I don't really want to spoil this excitment and I seriously hope that I
am wrong. Never the less, there is one detail which returns back to me
again and again. It ocured to me when Jerry could not duplicate
Mr.Benini's rotor and now it comes again with Mr. Ohsako.
I did some ghost chasing with my sister as a kid. The set up was a
(steel) key tied by a string into the short side of a book by a dead
author. Two people would support the key on their forefingers oposite
each other and give the author questions. The book would turn with a
positive answer and fall to the ground, despite our effort to stop it.
It worked with me exactly till the time when it gave wrong lottery
answers and I when I lost the faith in it.
Mr. Maekawa says that the thing does not work with any contraptions
retaining the rotor. He has to hold onto it.
I have run again into the "divining" effect when I did my physics
experimenting with bismuth. I am rather thorough and I wanted to see
diamagnetism of bismuth first hand.
Set up:
A cake of bismuth tied to one end of a ballanced arm, the arm suspended
on a fishing line so as to spin quite freely.
A permanent speaker magnet on the level with the bismuth about 3" from
the reach of the arm.
Well, it was set up in my office in the evening to give the bismuth time
to settle. Comming in the morning, I just peeked around the doorway to
see the bismuth in an irrelevant possition half way between the doorway
and the magnet.
..
But when I moved carefully into that doorway, the damn thing turned
quite fast away from me and stopped quite fast just before it was turned
entirely toward the magnet.
My point is that we seem to produce such phenomena when we have faith
into something.
Mr. Ohsako might want to try other people to see the consistency of the
experiment.
Either way it says how little we know.
Regards Slavek