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by regularfry
1015 days ago
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While I can't immediately see an obvious physical explanation for what's going on either, that doesn't mean it's not worth investigating. That's how a lot of advances happen. "Hmm, that's odd" happens first, understanding comes later. |
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What seems to be happening is a whole lot of anec-data that has various problems which do not allow someone to draw useful conclusions.
The problem a lot of folks have is "We've been planting things in the ground using centuries of study on the subject, something so novel couldn't possibly work!"
Putting together some experiments with a little rigor to try to identify (a) if plants are growing better in this environment and (b) what, specifically, is causing that growth and (c) altering the experiment to focus on that "what" ruling out other possible side-effects[0] would be helpful.
It seems like something that could be done by an amateur as the equipment involved for a lot of this is inexpensive while the upside is huge if it turns out there's something to it.
[0] Specifically the mention of lighting strikes affecting Shitake mushroom growth -- which could be any number of crazy things that happen when lightning strikes something -- would be necessary.