(1) ohne zu berühren
(2) etwa 10 Meter
(3) ohne zu berühren, mit Hilfe von einem Längenmaß
(Zollstock)
(4) Hilfsmittel: Blatt A4-Papier und Längenmaß (Zollstock)
(5) Bei einer Federwaage gibt es einen (linearen)
Zusammenhang zwischen dem angehängten Gewicht und der
dadurch
verursachten Ausdehnung der Feder, die
sich z.B. mit einem Zollstock messen läßt. Hat man mit
mehreren bekannten Gewichten
die jeweilige Ausdehnung bestimmt, dann
läßt sich in umgekehrter Richtung aus einer gemessenen
Länge ein
unbekanntes Gewicht ermitteln.
Bei den obigen Versuchen gibt es auch einen
experimentellen Zusammenhang zwischen der gesuchten
Meßgröße und der
als Länge meßbaren Ausdehnung einer
Aura. Dieser muß vorher wie bei der Federwaage in einem
Testlauf bestimmt werden.
Here is a list of bets
offered by the
author
Suggested wager for each task: 20 euros
- Find out a shaken
beer can in a group of unshaken cans
or
shaken beer bottle in a box of unshaken ones (1)
- Distinguish
carbonated / non-carbonated PET mineral water
bottle (unopened) (1)
- Two cylindrical
bodies made of metal have to be distinguished. One
is a tube, the other a solid cylinder.
The ends are
covered.(1)
- Four full AA
batteries and one empty one, find out the empty one
(1)
- Detect ("see" or
feel) magnetic field in a weak bar magnet and
distinguish its magnetic poles
- Five identical
screwdrivers, one of which is magnetized. Which one
is it?
- Ballpoint pen:
nib cocked/not cocked? (1) (view of tip and end of
pen is obscured)
- Direction of flow
of water in a garden hose ? (1)
- "Direction of
flow" of light in a sheathed optical fiber? (1)
- Direction of flow
of a small direct current ((z.B. 10 µ ... 100 mA)) in an
insulated copper wire several meters
long lying outdoors on
the lawn.
- Sign of the phase
between current and voltage from a small AC current
in the lead to a resonant
circuit (resonant
frequency f0 about 5 kHz) at f0
-10% and f0 +10%).
- On the lawn is a
50 m extension cord (cable drum) in the shape of a
U, the two ends are not visible.
The cable is connected at one end
to an electrical consumer (fan heater) and at the
other to the mains.
In which direction does the
electrical energy flow?
-
Sort four laths of equal length cut out of a piece
of wood according to the direction of growth
-without
observing the grain
(common direction of the lumber was marked
invisibly to the subject before cutting).(1)
Same test with
sections from a drawn or rolled metal bar
(aluminium, iron, brass) (1)
- A garden hose
filled with water is placed on the lawn. Is the
water under line pressure or not? (1)
- Distinguish raw
chicken eggs from cooked ones (1)
- Determine compass
direction north without compass etc. or sun
position, accuracy better +/- 1 °,
Auxiliary
means: e.g. a sheet of A4 size and turntable with
angle scale on tripod
- Celestial
direction North with overcast sky also without aids
+/- 5°.
- Determine
cardinal direction east with an empty wine bottle,
deviation smaller than 10°.
- Determine
direction perpendicular to the Earth's axis (90° -
latitude) with an empty wine bottle,
deviation
smaller than 10°
- Direction
perpendicular to the earth's axis (90° -
geographical latitude) Deviation smaller than +/-
2°.
Auxiliary
means: plastic tube approx. 1 m, 10 cm diameter,
wooden frame with inclinable holder for the tube
- Distinguish a 50
ct from a 1 € coin from a greater distance (2) -
without eye contact (4)
- Distinguish a 50
ct coin hidden under a sheet of paper (e.g.
envelope) from a 1 € coin at close range (1)
- Distinguish from
a greater distance (2) an opaque cup of warm water
from one at ambient temperature(4)
- Several used
banknotes with the same denomination are divided in
the middle and placed in two piles a
greater
distance apart (2). The respective halves can later
be identified again by the serial number.
Task: for each
half in pile 1, find the matching half in pile 2 by
distance.
