Like I had said I taught people dowsing it goes into beliefs and faith which leaves science lost. Dowsing in my opinion is a belief it will work. Like placebos science can not show how they work but do have scientific evidence it does.
There's no way in physics or chemistry that a forked stick can reveal the presence of water. The reason they dip is because of the involuntary unbalance of tensions in the hands and fingers, which may be coincident with the presence or absence of water. Dowsing? it can be successful if the point of the rod is rubbed on the pancreas of an immature jungle lemur. Hal
Why Dowsing Makes Perfect Sense -- New Scientist Dowsing: The Pseudoscience of Water Witching -- Live Science
I can dowse. . I use two bent coathangers, Never could get fruit wood to work for me. Hal you are dead wrong. Have you ever tried to do it? Some can't but most folks will have some results while doing it. Hal, do me a favor. Make yourself a couple of els out of wire coat hangers. About 4 inches for your fist and twelve inches long. Hold them loosely in your fist parallel to the ground. Walk outside to your water main. Cross over it several time holding your hangers. Have your wife try it. I am quite sure one of you will get a reaction.
Peter Renfro I taught Dowsing in a collage course and found most could do it. The one's having difficult were the one's who would not believe it was possible. Science say it has to be able to replicate it and when you get a person who dose not believe. They can not do science will say there you go it dose not work.
I can't think of any logical reason why dowsing should work. It seems flat-out crazy to me. However, I have come across other things that don't make sense but nevertheless, exist.
No takers? I would really love to see anyone, especially the skeptical take up this challenge and report back!
Missed a chance to try it with a maple tree last week. Forgot all about it. I found a box of old coat hangers recently. Will try it with those, as soon as I get my taxes done.
Nancy give you a hint just put in your mind what you want to find. If you think you know it will show you that spot and not the real goal. Think OK you show me where it is because I do not know.
Sorry I never got around to reporting back on this. Tried the coat hanger method with two wires both bent at 90 degrees, inside tubes, walking over known water lines from a well in the yard. The problem was, there was no way I could hold both the tubes perfectly vertical, so they just swung whatever direction gravity told them to go. To overcome that, it seems you would need to stick the wires in a block of wood or something, with holes drilled perfectly vertical, and you'd have to hold the block perfectly level.