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A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions. Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), [1] gravesites, [2] malign "earth vibrations" [3] and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
It was alleged by Kenneth Roberts who wrote the book Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod (1951) that Gross located water all over Maine and in surrounding states. [1] [2] Science writer Martin Gardner disputed any occult interpretation of Gross's abilities commenting that his dowsing was the result of the exaggeration, ideomotor effect and random ...
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The dowser must first check the area to see if there is any natural water or anything else that would interfere with the test, and that would be marked. Additionally, the dowser must demonstrate that the dowsing reaction works on an exposed pipe with the water running. Then one of the three pipes would be selected randomly for each trial.
Finding water may refer to multiple techniques: Hydrology and hydrogeology, which study the movement and distribution of water in nature; Use of a water detector, in a building; Dowsing, a pseudo-scientific method; Gamma ray spectrometry, a method of finding extraterrestrial water
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Dec. 8—The Permian Basin energy industry is using lots of fresh groundwater for fracking and the question arises if the supply will always be sufficient. Will the aquifers be drained and the ...
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