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[Dell Winders]

The deal with the fingers is more balderdash. The fingers are not magnetic; they are diamagnetic. The fingers do not levitate the object; they stabilize it. Someone using a metal detector does not sense metal himself (through the metal detector into his arms, for example). He is able to find metal because he hears the metal detector beep.
Saying that someone can sense something with a dowsing rod or long range locator (because of some property of the human body) is like saying that the fingers are levitating the object. If something is suspended between two magnets and it starts moving toward one, it is, AMAZINGLY enough, possible to stop the object from going toward the magnet by putting your hand in the way. If the object then remains stationary, it does not mean that your hand is levitating it. It means the the property of solidity of your hand keeps the object from moving toward the magnet. Elie

It appears I read the article the same as you, but without the criticism.

"Scientists have now shown that forces from everyday materials---wood, plants, even a person's fingers---can help levitate small magnets placed in a magnetic field, causing them to hover motionless in space.

Physcist's had never before acheived stationary levitation without using superconductors. A 157 year-old theorm stipulates that no arrangement of magnets can make them stay in a stable equilibrium.

Gelm and his colleagues, however, learned that certain materials can stabilize a magnet that is being levitated by another. The so-called diamagnetic materials have no permanent magnetic character but generate magnetism that opposes an applied magnetic field.-----------------The real surprise is that such weak repulsive forces are still enough to stabilize the magnetic, preventing it from falling down, or moving upward.

I think bio-science already agrees that the human body generates an electrical field, a magnetic field, and frequency.

The quoted scientific article merely confirms that the existent of a non-permanent magnetic "field" is being generated, and observed by phycist, who are surprised by the repelling force of such a weak non-permanent magnetic field.

I see no evidence in this article where science contridicts my simple informal theory, or criticizes the utilization of Harmonics, Frequency, and Magnetic "field" in my experiements and prototypes. My own field tests concur with their example.

"WHAT HAS BEEN DONE, CAN BE DONE" Dell

[J_Player]

Actually you are right, Dell.

The scientist in that article is surprised because the researcher's fingers are demonstrating a way to stablize the little magnet using his fingers instead of a cyrogenically cooled superconductor. The importance of this demonstration is in the implication that the principle can be used for stable magnetic bearings without using a superconductor or the equipment needed to run it. This is also a demonstration that the diamagnetic force felt by the little magnet is only strong enough to be felt at very close proximity to the diamagnetic material (fingers). If the researcher were to spread his fingers apart about an inch, then the little magnet would becoome unstable again and fall down or else "fall up" against the electromagnet above his hand.

According to the original article, the little magnet and the researcher's fingers are in a 500 gauss magnetic field created by a powerful supercondecting magnet 2.5 meters above. They are not in a magnetic field strength similar to the earth's magnetic field. Thus the effect of the diamagnetic properties is multiplied hundreds of times in this demonstration.

Further reading on the subject will tell you that fingers, other biological tissue and water have fairly low diamagnetic properties compared to other non-magnetic materials. Graphite, for example has 20 times stronger diamegnetic properties. Read the original article publlished in Nature Magazine July, 1999 here: http://www.hfml.ru.nl/nature-july22v400.pdf

[Elie]

It appears I read the article the same as you, but without the criticism.



I think bio-science already agrees that the human body generates an electrical field, a magnetic field, and frequency.

The quoted scientific article merely confirms that the existent of a non-permanent magnetic "field" is being generated, and observed by phycist, who are surprised by the repelling force of such a weak non-permanent magnetic field.

I see no evidence in this article where science contridicts my simple informal theory, or criticizes the utilization of Harmonics, Frequency, and Magnetic "field" in my experiements and prototypes. My own field tests concur with their example.

"WHAT HAS BEEN DONE, CAN BE DONE" Dell

Here we get get to the truth of the matter:
In order to avoid emphasizing that the human body is DIAMAGNETIC, you conveniently CUT OFF the bottom of the article, which can be found at http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_...24_99/fob6.htm
In case anything happens to the link, the following includes the part which Dell removed:
"Superconductors are the strongest diamagnets, and many ordinary materials are weakly diamagnetic (SN: 12/6/97, p. 362).
A pair of well-placed fingers—made up of diamagnetic water, proteins, and organic molecules—is enough to do the trick."
Leaving out part of the article is an awfully amateurish attempt to bolster your "theory."
Also, saying that the amount of magnetic material in the human body is significant is like saying that the gravitational pull of a planet attracts the sun.

[Dell Winders]

I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional, and there was no reason for it to be. It doesn't change the results of my experiments. Thanks for adding the link. Dell