[meteorite-list] You Naysaying Denialists Are All Wrong, Dowsing Works!

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:38:13 -0400
Message-ID: <695kb61ft33sictcj5igv8h6rr8bo3gk37_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:17:27 -0400, you wrote:

>dowser(s)
>enter the realm
>of simple,
>dogmatic drivel and
>idiots.

Yep.

>this to work. They must be held loosely so they can move freely of their own
>accord. If you grip them too tightly, the experiment won't work.

Yes, the reason the rods must be gripped loosely is so that there is as little
fiction preventing movement of the rods as possible. The outright dowsing rods
are an dynamically unstable, unbalanced system-their center of gravity is along
the length of the horizontal rod, not centered on the axis. Therefore, in a
minimum friction setting, they will remain motionless ONLY if there is ZERO tilt
off perfectly horizontal and ZERO acceleration. If you hand moves for a
fraction of a degree off of perfect level, the rods will move. And you don't
move forward smoothly like a machine-- each step that you take is a lifting of
part of your body, a fall forward, and a bump. Walk very slowly? Just makes it
even more jerky. At that point, something called "Newton's First Law of Motion"
comes into effect (you do venerate Newton as much as Einstein, right?) When
held loosely, a dowsing rod does not act as a component of a rigid system that
is you but as a separate body lying within-you are driving along in your car,
tap your brakes, and your cell phone on the dash slides towards the windshield.
You are walking while holding the dowsing rods and that means the dowsing rods
are moving along at velocity X. Your velocity increases or decreased by a small
amount that you don't even consciously notice-maybe even just because you are
lifting one foot and putting down another-the dowsing rod will attempt to
continue to move at velocity X for a fraction of a second while the hands
holding it are now moving at velocity X+1 or X-1. The dowsing rod is thus made
to change velocity to match-and the change causes the rod (which is, as I
mentioned, a dynamically unstable, unbalanced system) reacts to this by moving
about the axis in your hands.

The only way to make dowsing tests objective and reproducible is to remove all
chance of change in tilt and change in velocity from the experiment-which is why
I suggested a mechanical setup. A person is simply an innately unreliable
platform for fine-level stability and steadiness.
Received on Sat 16 Oct 2010 05:38:13 PM PDT