Experiment B - subjecting sunflower seeds to the action of a moving magnet.
Foreword.
.1 As the cycles of the seeds appeared to me to have a relation with magnetism, I devised an experiment - in this site called “experiment B” - during which sunflower seeds, broken into fine particles, laid in a thin layer on a round metal plate, are subjected to the action of a moving magnet, in order to give to the seeds a magnetic field which changes directions, in very short sequences, to see the effect on their local cycles.
.2 Soon afterwards, a light pressure is applied to these ground seeds, very slowly.
.3 In “experiments B”, where the same procedure is followed, carried out in successive hours and days, inside time windows, the spot on the edge of the ground seeds, where the first drops of oil appear, changes positions, imitating the movement of a diurnal tide, as seen from high above its basin.
.4 The position where the first drops of oil appear would point out where there are the magnetic conditions most suitable to produce the most fluid oil at the time of the experiment; that seems to change in dependance on the time of the day, for each day of lunar month, and also in dependance on the day of year.
Experiment B: procedure.
Results from the experiment ‘B’.
.5 The outcomes of experiments ‘B’ are artefacts; the events appear multiplied, as in a kaleidoscope; however, they show us the dynamics of the farmer’s seed cycle, though as seen in a mirror, and moreover with diurnal cadence, while the same seeds would show a semi diurnal one when not subjected to a magnet, in the same place.
.6 The experiment ‘B’ would have pointed out the possibility that different levels of the magnetic field strength could be the reason of the different cadence (diurnal, semi-diurnal) of the events here considered (the farmer's cycle in seeds, and, by analogy, the ocean tides).
Time windows.
.7 The experiment ‘B’ have also suggested the existence of “time windows”, later found both in the local cycles of the seeds, and in the generation of the ocean tides: that only inside stretches of time dissipative reactions due to the movement of the Moon and to those of the Sun can take place.
.8 In experiment B, the time windows turn out to be eight in a single day, and to occupy around 30 minutes each. While, when not using a magnet, the time windows for the seeds (in the places where this research was carried out) are 16 in one single day, and last only a few minutes each.
Further usefulness of experiment ‘B’.
.9 One cannot rule out that the experiment ‘B’ could in future give more useful clues, above all considering that up to now it has been carried out in all but ideal conditions, manually, without the necessary precision in the control of the variables introduced fortuitously by the inexact ways of performing it.