Posted on 03/18/2019 1:26:25 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
During the experiment, 26 participants each sat with their eyes closed in a dark, quiet chamber lined with electrical coils. These coils manipulated the magnetic field inside the chamber such that it remained the same strength as Earths natural field but could be pointed in any direction. Participants wore an EEG cap that recorded the electrical activity of their brains while the surrounding magnetic field rotated in various directions.
...Joseph Kirschvink, a neurobiologist and geophysicist at Caltech, and colleagues studied alpha waves to determine whether the brain reacts to changes in magnetic field direction. Alpha waves generally dominate EEG readings while a person is sitting idle but fade when someone receives sensory input, like a sound or touch.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
“sure enough, there’s a lot of evidence that cows do sense magnetic and electric fields.”
So in an indoor farming situation well-placed Nd:B magnets would increase yield by orienting the magnetic field to however the barn was originally built.
Mapping magnetite in the human brain
A nice find!
The two articles dovetail nicely.
Thanx
How would that react with the ‘cow magnets’?
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Cow magnets would be oriented mostly randomly with some being N-S
“..as long as you remember that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West..”
I recall some radio show - might have been a local broadcast. But they would have these stupid questions like the old Jay Leno “man on the street” thing.
I recall one where they would call folks probably with a prize reward or something) and ask them in which direction does the sun rise. Of course they threw away all the folks that answered “in the east”.
“Which direction? Well - to the right.”
“To the right?”
“Yeah. Well that’s out my front door. Out my back door it’s to the, huh, um that would be um - to the left.”
“Okay lets stick with the front door. So which direction does your front door face?”
“Well that’s straight ahead - to the FRONT!”
“No - I mean which direction on a map - like north or south or whatever?”
“Oh. Um - yeah, I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“No - not off the top of my head. And I’m on my cell phone and not home anyway so I can’t check.”
“Okay - well thanks for playing. But we needed a map direction for the sunrise, so no prize. Sorry.”
“Okay - well call me again when you have an easier question. Thanks!”
They had LOTS of those types of answers - pretty unbelievable.
I wonder if I would have thought to say something like “It doesn’t rise at my house.” Then play along with them.
LOL! Every time I get shock cardioversion, I glow in the dark for several days. I’ve had it done 5 times now. ;)
Leftover stuff from our ‘birdbrain’... helps us fly to Mexico when the time is right.
good points
What do neutrinos fell like? Then you will know what anti-neutrinos fell like!
The obvious answer is up.
LOL - can’t argue with that!
Probably related to Joe "True Polar Wander" Kirschvink? Both keywords, chrono sorted:
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