water! is it wet?

Question

how and can you prove it's wet?

Answer 1

the definition of wet is covered or soaked with a liquid. the definiton of liquid is the state of matter in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow, little or no tendency to disperse, and relatively high incompressibility. the definiton of water is a clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid. So by definiton water is a liquid that exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow that covers or soaks. So yes water is wet.

Answer 2

Water is wet because the wetter, the better. In other words, "Viscosity." This is not to be confused with the city of the Visigoths who ended up ransacking the countryside and pillaging the poor villagers, and yes, the Village People, too.

Why is water wet? Water is wet so that the fish and other ocean, lake and river creatures can move through it with fluent ease. Friction is not your friend when you are trying to move. We need to be able to drink. We need for boats not to sink. We need for our plumbing to work. This is why water is wet.

But, really, why is water wet? Water is wet because our sensations say it is so. We feel wetness. We get out of a pool and we are dripping, uh, you know. We take a shower and we're, um, you know again.

The question of why is water wet cannot be answered with regular science methodology, but can be answered in Zen Physics. Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.

Answer 3

The Answer is surface tension. Because water is a fluid, it had surface tension. that means when poured into a test tube it has a tendency to rice on the outside of the tube and fall in the middle. This is also known as capillary Action. Because solids do not show this characteristic, nor do gasses, water, or any other liquid (including melted steel) is known to be Wet.

Answer 4

Water cannot, all inclusively, be proven to be wet, as 'wet' is a description/state assigned to it by human interpretation and language. Nietzsche perhaps explains this far better than I can, I think in "Human, all to Human".. All of what we say is 'fact' or 'proof', is based off of human perception, which makes the definitions flawed at their core. All proof is only valid insofar as those interpreting it agree on accepted preconceptions,which convienently enough, are defined by humans and are valid only unto us as a means of expression. Wet is nothing to anything but us, a descriptive state we have assigned

Were you to say "is water wet to the human race', then we could more readily answer yes, the evidence that water is 'wet' to humans is compelling enough to be accepted by -our - standards, (which remember are also a trap of human perception and assumption of reasoning) but without that specification, the answer in a broader sense, has to be no.

I know, I don't explain it to well, I'm no Nietzsche, and yahoo answers is no philisophical playground =)

Answer 5

wet is to be covered with liquid
water refers to the liquid state of h20
so water is a liquid
therefore water is wet

Answer 6

wet

Main Entry: wet
Pronunciation: 'wet
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): wet·ter; wet·test
Etymology: Middle English, partly from past participle of weten to wet & partly from Old English w[AE]t wet; akin to Old Norse vAtr wet, Old English wæter water
1 a : consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (as water) b of natural gas : containing appreciable quantities of readily condensable hydrocarbons
2 : RAINY
3 : still moist enough to smudge or smear
4 a : DRUNK 1a b : having or advocating a policy permitting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
5 : preserved in liquid
6 : employing or done by means of or in the presence of water or other liquid
7 : overly sentimental
8 British a : lacking strength of character : WEAK, SPINELESS b : belonging to the moderate or liberal wing of the Conservative party

Answer 7

Only if it's between 0 degrees c and 100 degrees c.

Answer 8

water is a liquid crystal

Answer 9

youre really not looking for an intelligent answer. are you?

Answer 10

kiddin` huh ?!