Experiment - Salt and Symbols
Content
- Introduction
- Required material
- Analytical method
- Symbols and their meaning
- Results
- Error analysis and conclusion
Introduction
This experiment is about to see whether symbols have an influence on lifeless matter. So we let some salt crystals grow in plastic cups for one week.
Required material
You need only few things for this experiment. Petri dishes you can buy at mail order for little money. Sodium chloride is to find in every kitchen. You should take pure table salt, so that no minor components can bother.
Salt (halite) is a cubic mineral. Sodium and chloride ions alternate in the grid form. Salt is soluble in water, if the water evaporates the salt becomes a crystal again.
Method
We chose 9 different symbols and prepared a control group without symbol. The symbols were printed on paper and placed under the lucent cups. (For every symbol and the control group there were 4 cups, so we had 40 cups on the whole.)
Several hours there was as much salt as possible solubilized in a jar with water, which was filtrated and then we spilt 20ml in every cup.
Then we had to wait how the water evaporates and salt crystals were formed.
The Symbols
The 666: This number is generally seen as a number of evil. It is also named as number of the animal or number of the antichrist. But three 6es are also used in the bar codes of products. Also in the numerology a special importance is attached to the 666. You get the 666 if you summate the squares of the first seven prime numbers. On the opposite, the 999 is often seen as a divine number. Since there is no real up and down in our experiment, we expect mixed results.

Flower of life: The flower of life forms by the drawing of circles, where the intersection points are the centre points of other circles. So the model is created. The symbol is often used for water stimulation or suppression.
The geometry of this symbol is also called holy geometry.

Coiphis: Coiphis is an Ingmar symbol. It stands for energy bundling. It bundles energy and connects single components (ions) to a whole (salt crystal). So this symbol might benefit the crystallisation.
Heathen cross: The Christian cross is just a modification of the Heathen cross. A horizontal line (Earth) and a vertical line (heaven) cross each other. So it symbolises the relation between heaven and earth. The Heathen cross additionally features a circle. The circle symbolises unity and perfection.
Hexagram: The hexagram is used in many religions. It consists of two equilateral triangles. The triangle with the barb showing up symbolises the masculinity, the triangle with the barb showing down symbolises the femininity. It is the symbol for the Merkaba. It is also a very strong engery symbol which presents unity.

Flor: Flor is a Larimar symbol. It should neutralise radiance. Because of the protective effect we expect the salt crystals to grow better.
Platin: Platin is an Ingmar symbol. It stands for complete orderliness. The order should take a positive effect. But completion is rather related to humans. So the effect on salt is vague.

Yin Yang: The old Chinese symbol stands for extremes und that they form a whole only together.

Skull: The skull with crossed bones symbolises poison, death and ruin. Because salt is lifeless, the symbol should have no effect.
Results
We could see clear differences in the salt crystallisation. But how should we evaluate them? As single neutral data we could take the inertia of salt crystals. This was measured with a precision scale. We summated the inertia of all 4 cups of a symbol. The divergence amounted 2% up to 16%. So only the hexagram, flor and coiphis have a significantly higher inertia of salt crystals.

This is completely different if we take a look at the crystal form.
While Hexagram, Coiphis and Flor produced many small crystals, 666 (or 999) produced only two very big crystals.
Also Yin Yang, the scull and the control group without symbol formed less, but big crystals.
Platin, the flower of life and the Heathen cross produced many middle-sized crystals.
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Error analysis and conclusion
After every experiment you have to ask yourself: Which possible sources of errors are there?
In this experiment the concentration of salt is essential. Since all cups were filled with the same dissolution, they should also have the same concentration of salt.
Also the solar irradiation may have had an influence.
So the results are not quantitative. But if you have a look at the different crystal forms, at least you can say qualitatively that the symbols have an influence on the salt crystallisation.
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