river-wind
Valued Senior Member
I used to think that there was absolutly nothing to crystals, gems, etc. Until one guy I went to college with showed me the results to an experiment he did in Highschool under the direction of a very skeptical professor.
The back story was this:
The guy wanted to prove that gemsstones have a noticable effect on health (and certain other stones can have a negative effect). His teacher said basically that he could do that experiment as his senior thesis if he wanted to, but if he failed to show any positive results, then he would have to do another experiment, or fail.
So the experiment goes ahead, using generic pea plants.
The control group grows normally.
The "healing gems" plants have a 40% average increase in growth (length of longest plant section)
The "hurting stones" plants have a 60% reduction in growth (length).
I looked over the paper, and it seemed valid (no noticable problems in the stat analysis or the procedure as described. His teacher ended up giving him an A.
Now, I haven't veryfied his data; he could have rigged the whole experiment, or he could have even made the whole thing up and just shown me a bogus paper.
But for now, the whole "crystals" thing is solidly in my "I have no f'ing clue" catagory.
The back story was this:
The guy wanted to prove that gemsstones have a noticable effect on health (and certain other stones can have a negative effect). His teacher said basically that he could do that experiment as his senior thesis if he wanted to, but if he failed to show any positive results, then he would have to do another experiment, or fail.
So the experiment goes ahead, using generic pea plants.
The control group grows normally.
The "healing gems" plants have a 40% average increase in growth (length of longest plant section)
The "hurting stones" plants have a 60% reduction in growth (length).
I looked over the paper, and it seemed valid (no noticable problems in the stat analysis or the procedure as described. His teacher ended up giving him an A.
Now, I haven't veryfied his data; he could have rigged the whole experiment, or he could have even made the whole thing up and just shown me a bogus paper.
But for now, the whole "crystals" thing is solidly in my "I have no f'ing clue" catagory.