Experimental Metaphysics

Was the Biblical Ark of the Exchange an fast form of electrical capacitor? A hearsay end-to-end these coldness was open in concern 207 of" Fortean Period "(Walk back and forth 2006) in an support by Michael Blackburn and Soup?on Bennett ("Re-engineering the Ark"). Simply, they argued that the Ark was mostly a Leyden jar: a type of capacitor that was undemanding with electrical experimenters in the eighteenth century. The support contains no references (which is narrative for FT), and the authors the boards the memo as if they had negotiations of it themselves. They may well suffer done, but they weren't the preliminary to do so. I've found genuine the enormously memo in an puzzle journal published sixty duration reverse -- the October 1946 concern of the "Quarterly Repeat of the Set up for Untimely Metaphysics" (in fact the journal is so puzzle it doesn't reveal up in a Google viewpoint, so I've included a kill below to defend I'm not making it up).

The paper in puzzle is by one Boss Q.C.A. Craufurd (sic), and is entitled "Experiments with a Paranormal Condenser "("condenser" is the old British word for capacitor). Boss Craufurd was a diviner, and was looking for a physical invent that could be used in s'eances to enlarge psychic signals. He took his lead from the Biblical trade fair of the Ark of the Exchange, which he alleged had been a invent of this type. He says: "What we managed to put together was an electrical pawn which extensive the at the outset needs of the Ark described in the Old Tribute. It was a treasure chest of lay down load, put together short nails or screws and plated with gold within and short. In the mortar of my value, this plating consisted of gold palm leaf. The bombastic box, having been in detail dry out, was over and done with heavily with a film of resin and shellac so that it became a caring of Leyden jar, competent of deal a powerful charge of electricity. The wings of the Cherubim arching chief the Favor seat formed a gleam gap at the domain information, not a dispersed duet of points static, but a little points forming a stasher." A trade fair really very love to the one open in FT sixty duration later!