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Old 03-23-2007, 05:34 PM
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This is not true. Gold does produce heat when aimed with specific frequencies of laser lights and it's also used by NASA space suits for its heat reflection properties:
You are correct, gold is an excellent reflector of infrared radiation. But infrared radiation does not penetrate soil, so buried gold is not exposed to infrared radiation. Nor will those laser beams penetrate the soil, so let's not make any silly assertions that they will.

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Also see this link:
http://www.physorg.com/news63003999.html
This irrelevant.

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The company states that due to electron structure, gold and other royal metals retain heat longer when buried overnight.
This might or might not be true. I will make tests to corroborate this or not.
False.

When infrared radiation hits the surface of the ground, it is converted into thermal energy, which then propagates mostly via thermal conduction, not thermal radiation. Any buried metal will take on the temperature of the surrounding soil -- again via conduction -- regardless of whether it's gold or iron or whatever. Most metals, including gold, have very high thermal diffusivity compared to the surrounding soil, so they will tend to maintain the same temperature... that is, buried metal will probably not show a thermal lag.

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You are presenting the same skeptic's logic of 'one size fits all'. No, one size does not fit all. If you think dowsing does not work keep it only as your opinion and not a fact.
Every dowser who has tried to show me that dowsing works has failed miserably. When someone takes my $25,000, then I will reconsider.

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Now since you live in US, you or anybody here could try to use the Mastech device and see if the device can be used as Knouzm says. I would try to collect data here from the DIS300.
We could compare results and only this way we would know if the Mastech has been modified or not.
I have just purchased a MS6530 off eBay, for $59. Compare that to $2200 for the DIS-300.

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