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From: todd@uop.edu ( Todd/Dr. Nethack )
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: divining and other party games  (Free power from 'whispering wires' ??)
Summary: ok wolfgang go ahead
Message-ID: <1625@uop.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 88 17:10:32 GMT
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In article <6255@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:

> ...
> >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? ;-)

No, just room temperature superconducting copper wire, made some with
my chemistry set last year.  ;-) ;-) ;-)

> Why is it that all diviners insist that they *must* be holding onto
> the rods to make them "twitch"?  

I don't speak for all diviners.. I am not a diviner.. I am merely reporting
what I did.. And never did I insist that they had to be held.. I just told
you what I did!!

> 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.

Ok, build one!  I don't care!!  I just told you what I had experienced..
and you (et. al.) decide I am an unscientific mystic!

Just don't forget your vertical radiator (to supplement for the human body)

And have at it!!