Water Divining

[naomi24]

I’ve just been listening to ‘The Bottom Line’ on Radio 4 where the guests were the vice president of CH2M Hill, the CEO of Veolia Water, and the CEO of Anglian Water, who all said that water diviners are used within their respective industries. One said if he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it works. Listen to the last few minutes of the programme from about 27.14.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036w3b6

Your thoughts?

[Hypognosis]

I think the strangest part of that tale was the part about not looking at any news for a full 24Hrs. ;-)

It was two-tone green, as well.

As for time. What if it was like spaghetti? Physicists go on about "3 dimensions plus time", dont they? I don't see why the 4th dimension should have to be mutually at right angles to the other three, so any 'shape' would do. If it was all coiled up then the points of contact could connect time periods we would experience as far apart. If 'information' (fields, forces, particles) could pass across that gap and our senses were sensitive to these then we'd be able to 'see' aspects of the past and the future.

As fanciful as this sounds, I lacked the foresight to write it down, seal it in an envelope and post it to myself (to get it postmarked) at the time I thought of it. I say this now and I just sound like someone who's plagiarising a recent Dr Who script. :-/

[Old_Geezer]

Hi Khandro. I assume you are referring to the second part of my post.

Unsure how to explain really, but I'll try in different words.

I guess, in much the same way as a photon (or whatever) in Quantum Physics is considered to take every single possible path from one point to another (i.e. double slot experiment where an infintine number of paths exist) I'm suggesting that all possible points in time exist, in some form, at all times. An infinity of something may boggle the mind but that doesn't make it inconceivable.

That all points in time (all of which exist at once) where you exist living your life, there you are experiencing that moment always. (I accept there is difficulty using my vocabulary to explain things without allowing folk to criticise, but for want of a better term. you are forever at each moment you experience, there having that experience.)

Somehow your memory hold a collection of moments that could have lead up to the moment you are presently, which would give you the illusion of time flowing: since you recall what you believe to be recent past.

If we, for the sake of discussion agree that all points in time exist at once, then one can conceive of an ability where the mind doesn't just get access to moments believed to be the recent past, but some error has allowed one to see a nearby future moment instead.

Hope that's a bit clearer.

[jim360]

Interesting idea, OG -- if you wanted to start a different thread I could address it better there.

[Khandro]

Yes OG, agree with jim, interesting! would you care to start a new thread and leave a link on here so that we might find which heading it comes under?
"Space/Time Continuum" maybe ?

[jim360]

Perhaps you could start that thread for yourself, Khandro?

I would, but given that my intended post amounts to "I disagree", I don't think I should.

[Khandro]

jim; I could do, but not sure about; "some error has allowed one to see a nearby future moment instead."
Old_Geezer; Before we abort. In my dream I didn't look into the future, I seem to have witnessed something which had already happened, but an event of which I had no knowledge (Green double-decker bus crashing into a low bridge).