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From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Kirlian photography
Message-ID: <354@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 19 Sep 89 08:08:45 GMT
References: <27659@buckaroo.mips.COM>
Organization: RT6115, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, England
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From article <27659@buckaroo.mips.COM>, by vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan):
> In article <349@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes:
> The W&B paper ("A study of the Kirlian Effect", The Skeptical Inquirer, vol.
> 10, Spring 1986) notes that all five major claims of Kirlian enthusiasts
> can be adequately explained by natural (non-psychic) processes. Their best
> guess (they didn't want to waste any more time on these claims), is that
> "Kirlian aura is a visual or photographic image of a corona discharge in a
> gas [modulated by]...composition of the air, pressure, impurities emanating
> from the sample, as well as the voltage and current of the source."  
> 

Persoinally I dont beleive its psychic either - its interesting that they
said that something existed , and for me that makes it worth photographing.
I like pretty pictures.

> Thats all.

A good point - this should be continued in sci.sceptic if anywhere. Back
to transistors and stuff methinks...

-Pete.

-- 
       -Pete French.               | "She stares at the screen,
  British Telecom Research Labs.   |  At the little words of green,
 Martlesham Heath, East Anglia.    |  Tries to remember what to do next."
All my own thoughts (of course)    |                            -N.M.A.