but you did not explain how you believe Avogadro’s number is related in any way to Homeopathy. It is just the number of "things" per mole of any given substance.
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Subject: RE: [Minutus] Astrology vs homeopathy
To:
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Date: Friday, January 16, 2015, 3:40 PM
"Avogadro’s
number, number
of units in one mole
of any substance (defined as its molecular
weight in grams), equal to 6.02214129 ×
1023. The units may be electrons,
atoms,
ions,
or molecules,
depending on the nature of the substance and the character
of the reaction (if any)."
I took that from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The
reason that sceptics keep mentioning that number is that
the
probability of a single atom still being present at a
dilution of 30C is
roughly 1 in 10 to the 37th power or 1 in
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. And,
of course, 200C would be 1 in 1 followed by 377 zeros.
Even if it were a physical energy that is trapped in the
remedy that was being prepared, it would still be reduced by
degrees exactly like the numbers typed above. Plus, a
physical energy would dissipate, like heat from an oven.
Also, the explanation of physical energy or physical atoms
does not explain why the remedies get STRONGER the more they
are potentized.
The only explanation that
works for me is that there is some transcendental
"energy" that is extracted out of the original
substance that is the result of the potentization. No
purely physical explanation makes any sense, whether that
explanation is atoms or energy. And when I say
"energy", I mean the physical energy whose
existence is not scorned by physical scientists who make
physical things happen, like bridges, automobiles, nuclear
power plants, etc.
I admit that this
explanation will not settle down the skeptics. But the
skeptics are already on the warpath concerning homeopathy,
and honesty forces me to admit to no other explanation other
than this one.
It is
true that this may be testable, but not using physically
dead devices like volt meters, etc. Dogs or bacteria or
humans can test this "energy", but non-living,
non-conscious devices never will.
This is my position, and I
am sticking to it.
Roger Bird
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