Experiment B : back to the foreword.
Experiment ‘B’ - procedure.
Subjecting sunflower seeds to the action of a moving magnet.
Instruments used in the experiment ‘B’:
(specified sizes, quantities and times are just those in the base protocol)
eb.1 - sunflower seeds, able to germinate (20 grams, coats included);
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- one instrument to grind the seeds with no coat into fine grains;
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- two metal round plates, one used as the base (ø 125 mm), the second used as the cover (ø 110 mm), between which the crushed seeds will be placed and pressed;
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- the bottom plate has a mark to be positioned towards the magnetic north; it is recommended to mark the degrees around the plate;
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- one magnet;
eb.6 - one instrument to press the two plates (it should be rather bulky, to ease the dispersion of heat in large quantity, thus preventing the increase of energy inside the system during the operation).
Procedure of the experiment ‘B’:
eb.7 - remove the testa (hard coat) from each seed;
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- grind the seeds to grains of 0,5 - 1,0 mm;
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- place the ground seeds on top of the larger plate, forming a circle of the same diameter as the smaller plate, which later will have to cover them (the seeds) completely;
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- position the magnet above the larger plate, pointing its north downwards, with its centre kept just above one point of the edge of the ground seeds, at the height of 25 mm.;
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- at that height, move the magnet round the circumference of the circle formed by the ground seeds, clockwise (as seen from above), thirty times, once per second;
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- place the smaller plate on top of the ground seeds;
eb.13 - soon afterwards, press the ground seeds, applying the pressure very gently, allowing the heat generated in the process to be released out of the system; the operation takes 4-5 minutes, while the pressure is increased to 25-50 kg/sq.cm.;
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- check for the place on the edge of the larger plate where the first drops of oil appear;
eb.15 - when that happens, stop applying the pressure, remove the smaller plate, record the point or the area where the largest amount of oil can be seen.
Note.
eb.16 Warning: applying the pressure in a short time it is possible to cross the threshold at which oil appears only at one point.
Expressing the outcome of an experiment.
eb.17 When I describe the outcomes of experiments ‘B’, I find it useful to use images. I may consider the larger metal plate as a 24 hour clock face, where the position of the first drops of oil may occur at an earlier or at a later hour. Alternatively, I may consider it as a compass, and to express the positions in degrees. Likewise I may say that the phenomenon occurs earlier (time) or steps back (space) when the values (hours or degrees) decrease, or, on the contrary, it occurs later (time) or moves forward (space) when the values increase.
eb.18 As an example, I then say that the first drops in an experiment ‘B’ have appeared at 24 hours. Using another image, I say that it has appeared at 360°, or at the magnetic north position. [additional example: at 6 hours 4 mins. /at magnetic 91° /near the magnetic East position; and so on - always expressed as magnetic positions.]
Experiments ‘B’ to be carried out inside "time windows".
eb.19 Experiments ‘B’ are to be carried out, during one day, inside a period of time that I call time window.
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There are eight time windows for each day.
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They change time, adding a delay, on average, of around 50 minutes every day. They seem to follow the lunar month.
eb.22 A time window appears to last not longer than 30 minutes.
Outcomes of experiments ‘B’ with normally tender seed.
eb.23 In an experiment ‘B’, carried out in a period of normal seed, as far as its tenderness, following the same procedure, the first drops of oil appear in a specific area; it depends on the time window chosen for the experiment.
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At present, it appears there are eight possible areas, each identified with the same number of its own time window. The eight areas are on the edge of the dish, approximately 45° from one to the next.

e.g.: if area <1> is at 45° magnetic east, area <2> is at 0° magnetic north.
eb.25 During the same day, the spot where the first drops of oil appear shifts positions anticlockwise (seen from above), stepping back 45° from one area to the next, every time window.
Changing protocol.
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If the experiment ‘B’ is not carried out inside a time window, it is indifferent either to execute or not to execute the operation of moving the magnet; there is not a privileged spot where the first drops of oil appear, according to the reference ocean tide at that moment.
Seasonal drift.
eb.27 Day after day, delaying the times of the experiments according to the delay forecasted for the tide of that day, the outcome is almost identical, except for a seasonal drift of the “areas”, something less than one degree every day, in one direction or the other. At the Summer solstice one finds a given “area” 100 degrees back than at the Winter solstice.
Outcome of the experiment carried out with tender seeds.
eb.28 When seeds are tender, the first drops of oil appear in more than one of the eight areas, apparently at the same time.
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For the time being, the interpretation of this fact is that during a period of tender seed the eight values of pressure necessary to get oil in the eight areas decrease; likewise also the differences among the eight values, each valid for one single area, decrease.
eb.30 Thus, during a period of tender seed, it is hard to stop the application of pressure before drops of oil come out in more than one area.