Experiment 12: The Magical Question

My name is Craig Morrin. I have been building meditation pyramids for over two decades now, and I have decided to embark upon the crazy and most dubious quest to do something that has never been done, ever before: to prove through scientific experiments that pyramid energy actually exists. Subscribe and follow me every step of the way on my rise to eternal pyramid glory...or falling flat on my face.

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Every time I do an experiment, I learn something new. Actually, usually A LOT of things...and this experiment was no different.

09-12-25:

So I started this experiment same as usual, soaking three cups with 10 randomly selected mung beans each, overnight:

And in accordance with the mandate I received from God during my epiphany in the last experiment, after pouring off the water, I poked holes in the bottom of the cups so excess water could drain out and not drown the seeds:

Then I added 1 tablespoon dry sand, the beans on top, and 1.5 teaspoons of dry sand on top of them before carefully pouring the water on top to wet the sand:

Then I replaced them back upon their pedestals covered with cotton cloth, and waited:

After 8 days, I ended the experiment early. Here is a side-by-side comparison of the three samples:

Geeeeez. So the Right Sample won again. In fact, the Pyramid Sample and the Left Sample didn't even break through the soil (though they all did sprout). So what happened? A skeptic or someone who might not look deeper might even conclude that the pyramid had a negative effect on the growth of the sprouts. And I will be honest, had the results been reversed, where the sprouts in the Right Sample were switched with the Pyramid Sample, I might have been inclined to claim that pyramid energy was responsible. This is because I am biased. I want pyramid energy to exist.

So you might wonder: if I am biased towards pyramid energy existing and being proven to exist through my experiments, maybe I shouldn't be conducting these experiments. It is a reasonable question to ask. And the answer is: we all have biases. That is part of being human. The important part is that we are aware of our biases, and make every effort in our experiments to constantly ask ourselves if our biases are influencing how we conduct our experiments and interpret the results. And connected with this, is to always ask the question, no matter whether the results were favorable or unfavorable towards our biases, "Could there be another explanation?"

In the case of this experiment, there is. While the Mythbusters team that conducted their pyramid experiments back in 2005 would have undoubtedly concluded from these results that it proves that pyramid energy doesn't exist (because they were biased in that direction and were definitely NOT aware of their biases), common sense could lead one to a more reasonable explanation. First, even though the Right sample in the previous experiment (#11) was clearly the winner as well, the Pyramid Sample actually had the tallest sprout, and with the exception of this experiment and # 10 (with all of the duds), the Pyramid Sample always had the single tallest sprout of all of the samples. I make this point to counter any ideas that the pyramid could have had any sort of negative impact on the growth of the sprouts.

So then, what other explanations are there that could have caused the sprouts in the Right Sample to come up, but not the other ones? First off, mung beans like warmer temperatures, like in the 80s. As it approaches fall here in Washington state, the temperatures have started to drop, getting into the low 50s in my unheated workshop where I am conducting these experiments. Because I know that mung beans like warmer temperatures, during the day, I would turn on my fans to move the warmer air from the outside through it.

You can see the fans in the background, pulling in the air through open doors to the left of this picture. Essentially, the warmer air was moving in a directed current nearest the Right Sample (which is on the left in this picture, as I usually take the picture of all three samples from the other side). I didn't realize it at the time, but this undoubtedly made that sample slightly warmer, and therefore those beans sprouted first. Then, as the weather got even colder, even those sprouts stopped growing. Every dropped to a standstill, hence why I ended the experiment early.

So what did I learn from this experiment? That the slightest change in the environment around the sample can drastically change the results, and to always be vigilant to any such changes. And the other thing that I learned is that whenever there are significant results between the samples, I need to always ask what different possible explanations there could be for it--especially if the results are favorable towards my bias of wanting pyramid energy to exist.

So now that it is fall here, I am going to have to start using something else besides mung beans. For my next experiment, I am going to try sprouting Kamut, which does much better in cooler weather.

Stay tuned, and maybe we'll get more interesting results.

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