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From: Raymond Peat [mailto:raypeat@efn.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:18 AM
To: Argall Family
Subject: Re:
After reading of Clive Baxter's experiments in the 1960s I hooked a
microammeter to a leaf of my phlegmatic aloe plant, and there was no change
at all for a few hours; when the mailman came down the walk, my dog (who
hated people in uniforms) dashed barking toward the window, where the aloe
was. Instantly, there was an extreme increase in conductance. J.C. Bose
was the pioneer in measuring plant electrical/emotional fields, and he also
suggested that vital properties could be found in minerals. I think
Michael Polanyi's physics and Lancelot Law Whyte's formative principle
extended the implications of this attitude toward matter.
At 01:04 AM 8/24/99 +1000, you wrote:
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>The 'Travellers' Tales' column in the Far Eastern Economic Review
> http://www.feer.com is lighthearted, but this item appears to have
something
>more interesting..
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> TRAVELLERS' TALES
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>By Nury Vittachi
>Issue cover-dated August 26, 1999
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>GREEN PARTY: Lots of people talk to their plants. Scientists say it makes
>them grow better. But now, thanks to a wonderful breakthrough in Japan,
your
>plants can talk to you.
>All you need is a little device called a Plantone, made by Epoch Co. It's a
>box with wires. One wire leads to a rod, to be stuck into the soil, and
>others lead to clips, which you attach to the plant's leaves.
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>The machine is highly sensitive to changes in the natural electricity that
>all plants and animals have. It can detect changes of one ten-thousandth of
>a volt. These signals are converted into sounds (the range is three
octaves)
>and lights (the flashing diodes have three colours).
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>Once the plant is wired up, you and your family members can stroke the
>plant, try out various plant foods on it, or just stand near it. Almost
>immediately, you will be able to tell how excited it is. "A strong reaction
>will trigger a higher-pitched sound and the appropriate lights," the Nikkei
>Weekly reported. With many plants favouring certain individuals over
others,
>a whole new area of family arguments opens up.
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>The developer, Mitsue Ishikawa, said: "I thought it would be nice to know
>how plants react to external stimuli, such as being touched or approached
by
>someone." The Plantone costs Yen6,980 ($58) and is powered by regular radio
>batteries.
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>Now here's the spooky bit. When the devices were being developed, Ishikawa
>once approached the office late at night, when there were no stimuli
around.
>But he clearly heard the plants generating tunes to each other. What were
>they saying? Nobody knows.
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