Posted by David Brooks on December 12, 2003 at 17:09:47 from 208.210.80.40 user DavidBrooks.
In Reply to: Re: Dowsing, Hall effect and compasses posted by Dave Thewlis on December 12, 2003 at 16:42:08:
> The only time I've seen this done the rods in question were about the thickness of coathanger wire ... so they were fairly light and swinging quite freely within the tubes.
But surely not swinging as freely as a compass needle?
Come to think of it, why don't dowsers use compasses - why don't they use ready-made, cheap devices that have been engineered to react to electromagnetic fields, instead of making their own devices? I think the most obvious answer is that the dowsing effect is not caused by electromagnetic fields. It seems reasonable that research should consider alternate explanations.