argument is invalid
Barack Obama • Feb 11, 2020 at 12:31 pm
umm. yes yes water is wet.
Anon • Feb 6, 2020 at 4:53 pm
Water(H2O) can be wet. The definition of wet is covered by or saturated in liquid and water isn’t always a liquid. It can be a solid. So put liquid water on ice and that ice is wet….but wait a minute…ice IS water. So water can be wet but only as a solid.
Jack • Jan 12, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Ur an idiot water isn’t covered by itself
Not you • Dec 19, 2019 at 11:37 pm
Bruh, water isn’t wet. Sarah, you may not be an idiot but surely is wrong. All I gotta say is, FAKE NEWS
Olivia • Dec 18, 2019 at 3:15 pm
Water is wet. Any argument stating otherwise is just playing a game of semantics and ignoring the actual definition. Nothing is wetter than water. I actually hate all of you who try to say otherwise. Your arguments hold no water. You should feel bad for being so bad at existing.
Sarah • Nov 25, 2019 at 9:03 pm
I’m a firm believer in the fact that water IS wet… therefore I must be considered an “idiot” then, right, Bill Nye?
Joe Mama • Nov 2, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Water is NOT wet. Look at this. If you put a drop of water on a plate and put another drop of water on the same plate then make them touch, they combine. They are not touching each other. Water gives the feeling of wetness. Being wet is just a feeling that describes being covered or saturated by a liquid. Liquids are not wet.
whom joe • Oct 8, 2019 at 5:53 am
But who is joe?
Anonymous1 • Dec 1, 2018 at 8:26 pm
The Stephen Hawking comment above is fake, he died on March 14, 2018, and would have had to comment on April 18, 2018, 35 days after he died. Water is wet, water touches water, therefore it is wet.
Bob Jones • Nov 29, 2018 at 10:26 am
The definition of water is right, however water is not always touching other water. If a single water molecule is trapped by itself then it is not wet.
https://www.nature.com/articles/am2011196
bob joe • Nov 5, 2018 at 7:48 am
i love turtles
Stephen Hawking • Apr 18, 2018 at 7:21 pm
water consist of water molecules consisting of other water molecules around it
Bill Nye • Feb 15, 2018 at 2:28 pm
Water isn’t wet. Wetness is a description of our experience of water; what happens to us when we come into contact with water in such a way that it impinges on our state of being. We, or our possessions, ‘get wet’.
Zach Cottam is an idiot.