Jones Beene wrote:
Stephen
So, you don't really need to look for subtle "chi energy" changes to
find what may be significant differences between microwave and stovetop
boiling.
You probably already surmised that the "chi" part was partly
tongue-in-chi-eek...
Well ... I'm never really sure.... ;-)
...yet... there is always the remote possibility that "unfathomables"
such as "chi" of "orgone" <g> have some small grounding in physical
reality (or "non-physical reality" if you consider 4-space as
nonphysical).
For instance, even without subscribing to the details of Mills'
hydrino theory - it is conceivable (but not likely) that an easily
hidden species of "redundant ground state" hydrogen is being
continuously created in the solar corona over geologic time - and
makes its way to earth in the solar wind - and then accumulates in
earth's oceans in parts per billion quantities....
I totally discount the de-gasification explanation, since my plants
grow quite well in chlorinated water, and if anything dissolved CO2
would help, not hurt.
Yes, I tend to agree with that.
(Mice, on the other hand, don't do so well with chlorinated water, FWIW.)
I also discount leached minerals, since the mineral content of soil is
many time higher than what could possible be in the water.
Except for sodium, but boiling would increase the concentration of that,
and besides that would hurt, not help, and tend to skew the results the
other way.
Anyhow, the main point I was trying to make is that it's possible, even
likely, that there was a gross physical difference in the way heat was
applied to the two samples, including the amount of heat that was
applied to the samples. When one notes a large difference in handling
of two samples right up front which could plausibly cause the observed
different results through conventional means, it seems a little early to
speculate as to the effect of some very subtle differences in their
handling which should cause at most a small difference in results
according to current theory.
In other words, until one has rerun the experiment taking pains to see
that the two samples really are heated and boiled to very similar
degrees, it may not be worth speculating about strange chemical bond (or
orgone, or chi, or hydrino) effects due to the microwaves themselves.
That's all...
... as I said in the original post..."often mainstream physics can
only guess at the answer."
That's for sure. For that matter, almost any real-world situation tends
to be too complicated to fully address via "mainstream physics" -- one
nearly always must address, instead, an idealized, simplified version
and then hope the predicted results will be "close enough".