- Homeopathy: two
vials of globules: are they the same active
ingredient? (2)(4)
- Two vials of
globules with the same active ingredient, which one
contains the higher potency? (4)
- Bananas from two
different hands are separated, which banana belonged
to which hand? (1)(4)
- The transition
from shadow to sunlight can be felt with the end of
a wooden slat. The observer stands
behind a
shady wall in sunshine and finds the edge of the
shadow by feeling with the wood without eye contact.
- An object (e.g.
amber, wax candle) was divided into two pieces. On a
large free surface (soccer field) one
puts or
throws one half. As the observer moves around the
area, holding the other half in his hand, he can
lay several
bearings from different points, taking a bearing of
the location of the object to within a few meters.
- Two metal rods
each of copper and zinc (thick about like a pencil),
length about 10 cm . Two of them are
placed on top
of each other touching at about right angles:
Copper/Copper Copper/Zinc Zinc/Zinc and
covered with an
A4 paper as a screen. Find out the copper/zinc
version. (1)
- A pressure sprayer, e.g. for
garden plants, with a built-in air pump and pressure
gauge is pumped up.
After a test
run with open conditions, the observer determines
the dimensions of the aura at different
pressures. He
then determines a pressure unknown to him from the
dimensions of the aura.(3)(5)
- At an accessible railroad
track (station) the temperature of continuously
welded rails is to be determined with
a linear
measure (folding rule). Auxiliary: There is a graph
with the relation between temperature and
measures of the
aura above the rails. (3)(5)
- An opaque plastic bucket is
suspended from a thin wire, which can be filled with
several weights of equal weight.
After a test
run with known weights, the observer has to
determine the number of weights in the bucket
which is then
unknown to him. (3)(5)
- A direct current flows through
a semiconductor diode. Using a step switch with
different resistances, the
current can be
set in steps of approx. 10%, 20% ... 100%. After a
test run under open conditions,
it determines
the switch position from the dimensions of the aura
without visual contact to the switch. (4)(5)
- For an assortment of
capacitors of the same type (e.g. ceramic) but of
different capacitance, the test
person
determines the expansion of the aura in a test run.
He then determines the associated capacitance
value from the
dimensions of the aura without visual contact.
(4)(5)
- On a wide road with
little traffic, a car is driving in front of the
observer's vehicle at a distance of about 100 m
and at a speed
of about 100 km/h. Is the vehicle in front an
electric car?
- Nine concrete stones
(paving stones) lie distributed on the ground
(distance approx. 1m).
A tenth stone
is irradiated with an LED flashlight for ten seconds
(the lamp is placed on the stone)
and then placed
with the nine others. Which one is the most
irradiated?
- An object known personally to the
observer (a unique object) is placed by another
person on a free area
within a radius
of several hundred meters. The observer is supposed
to find the place. He gives the
direction as
the crow flies to this object, walks to the target
area and then finds an area about
five meters in
diameter where the object he is looking for has been
deposited.
- A stringed instrument
(violin, guitar) has tight strings. It is usually
kept in a box during transportation.
Find out
if the box is empty or if the instrument is in the
box.
- On a paved area, road
(paved, asphalted) it rained some time ago.
Afterwards, it dried and has not been
walked on or
driven over since then. If (with video recording) a
person has now moved across the area
on foot, by
bicycle or by car, then the observer can find their
tracks and mark them with chalk, for example.
- A disc (beer mat,
CD-ROM, grinding wheel) is connected to an axle and
a ball bearing.
A motor with a
friction wheel, which is held against the
circumference of the disc for a short time,
can be used to
temporarily rotate the disc. Depending on the
orientation, there is a left or a right rotation.
The observer is to
determine the direction of rotation of the disc
(paper cover) at several different
settings
without visual contact. (5)
- Kitchen paper, toilet
paper, aluminium foil, cling film are usually wound
on cardboard rolls.
Depending on
which end you look at, the winding is CCW or CW.
You have to
find out, without looking at the ends, which
orientation the roll has. Aids: running water or
flowing air
(hoover) in a hose through the cardboard roll and
observe the resulting structures. (5)
- It is possible to
determine the location of underground tunnels, mine
tunnels, Berlin Wall escape tunnels
from above
ground - without any aids.
