• Hamartiogonic
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    3 days ago

    I don’t even need to come up with my own BS, when I can just copy some crazy nonsense written by other people. Here’s a sample:

    UNDERSTANDING CRYSTAL VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES

    Every crystal on Earth possesses its own energetic signature, measured in Hertz (Hz) or megahertz (MHz). These frequencies interact with our body’s energy field, creating resonance that can promote healing and balance.

    As if sources even matter when traversing this deep in Crazy Town, but there you go anyway.

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      3 days ago

      Crystals do have their own energetic signature frequencies though! Quartz is a good example; we use its piezoelectric and resonance properties to make cheap but relatively accurate oscillators.

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        That article says it’s 32 768 Hz, which is strangely close to some of the figures you can find on wikipedia.

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          Brb making a necklace of crystal oscillators to heal and balance my body. (And yeah 32768 Hz is a pretty common value for oscillators; interesting the crystal pseudoscientists use it too).

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      3 days ago

      Two sentences there. The first is factually correct, though useless. The second is obviously complete bullshit, though strangely accepted by quite a few otherwise intelligent people.

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        Energy is a peculiar word, because it’s used by new-age loonies (and scammer), sci-fi authors and even real scientists. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist use the longer term “energy field”, but the first groups certainly seem to love it. When scientists speak of fields, they prefer to specify exactly what kind of field it is (e.g. magnetic or electric).

        If I ever get to own a (farming) field of my own, I’m going to name it “Energy Field”, just to mess with everyone. Maybe I should set up a solar panel there, so that the name actually made sense.