Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang 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 Message-ID: <6255@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Jul 88 21:49:51 GMT References: <3170@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <1310011@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <449@uvicctr.UUCP><1616@uop.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Organization: Freelance Software Consultant, Boston, Ma. Lines: 18 >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. Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (617) 267-4365 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang