There is a thread in Wilderness and Survival Skills titled Dowsing: Fact or Fiction?
Please see my post in that thread. Although there are skeptics there, there is absolutely no doubt that using copper wire to find underground water, power, telephone, sewer lines etc. works. I did it for my entire 32 year utility career. I even once correctly found the location of a neighbor's septic tank. I hold two lengths of copper wire, about two feet long with a short handle formed by a 90 degree bend, gripped very loosely about 12 inches apart and parallel facing forward, move slowly through the area being scanned, and when the underground line is approached the wires will move to cross each other, and when directly above the underground line they will be parallel at 90 degrees to their forward position. It is not a mystic ability, as I have never encountered anyone I could not quickly teach to do it.
My question is, do you have any thoughts on the physics of why it works? It seems to me it has to involve minute magnetic fields. Your magnificient brain is needed here.
Please see my post in that thread. Although there are skeptics there, there is absolutely no doubt that using copper wire to find underground water, power, telephone, sewer lines etc. works. I did it for my entire 32 year utility career. I even once correctly found the location of a neighbor's septic tank. I hold two lengths of copper wire, about two feet long with a short handle formed by a 90 degree bend, gripped very loosely about 12 inches apart and parallel facing forward, move slowly through the area being scanned, and when the underground line is approached the wires will move to cross each other, and when directly above the underground line they will be parallel at 90 degrees to their forward position. It is not a mystic ability, as I have never encountered anyone I could not quickly teach to do it.
My question is, do you have any thoughts on the physics of why it works? It seems to me it has to involve minute magnetic fields. Your magnificient brain is needed here.
