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How Does Dowsing Work?
Posted on 1/13/18 at 11:18 am
Posted on 1/13/18 at 11:18 am
Anybody know?
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Posted on 1/13/18 at 11:39 am to BoarEd
No clue. Ask Fi.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 11:54 am to BoarEd
Dowsing is a pseudoscience. There's no scientific evidence that it's more effective than the random chance of finding water, or anything else for that matter.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 11:55 am to Kentucker
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Dowsing is a pseudoscience
No it isn't. It's science you don't understand, but it works.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 11:59 am to BoarEd
You're being facetious, right?
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:02 pm to Kentucker
Not even a bit. I've seen it work.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:04 pm to BoarEd
It's pseudoscience that has demonstrably been shown to be no more effective than chance. Dowsing rods move due to a human autonomic response known as the ideomotor effect. Dowsing is more interesting from a neurological and psychiatric perspective than anything else, as it's a classic example of genuine belief triggering a physiological response.
Doodlebugging sure is a fun word, though
Doodlebugging sure is a fun word, though
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:06 pm to BoarEd
Okay, here's a silly question: Why isn't dowsing a mainstream technology? You'd think the production of divining rods would be an industry unto itself.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:06 pm to Roger Klarvin
As I said, I've seen it work. Many times. I spent years surveying land and I have located water wells for people who found them dowsing. With success. On numerous occasions.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:07 pm to Roger Klarvin
So you’re saying that the stick naturally feeds off of an impulse from the brain triggered by our latent and hidden ability to find water?
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:08 pm to KSGamecock
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:09 pm to BoarEd
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As I said, I've seen it work. Many times. I spent years surveying land and I have located water wells for people who found them dowsing. With success. On numerous occasions.
Oh ok well in that case nevermind
Posted on 1/13/18 at 12:11 pm to KSGamecock
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So you’re saying that the stick naturally feeds off of an impulse from the brain triggered by our latent and hidden ability to find water?
I think this is the answer, honestly. I think it has something to do with the magnetite levels in a person's brain. Some people are better suited to find water than others.
There is nothing special about the stick. It's the person. And Roger's point about it being an involuntary fine motor movement is correct
What's interesting is one old man I knew not only found water, but was able to determine how deep the water would be found as well. To do this he sat over the top of the location where the water is located with a thin stick (apple branch) held out over the spot and counted how many times the tip of the stick dipped downward over a 15 second interval.
He told me he'd bet his entire farm water could be found there at a depth of 60', and he was correct
Posted on 1/13/18 at 1:59 pm to BoarEd
Outrageous.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:43 pm to Kentucker
True story.
And ever since I saw that, I have taken an interest in it myself.
It can be used to locate a number of things besides just water. You can dowse to find gas lines, electric lines, sewer lines, etc, with remarkable accuracy.
And ever since I saw that, I have taken an interest in it myself.
It can be used to locate a number of things besides just water. You can dowse to find gas lines, electric lines, sewer lines, etc, with remarkable accuracy.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:54 pm to Kentucker
"How does Dowsing work?"
Proceeds to tell everyone they're wrong and then explains how dowsing "works"
Proceeds to tell everyone they're wrong and then explains how dowsing "works"
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:58 pm to CNB
No. I was seriously asking. I don't know how it works. I just know it does.
I said I think Roger was correct because it's the best explanation I've heard.
Do you not read well?
I said I think Roger was correct because it's the best explanation I've heard.
Do you not read well?
Posted on 1/14/18 at 1:00 pm to BoarEd
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I think this is the answer, honestly
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I think
This means it's my opinion.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 3:12 pm to BoarEd
I have personally used it to find electric and water lines, confirmed by the utility location sevice (ArkUPS). Never tried for a well or anything like that. Maybe electromagnetic fields? I was using two bent coathangers, BTW.
This post was edited on 1/14/18 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 1/14/18 at 3:20 pm to Dixie Normas
Exactly. When you use it to mark utilities it is confirmed. There's a feller in Siloam Springs who works for the city and that's how he marks utilities. And those locations are confirmed by surveyors all the time considering those locations are used to be incorporated in engineering design plans.
If it didn't work, we would be digging up waterlines and shite when we widen roads.
There is zero doubt that it works. My main question is how does it work
If it didn't work, we would be digging up waterlines and shite when we widen roads.
There is zero doubt that it works. My main question is how does it work
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