Subject: Re Low-Level EMF treatment against MS, cancer etc. ?? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 145439 -0500 (CDT) From: aphilips@gn.apc.org (Alasdair Philips) To: Multiple recipients of list <emf-l@mail.llion.org> -------------------------------------------------- Dear Francesco and others A comment from one of the EMF-L "techno" people. Don't dismiss the plant experiments. Read "The Secret life of Plants" by Tompkin and Bird (published in the late 1960s), and "Supernature" by Lyall Watson written about the same time. The books are in my attic somewhere unless I have lent then to someone else - I can't see them here just now. Plants DO react to noise, to people and to low levels of electric fields. However, I do agree that "melodical" and "disharmonic" were unecessary value judgements. Some types of music were found to stimulate growth and some to make the plants "ill". Different rhythms and different on-off times were also found to be important. Various people round the world have tried similar experiments since the "Secret Life" book was published, including some school science projects. It is an easy experiment - why not try it for yourself. Beware of on-off cycles and daylight hours, water stress, etc. Like animals, plants need rhythms which suit their lifestyle! Regards Alasdair Philips. ======================================================== At 15:49 25/07/97 -0500, Francesco Martinelli wrote: >At 08.51 25/07/97 -0500, you wrote: >>Hello there folks! >>In a lab experiment done (place/time ?? - unfortunately) there were 2 rooms >>(some what apart) with identical plants. In one room only soothing >>melodical classical music was played and in the second room only pop and >>rock and disharmonic tunes. The result was that the plants in the second >>room did not like that and showed it by starting to die! > >this may be even worse than the gauss/tesla mistake. It's the sort of BS >circulating in new age magazines. What you call harmonic and disharmonic is >cultural convention, and the opposite was not only believed but fel in >different time and space. I suppose african plants would grow better with >drums and australian with didjeridoos, and plants used to grow better >before renaissance only if the music didn't use the even temperament. >soothing melodic classical music like what, beethoven deemed a bunch of >noises by his contemporaries? >gimme a chance > >Francesco Martinelli >Lungarno Mediceo 10 >56127 PISA ITALY >F.Martinelli@finsystem.it > > Alasdair Philips (aphilips@gn.apc.org) Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html