- A rope is laid out in a
V-shape on the lawn. At the bend, one half of the
rope is illuminated with the
beam of
an LED torch in the direction of the end of the
rope. The test person can walk to both ends of
the rope
and find out which one is illuminated.
- Several test tubes are
filled with dry quartz sand. One of them was
irradiated from the side with an LED
for about 10
seconds. Task: Which glass was irradiated?
- Some drinking glasses
are filled with dry quartz sand. A small bar magnet
with a diameter of 5 to 10 mm is
buried horizontally
in one of them. Task: in which glass?
- With Munich white
sausages, the mass is pressed into a thin natural
skin. If you peel off the skin
lengthwise
before eating, the skin comes off well when pulled
against the direction of the drip.
In the opposite
direction, however, parts of the mass stick to the
skin.
Task: in which
direction was stuffing done?
- In archaeological
excavations, it is advisable to examine the terrain
with physical methods at the
beginning
(prospection). It is also possible without
technology: every mechanical intervention in
the
ground (foundations, posts, wall remains, paths...)
leaves behind transitions, i.e. boundary
surfaces
in the perceptible quality of the material, which
can still be detected by sensitive persons
when all
visible structures are covered or overgrown. Task:
walk the terrain line by line and draw
up a plan of
conspicuous structures.
- Cisterns for
fire-fighting water have an access from the top,
which does not necessarily have to be
above the
centre of the container. Task: determine the
outer edge of the tank (position, shape).
- Using heavy or light
thoughts, change your own body weight for a few
minutes in the range of +/-100 g.
- In most communities the
supply lines to 20kV transformer stations are
underground. Task: Starting from
the station, mark the
rough course over a length of several hundred
metres, e.g. with chalk on the terrain.
- Homeopathy: A vial of
globules e.g. Arnica D30 in the original packaging
is to be distinguished from an empty vial
that one has put into the
same packaging. (1)
- Homeopathy: Two vials of
globules are to be distinguished. Are they the same
substance or are
they different substances?
- On a free and easily
accessible area (field, path) the task is: "From
here in the direction of view, a long straight
piece of a
long-distance gas pipeline* crosses within a
distance of up to 500 metres.
a) What is the
compass direction of the pipeline, b) in which
direction (to the left/right) does the gas flow?
* also water pipe,
sewage pipe, electricity cable
- In the case of
geological shifts, e.g. faults, a line is drawn on
geological maps indicating a fault line of the
previous earth
movement. The angle of this line to the north-south
direction is called the strike direction.
Such faults can
be found, for example, in the northern edge of the
Harz Mountains or the southwestern
edge of the
Fichtelgebirge. Task: Find the location of a
fault line in the given target area and its strike
direction.
- The route of an underground
runs under an easily visible and accessible surface.
The task is:
a) Where is the
track? What is the main direction (compass heading)?
b) In the next
two minutes a train will run along here. When will
it pass?
c) If the line is double-tracked: In which tube is
it running?
similar places like e.g. Nuremberg:
Langwasser-Süd, Nuremberg: Am Bauernwald
(Ziegelstein-Herrnhütte),
Fürth: Rednitzwiesen
(Stadthalle), Berlin: Spreebogen, Hamburg: Steinfurt
Diek
- A concrete sewer for sewage or
rain usually runs in a straight line from one
inspection chamber to the next.
Task: Indicate the directions to the two (or
more) neighbouring inspection chambers of a manhole.
- Supply lines such as gas,
water, sewage, rainwater, telecommunications,
electricity between two neighbouring
small villages are usually laid along
the connecting road. Task: on which side of the
road, for example, is an
electricity line located?
- On a large car park of a
supermarket there are usually many islands with
lighting and curbs with rain drain inlets.
Task: where are lines for electricity and
rainwater to be found?
- A washing machine is in the
spin cycle. In which direction does the drum rotate?
Use an LED torch as an aid. The machine is covered
with a cloth so that you cannot see into the window.
- A person thinks intensively
for one minute about a familiar object (unique
specimen) at a distance of 1 to 10 km and thus
creates a thought trace to this destination.
