Answer 1:
This question is essentially already answered by the responses to the related question. No one has or will ever or can discover that water is or is not wet because there is nothing to discover. The way that "wet" is defined, at least in science, is that a surface is wet if it is coated with a liquid (for the adjective form of "wet"). Notice that this definition requires two substances - a surface (usually solid but some might argue that certain fluids could work) and a liquid.
Water on its own cannot be wet because it is a single substance and therefore cannot cover itself; two bodies of water would simply join together instead of forming a distinct layer of one on top of the other. Even if one considers bodies of water with disparate properties (for example, haloclines where the density is different due to different salt concentrations), there is mixing between the two bodies and no surface or defined interface between them.
(There is also a verb form of "wet", which means "to cover with liquid". Basically, the verb form of wet means to make something the adjective form of wet. Further, wetting , describes the ability of a liquid to spread across a surface.) |
