From: Doug <do@not.spam>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Kirlian Effect?
Organization: gte.net
References: <79n077$n0e$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>


Sanjai wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the silly question on what may be a pseudo-scientific subject, but
> I'd like to ask about corona discharge imaging, more ubiquitously known as
> Kirlian photography.
>
> I remember back in highschool, a teacher of ours, who was into all the
> new-age holistic stuff, showed us a picture of a plant seed that had been
> taken thru Kirlian photography.
>
> Around the image of the seed, was an aura-type image that resembled a flower
> in full bloom -- even tho it was just the seed that was being photographed
> in this manner.
>
> Is such an image possible? Or was it just a hoax, or maybe just the
> imagination trying to insert an image into the picture?
>
> Please reply to av482@torfree.net as I don't read this group very often.


Kirlian photography is more appropriately called
"Corona Discharge Imaging Turned Hermann Rorschach Imaging"
promoted by a bunch of people who claim to see what they want
to see in those pictures. I wouldn't call it a *hoax* per se
unless those doing it are purposely ignoring what they're
actually photographing or that they are in fact trying to
mislead people.

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