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This looks cool, but the explanation given in the graphic is bullshit. That's not how ions work. That's not what swirling water does. The explanation is ignorant pseudoscience.
Beware of people appealing to "the ancients". The ancient who? Ancient societies were not uniformly developed, and they did a lot of really questionable things. Ancient ≠ wise. For example, the ancient Aztecs sacrificed children to Tlaloc, torturing them to make them cry as much as possible because they believed their tears were needed to bring the rain. Those are not exactly "the ancients" I would like to appeal to.
If child tears brought rain, we'd be have evolved gills. Motherfuckers always be cryin
Should've just deleted their fortnite profile
There could be some elements of truth in this idea : water gets ionized when actively shaken, when waves come crashing on a shore or a the base of a waterfall for example. Veritasium covered this topic in this episode.
This is not the same as attracting ions when gently swirled.
Also, the video you linked concluded that the folks claiming all sorts of bullshit about ions were making baseless claims. This video doesn't exactly show that these ion peddlers are closer to truth than lies; it shows the opposite.
I'm not saying those swirls are legit, and it's not my field, so my point is no need to draw quick conclusions, just raising the intellectual curiosity and that scientific process could be applied to test it, as it was done with the salt lamps for example.
But did it rain or didn't it?