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In Reply to: RE: Do Crystals Work? The Results posted by rick_m on April 04, 2011 at 23:05:05
crystals rather tightly packed In a bag be pressed down, with a grease on surfaces gave best results.
A bag of loose, clean Quartz allows a lot of EMR through.
Th various treatments given crystals matters. Exactly why i do not know. The Crystals used by Elizabeth had a Silicone grease applied. Which gave the (apparently desirable coating of a non conductive product, some use mineral oil and dry fry etc to dry out, another suggests antistatic spray, and third the Silicone grease.)
For example the Tigereye xxmini were very poor at blocking EMR dry, but after treatment with the grease, were very effective in blocking EMR.
Follow Ups:
This is from Elizabeth's original post on the subject:
"My test was fast just to see if my new pile of small crystal bits work. The Greenlee GT-16 non contact voltage detector (works great, highly recommended) would go crazy from the(separate) power supply umbilical of my VAC Standard preamp.
Using just the thinnest possible layer of rose quartz crystals (1/8 to 1/4 inch ones) in a baggie pressed flat, stopped any emanations.
The checker is very sensitive too.
So they do cut the EMF completely."
So, what I did was consistent with that (no grease was used in her test) and, in fact, I used a thicker layer of Rose Quartz and Amethyst than she did, which should have doen a better job of absorbing/blocking the emissions. The tester she used was only sensitive to the range of 50 - 500Hz; I measured 20 - 20KHz.
between your rose quartz and stock - no crystal plots vs. the amethyst. There at 20 kHz at my highest allowed zoom (before everything turns to fuzz), the tan data line appears to be just below the chart line for -84dB, where the other two are almost 1 dB above, obscuring the black line. You've got the original; it could be the tan is not as bright as the others and harder to pick out visually.
There is nothing I'd call a significant difference there - those plots are averages of 100 scans each, with some baseline noise present.
"So, what I did was consistent with that (no grease was used in her test)..."
But her source was different, and her detector was also. I'd say the tests really were not very comparable. Doesn't mean that either was wrong however, it takes a lot of controls to have truly comparable tests, take cold fission for example...
I agree that it was worth a shot in light of her results, the key thing is to weight the results properly. It takes a lot of data points pointing in the same direction to start framing conclusions.
Regards Rick
And that's what makes the idea that placing a Single Crystal or several small crystals on top of a preamp, on top of a power plug or on the RCA jacks of interconnects so "mysterious" - a lot of EMR will still be allowed through. Furthermore, "blocking" RFI/EMI is not the same thing as absorbing it -- i.e., lots of materials are capable of blocking it. And if it IS "blocked" where does it go? It doesn't simply vanish.
Science my friend, it's simply science.
Blocked energy can't go anywhere so it just keeps building up until it invokes a loss of structural integrity event destroying the apparatus along with the experimenter. It has now been shown that the craters on the Earth previously thought to be due to meteor impacts are simply the scars of previous experiments.
May the force be with you.
R.
PS: Lenz was the most famous 'doubter' and look where he is now: dead as a mackerel!
Wait until CERN achieves success with their latest toy!
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 04/06/11
The crystal in question will get warm.....
I'd suggest putting some quartz in the microwave. I'll bet it gets warm, and not from its moisture content which may be what......1 or 2 percent?
Too much is never enough
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