Cause I have very little else to do and my brain can always use some excercise, I’m writing a little about what I thought it was about, here we cut right to the chase.

The subject (observer) is irremovable from the object (observation). Plato espouted this a long time ago, its pretty elementary stuff.

As the subject predicates the object, the object is subject to the predications of the subject. Thats where the controversy starts, since science becomes a conglomeration of subjective POVs predicating objective measurement, how the BLEEP could you measure this phenomenom objectively?! (or anything, for that matter)

So science and mysticism split inexorably once again, suprise suprise.

Dr. Emoto ought to publish more information about his process, but that might have an impact on his book sales.
Perhaps the experiment would be reproduceable if thoughts and intentions were reproduceable, and measureably so.

More seriously, I smell a definite whiff of “psychic influence” behind the supposed pan-animism.

For example, what if I taped the name “Osama bin Laden” to a glass of water? To me and most Americans, that would be a strongly negative word. To certain Muslims though, his name is regarded postively. So which crystals would form, beautiful or ugly? Same goes for “Tom Delay,” “Abortion,” or “Reaganomics” – who’s to say which are positive or negative?

Well, presumably that way we can find out which political party water belongs to. Should each molecule get a separate vote, do you think?

Not really, because from the observed evidence we can make predictions about future observations of similar kind *or of different kinds*. ie, if our hypothesis about the observation is correct, we would expect to see x, y, and z. If our hypothesis is incorrect, we might expect to see a, b, and c.

For instance, if they hypothesis is continental drift based on continental boundary shapes fitting like a puzzle, one isn’t limited to seeking a second observation of a megacontinent breaking up. Other subsequent observations can confirm the hypothesis, such as evidence of mid-ocean subduction or spread which would provide a mechanism for continental drift.

It’s science if it’s independently verifiable. Also astronomy, paleontology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, & sociology can exploit ‘natural experiments’ where even if we can’t control or recreate the conditions of an event we can compare the outcomes of similar events in a variety of situation.

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“All of which brings to mind what sort of nutcake Cyclops has been married to. If you ain’t the Phoenix, and the Phoenix killed billions, and you can only read minds and levitate crap…. why dress up as a psychotic cosmic genocidal lunatic? Or take that name? Or wear her colors?”

Can’t you people just give it a rest already!! Just once you accidentall;y incinerate one lousy planet, while temporarily insane and fleeing blindly across the galaxy mind you and because it happens to be inhabited, all of a sudden you’re another Galactus. Like the Shi’ar haven’t killed way more than that. Repeat after me, ‘It was just one planet’. Say it! Don’t make me turn you into crystal.

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If Dr. Emoto was working with Bizarro while experimenting or if he switched to the Mirror Universe, what would happen?