Posted by John Nichols on December 10, 2003 at 18:39:11 from 165.91.196.181 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: He had a pleasant feeling.... posted by Mike Field on December 10, 2003 at 14:30:54:
Dear All:
It has been a very busy month so I have been less than active on the board. (Quiet cheering only please).
Dowsing is an interesting idea. You see, if it is paranormal then we have no chance of proving it. If it is just normal physics then we can prove or disprove it using scientific theory - the interesting thing about Ransome was his translation of the scientific theory into practical examples that anyone could follow. Dick is the quintessential budding scientist. Dot pegs him to a tee and I just love his character.
Now to prove it - the Hall effect needs moving water. So water percolating underground has to have a velocity. We therefore ask the first question of the Geography Professor - what is the percolation rate of water underground in m/s?
Then we set the hypothesis - Dowsing can be proven and is physically based.
And we comment on the paper from the Schipps Laboratory - interesting, but like all scientific endeavour failure does not indicate that the German experiments proved anything but they did not work. There is no investigative work of the actual process - so it an interesting read but I would file the whole argument thing between the German and the American in the K File : My file for papers that are flawed in their science - both of them.
Now what is the shape and materials for a dowsing rod that someone knows to work?
John Nichols