From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Dec 13 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!btnet-peer!btnet!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!naturesway.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Andrew K Fletcher" Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.microbiology,bionet.neuroscience Subject: Re: The truth is out there Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:37:56 -0000 Message-ID: <913625143.20003.0.nnrp-10.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> References: <73sh3s$1n2$2@news.tamu.edu> <912381406.6676.0.nnrp-04.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> <73t7tt$9kr$2@news.tamu.edu> <36635D8D.46F680BA@pop3.concentric.net> <740246$k24$1@news.tamu.edu> <913500941.7312.0.nnrp-04.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> <36733F0D.5BA589C9@pop3.concentric.net> <913570714.12075.0.nnrp-06.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> <751qem$lci@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: naturesway.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: naturesway.demon.co.uk:212.228.66.3 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 913625143 nnrp-10:20003 NO-IDENT naturesway.demon.co.uk:212.228.66.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Lines: 81 Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:4649 bionet.microbiology:15330 bionet.neuroscience:26535 Dear Frank your reaction is not a new one to my work, though I did expect better from you. Have you repeated my experiment with the tubing? All one would require to do so is a 4 metre length of aeration tubing from a pet shop that sells fish, a suitable tray to catch water in, a 2ml syringe and a T joint- optional and two small necked bottles. With the syringe filled with coloured concentrated salt solution attached to the T joint fixed via a short length of the soft walled tubing, to the centre of the main tube Place the water filled open ends of the tubes in the water filled bottles taking care not to get bubbles in the water. Then raise the centre of the tube vertically and suspend from a hook or whatever is available, so that the syringe is attached to the side which is lower. Top up the bottles to the brim with more water. Mop up any water spilled. Inject a small amount of the coloured salt solution into the suspended loop of tubing. Result The saline solution obviously flows down one side of the tubing. The other side of the tubing causes water to be drawn from one bottle to the other, indicated by one overflowing bottle and one falling water level in the other bottle. Top up the falling water level side regularly and once circulation has slowed, indicated by the arrival of the coloured salt solution in the receiving bottle, re=inject a little more saline solution. Repeat until syringe is empty. Then measure the displaced water. Once you have performed this ridiculously simple experiment, perhaps you would like to revise your previous comment. Alternatively, send me an Email, asking for the HTML version and I will gladly post it to you. I have adopted this approach because I want to keep track of everyone who become interested in my work. The reason that gravity is of importance to the restoration of a damaged nervous system will be dealt with in due course. Osmosis, Capillary action and root pressure are erroneous explanations in relation to fluid transport within trees and plants and animals, including humans. To defend such explanations, blindly merely lowers ones stature in the face of undeniable evidence. I do hope we become friends along this somewhat lonely road? F. Frank LeFever wrote in message <751qem$lci@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>... > >Nice that each has found someone who "understands". >Let us hope they email each other directly, incessantly. > >Maybe someone should fund a think-tank for these great minds--with >padded walls? We have a couple of other candidates, absent from this >group (mercifully) for a while, but not forgotten... > >F. LeFever > > > >In <913570714.12075.0.nnrp-06.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> "Andrew K >Fletcher" writes: >> >>Thanks for your kind review Ken .