• Question: why is water wet?

    Asked by anon-239175 to James, Hannah, Claire, Chris, binuraj, Alice on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Hannah Blyth

      Hannah Blyth answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      I honestly don’t know where I fall on this debate, is water wet? If water is wet it is because we think it is wet.

    • Photo: Binuraj Menon

      Binuraj Menon answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      Hi DankDog81,

      Yes I do agree with Hannah here. Wetness is just a feeling (or the sensation associated with it). On a different note, steam is actually a different physical form of water. Do you think it is wet ? I am sure you will say that steam is super hot to touch, isn’t it ?

    • Photo: Chris Carlton

      Chris Carlton answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Do we even know what the word wet means or do we just associate it with something based on our preconceived idea of what it means? This would be a good question for the psychology rooms…

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