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Maxamillion

In Reply to: RE: Loose crystals that have a large amount of 'air' in crystals do not block EMR, per Elizabeth, Only: posted by d3vkb on April 05, 2011 at 01:53:42

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.

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I think I see a slight effect - QuadTodd 17:55:46 04/05/11 (1)
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.
- Looking at the originals - Maxamillion 19:19:34 04/05/11 (0)
  There is nothing I'd call a significant difference there - those plots are averages of 100 scans each, with some baseline noise present.
RE: Not Quite - rick_m 16:37:26 04/05/11 (0)
"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

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