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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: divining and other party games  (Free power from 'whispering wires' ??)
Summary: BS alert
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Date: 16 Jul 88 21:49:51 GMT
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>No it is not, this has to do with measurable electromagnetics.
...
>Sure, lets try to guess what is going on.. I am walking (upright, vertical)
>I am carrying two copper rods about 12 guage in my hands, about 12" long
>each, bent at 2" with the long ends extended in front of me..
>(held in thumb and index finger)
>As I walked, the little beggers occasionally swing from pointing front, to
>pointing at each other, or laying along the line of the pipe run.

First of all, I have to know, was this oxygen-free copper wire? ;-)

Why is it that all diviners insist that they *must* be holding onto
the rods to make them "twitch"?  If this were a true "electromagnetic"
phenomenon and not some party trick, then one would expect to see this
effect under controlled conditions when the rods are mounted on a
measurement jig.

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