Experiment 8 and My "DUH!" Moment

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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08-03-25:

So even though the mung beans both inside and outside the pyramid in my last experiment were relatively close to each other, I had a concern that it might be possible that the ones inside the pyramid might have gotten a little more light and were therefore a little larger. Honestly, I doubt it, but as a true scientist, I must try to eliminate any and every possible confounding variable that could skew the results. So in this experiment, I decided to have two control samples, one on each side of the pyramid, to essentially eliminate any favoritism by the sun in making any of them grow faster. They don't actually get any direct light from the sun...but, you know what I mean?

So like in the last experiment, I soaked 10 mung beans each in 1-ounce containers with 1 tablespoon of water and then randomized them...

...placed them on their pedestals...

...soaked them for 15 hours, then removed both the beans and the water from their cups, added 4.5 teaspoons of dry sand to each of them, re-added the water, and then carefully placed the beans evenly spaced on the top...

...repositioned them on their pedestals...

...and then I waited.

Growth seemed slower than before, probably because the weather was a little cooler. After four days, they were just beginning to sprout:

And this is what they looked like after 10 days:

So perhaps you can see that some of the sprouts have flopped over: one on the left control sample, and two inside the pyramid. This is because I had simply laid the beans on top of the sand instead of pushing them in a bit. It caused the sprouts to not get rooted very well so when I would add a little bit of water to them, it made some of them flop over, especially in the pyramid.

Normally, when you plant a seed, you push it in the ground a bit, but I was concerned that could skew the results if I pushed them in at slightly different depths...and that's when I had my "DUH!" moment: I could have placed an equal amount of sand in each cup, then placed the beans, and then added an equal amount of sand on top. [Homer emoji slapping his head while saying "Doh!"]

Anyway, here you can see the three samples side-by-side with the pyramid sample in the center and the controls reversed from the previous picture:

They look more or less the same in terms of growth, but looks can be deceiving, so I devised a scale to measure them where I carefully pulled each sprout out of their cup and measured each of their lengths. Because the roots sometimes broke off when pulling them out, I started their measurements at the base of each stem. Here are the pyramid sprouts:

I tallied up each of their lengths where they were equal to, or higher than, a given whole number. So for the pyramid sprouts, it was: 16x2, 13x3, 9x1, 8x2, 6x1, and one dud. That comes to a total of 102.

And here are the sprouts from the control sample on the right (from the previous side-by-side-by-side picture, not the previous previous non-side-by-side-by-side picture...you know what I mean?):

Their lengths added up to: 15x3+12x1+8x1+5x1+4x1+2x1+1x1=77. It also had one dud. The crowd goes wild as the pyramid sample takes the lead!

And here are the sprouts from the control sample on the left (not the one from the previous previous--ahhh...you know what I mean):

And the tally: 15x2+14x1+13x1+11x2+8x2+7x1+4x1, for a grand total of...106. OOOOOOHHHH! groans the crowd. While the pyramid sample handily beat the control sample on the right, the sample on the left just barely edged it out.

But for one thing, this sample did not have any duds, which obviously helped. And yes, it could be very true that pyramid energy might result in a higher germination rate, but sometimes a dud is just a dud. But the biggest factor in the results, in my opinion, was that I should have buried the beans under some dirt, and because I didn't, two of the sprouts in the pyramid sample flopped over when watered causing them to curve and skewing the measurements (none of them flopped over in this sample). By the way, the pictures were not taken straight overhead because it created a huge shadow from the light above it, so it might have made (in all three pictures) some of the sprouts appear longer than they actually were.

OK, I am calling this experiment a bust. We are all allowed a "DUH!" moment once in a while, so don't be a hater.

Hopefully, in my next experiment, I will turn my "Duh!" moment into an "Aha!" moment. Stay tuned.

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