Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation

Area of Science:

• Geophysics
• Human Physiology
• Electromagnetism

Background:

• Dowsing, the practice of locating underground resources, has traditionally been explained by ideomotoric movements.
• Previous studies often dismissed dowsing due to a lack of verifiable physical mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

• To re-analyze historical dowsing experiment results.
• To investigate potential physical phenomena underlying dowsing reactions.
• To explore the influence of radio frequency radiation on dowsing.

Main Methods:

• Re-analysis of recorded human reactions during dowsing field experiments.
• Comparison of dowsing reactions while walking versus in a moving, window-covered car.
• Correlation analysis of reaction points with environmental factors like radio tower proximity and wave incidence angle.

Main Results:

• Highly significant correlations were found between dowsing reaction points in a moving car and along a walking path.
• These correlations were not universal across all test locations.
• Results suggest a potential link between dowsing responses and man-made radio frequency radiation (FM radio, TV broadcasting).

Conclusions:

• The ideomotoric explanation for dowsing may be incomplete.
• Human bodies may absorb radio waves, leading to unconscious hand movements influenced by standing waves or multipath propagation.
• Environmental radio frequency radiation could have interfered with 20th-century dowsing experiments.