Task: find the track on the Google aerial photo and
determine its final position. (Accuracy at the
destination about 500 m)
- Take several washers, e.g.
galvanised steel, with a bore larger than 12 mm. One
of them is irradiated with the beam of a laser
pointer along the axis for a time of about half a
minute. Task: Which of the washers was treated?
- A hand mixer has two whisks,
one turning to the left and the other to the right.
Take two glasses of water and stir each for about
two minutes, one with the left whisk and the other
with the right whisk. Task: find out which glass was
stirred with the left or right whisk.
- Several wax candles (Christmas
tree) (e.g. 7) are placed on a table. The test
person sits to the side of them and is supposed to
find out whether the number of burning candles is
even or odd. The direct view to the candle flames is
blocked e.g. with a board / cardboard.
- Homeopathy: three identical
vials of globules (same substance, same potency) in
the original packaging, one of which is irradiated
for 10 seconds with an LED at close range. Which
vial was irradiated?
- A person (actuator) sits
opposite the test person. The subject cannot see the
hands of the actuator (covered with a cloth). The
actor connects two fingertips of the left hand
(thumb and index finger or thumb and middle finger)
to form a loop. He then passes his right thumb
through the loop from below and connects his right
thumb with the index finger or middle finger of his
right hand from above. This also creates a loop with
the fingers of the right hand. Task for the test
person: Combination of thumb and index finger or
combination of thumb and middle finger?
- A thumb-thick metal pipe about
half a meter long: version a) a small plug made of
toilet paper is inserted into one end, version b)
one end of the pipe is cut at an angle. Both
manipulations are not visible when looking at the
pipe from the side (covered). At which end is the
plug or the diagonal cut?
- In the early days of computer
development, there were "core memories", which were
small rings of magnetizable material (ferrite) that
were threaded onto copper wires. When writing, a
current was sent through the wire, magnetizing the
ring. In a similar way, perforated plastic disks can
be "written" by moving material through their holes.
Task: Several CD-ROMs or DVDs are untreated. An
elongated rod, e.g. a pencil, is dropped through the
hole in a disk. The test person has to find out
immediately afterwards which disk it was.
- Two thin sheets of titanium
and tantalum (or aluminum / copper) are
approximately 10 cm * 6 cm in size. They are each in
a sealed A6 envelope. Which material is in which
envelope?
- From a drawn metal rod (steel,
brass) with a diameter of about 5 cm, three slices
with a thickness of about 4 cm are cut off and laid
flat on a table at spacings of a few decimeters
each. Task: The disks must be arranged in such a way
that they have the same orientation as before they
were cut (1). To do this, the subject can instruct
an assistant from a distance of two to three meters
to turn the slices over if necessary (head/number).
- Two drinking glasses (about 10
cm high) stand next to each other on a table. One
glass is half full of water, the other is empty. The
subject stands to one side at a distance of about
three meters. So that he cannot see the contents of
the glasses, a paper screen about 10 cm high is
placed in front of them. A cylindrical biological
object (carrot) approx. 15 cm high is placed
alternately in one and the other jar by an assistant
(determined at random using a dice). The subject can
only see the upper (dry) end of the object. Task:
Which glass contains the water?
- Three half-full drinking
glasses A, B and C filled with water and two carrots
about 15 cm long: For a period of about five
minutes, one carrot is placed in glass A with the
tip (root side) facing downwards and the second
carrot is placed in glass B with the tip facing
upwards. The test person is then given the three
glasses of water in turn and asked to find out which
one contains the untraded water. They are only
allowed to touch the glasses and not the water.
- Three previously unused
CD-ROMs (or DVDs): two of them are rotated for a few
minutes on an open spindle (removed from a CD drive)
in different directions (printed side up/down or
motor voltage reversed). The motor is operated with
a reduced voltage, so that the spindle runs at about
n= 1400 rpm. Task: Which CD was not rotated?
Which direction of rotation did the other two have?
- Has a CD/DVD ever been played?
- Determination of an electrical
charge (flowing current [mA to A] over a few
seconds), using a conductor loop and a pierced
plastic disk (CD-ROM, DVD).