Congratulations on you experimental design. It is wonderful to see someone doing
something.
A couple of specific suggestions.
1- In the environment you anticipate inside the test tubes bacteria and fungi will have a
field day. I suggest you surface stiralize the seeds and maintian strile techniqu as you
set up the experiment. Grocery store clorox or the equalivent should do the trick. I
would dilute it 5 or 10 to 1 for starters and leave the seeds in for several minutes. The
test tubes, cotton, stopers, and water inside them can be strilazed in a presure cooker
at home.
2- As you work up the results the variation between samples in each lot will probably be
rather large. Each plant is an individual and there will be divverences. Averaging them
together will probably give you a clearer picture of the differences.
Hope this will help,
Hnery Curtis
Jay J. Krull wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I've been a lurker for some time. Until recently I didn't have anything
> to contribute to the list's discussion topics, so I didn't subscribe or
> participate in any of the discussions.
>
> Then, about two months ago, while scanning the eScribe archive, I saw a
> post entitled "100% PROOF AETHER EXISTS." [dated 24 May 1998,
> http://www.escribe.com/science/keely/msg02473.html] In this post the
> author makes the following extraordinary claim - If one were to place a
> seed in a moist growth environment inside a sealed-off container, and
> weigh this container over time, one would discover a gradual increase in
> weight "which simply cannot be explained by contemporary physical laws or
> theories."
>
> Furthermore, the author of this post claims "The gain in weight can be
> demonstrated with even a small letterscale, no laboratory precision scale
> is needed."
>
> Well, I have a laboratory-precision scale, and about 480 test tubes just
> asking to be used in an experiment, so I have written up an experiment to
> test this assertion. It is on the web at
>
> http://www.dnaco.net/~jjk/xprmnt.html
>
> I would appreciate some comments/criticisms/accolades, as warranted, about
> my first draft of my proposed experiment. I would like to have your
> comments before August 5th, as I'd like to get started soon.
>
> Of course, I plan to share my data and results with everyone here on the
> maillist.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay J. Krull
>
> (alias jjk@dnaco.net)
> Kettering, Ohio
>
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