As for the kinesiology experiment and the lifting bolder, I don't remember (and cannot find in the photos I took) one that would match it. There were some coral rocking chairs that actually rocked, and a heavy coral gate that could be swung with a firm push of the fingers.

Thanks for the response. I'm well aware of the Rock Gate, and other amenities of the Castle. I believe the "kinesiology" boulder was near the rock quarry from which he obtained his stones.

AAARRRRGH! I'm always catching these interesting shows at the very end. And when I go to follow up on them via research or otherwise, I come up dry! Even the website for Weird US has nothing on it. And I KNOW it was on that show. It's like some sort of metaphysical tease!

You can see by the following pictures that the chair on display today is not able to spin:

Either the original suspension was on some type of bearing to allow spinning, the spinning was only a partial twist left and right, or Leedskalnin did not spin in his chair. His bed is also suspended:

Most logical explanation is that suspension merely kept crawling bugs off him as he sat or slept, but it could just as well have kept him electrically and vibrationally isolated from the ground.

As for the kinesiology experiment and the lifting bolder, I don't remember (and cannot find in the photos I took) one that would match it. There were some coral rocking chairs that actually rocked, and a heavy coral gate that could be swung with a firm push of the fingers.

What was the theory about this seat?   And how did it help when it came to moving the huge blocks.   Does anyone remember?

Thanks!

I've been researching Coral Castle for years now (from afar). How fortunate you were to have an opportunity to visit!

I have a question (fire up your memory cells...). I was watching "Weird US" on the History channel a while back, and I caught the last bit of an episode on Coral Castle. After elaborating on the remaining eccentricities of that place, the two hosts were shown this large, four foot long rock. It was positioned horizontally on a pivot point, and one of the sides was concave. The "tour guide" had one of the hosts stand in front of the rock while the concave side was pointed away from him. He performed a kinesiology demonstration with the hosts arm (there was moderate resistance) and asked him to pick up an adjacent boulder. It felt normally heavy to the host. Then he pivoted the rock so that the concave side was pointed at the host. When he repeated the kinesiology demonstration, there was considerably more resistance from the host's arm, and the adjacent boulder was quite easy to lift.

Did you happen to see this particular boulder, or have any additional insite regarding its "operation"?

I wonder if anyone remember's the airplane seat suspended by the high ceiling in Leedskalnin's home?   I wonder what part that had to play in the "sound wave focusing" (I remember most of what the C's had to say about this), and building it all with such ease.

I can't help but think of the "purifing harness" from the Carlos Castaneda book's, the harness Don Juan used to help Carlos rid himself of ailment's the are not physical, and also to help him learn a few thing's that were only hinted at in the book's.

It makes you also wonder if Billy Idol's song, Sweet Sixteen, wasn't a "mis-direct", I could not help but think his "handler's" put him up to that one.

I have been quite interested in Cymatics ever since your post.  I read Hans Jenny’ book but it was not the highly technical book I was expecting.  Don't get me wrong I did enjoy the book and the pictures but it was not exactly what I was looking for.  I decided to build 1' x 1' plates and control the rate of vibration using piezoelectric transducers as you suggested but have run into a few setbacks.  I wanted to be able to control the plate vibration rate as well as the amplitude using a single transducer.  This appears to be a problem because these devices will vibrate at a fixed frequency and this is solely determined by the transducer properties.  There are a few things I could do such as building a driver and controlling the power fed to the transducer but this is more work than I expected.  I really wanted to run my tests at low frequencies (5-300 HZ) to study levitation effects (if any) on small pebbles or materials of different densities.  So, I changed directions and am considering using my computer to control the sound being fed to a hi-tech speaker.  I am looking for software (I have a few leads) where I can record single words & vowels and loop them to make a continuous sound pattern to be sent to the speaker.  The speaker is to be mounted similar to your suggestion to visavis.  I do think that several speakers will be required to be able to levitate an object and make it hold its position.  Let me explain.

First the incident and reflected waves must be somewhere around 135 degrees from each other.  If the reflected wave is 180 degrees from the incident a destructive wave collision should be expected.  If one speaker is placed directly underneath the object a pulsating up & down movement should be observed (on the object) and the object will not hold its position in space.  If the speaker setup is placed in such a way that the angle between incident and reflected waves is 135 degrees the collisions between the waves is reduced.  If a speaker is placed on each cardinal point (in relation to the object) and the sound waves are synchronized (same signal is fed to all 4 speakers)  one would expect the object to hold its position in space for there is a constant force (at 45 degrees in relation to the ground or grade)  on each cardinal point acting on the object.  Of course, this is assuming I am using the right frequency and the object can be levitated.  I honestly would love to hear your opinion on this.  I am considering spherical objects only at this time.

Regards

P.S. It will be allright to say I am nuts! hehehehe

I also tried salt, particles were too large and coarse for the small 4" surface, they just bounced around without any patterning.  I'm gonna give water a go...

One very interesting thing I noticed was I tried also putting my subwoofer next to the apparatus, laterally.  At certain frequencies, it would 'draw' the salt (on top of the latext drum) toward it... certain frequencies (only a few Hz away) would repel the salt, which would travel to the other side and fall off. 

Hmm... so I could just see the 'edges' of the phenomena so far.  I don't think I had a proper set up for a controlled environment.  But interesting, nonetheless. 

Another thing to try would be filling a brownie pan halfway with water and setting it over your subwoofer speaker, then looking at a light's reflection as you play different low tones. At certain frequencies you should be able to get somewhat stable patterns on there. The cheaper the pan, the better, because the more flexible the metal, the more easily the sound waves flex it to vibrate the water.

You got me going on this again and I think I'll have to give it a proper try. 

For a quick version, try stretching the latex over the speaker itself. Otherwise stretch and secure it over a tin can so that it's taught like a drum and goes "thwanggggg" when you snap it, and hold the other end as close as you can to a computer speaker or subwoofer. Try frequencies between 100-500Hz. Use baby powder or cornstarch or flour for interesting results. Here is a tone generator if you need one: http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/index.html

To do the "famous" cymatics experiments, you would need a thin metal plate connected at the very center to the vibrating source. So the center is vibrating, which sends out waves in all directions that then bounce back upon each other and create standing waves of certain patterns at certain frequencies. I haven't tried that yet, because ideally one would use a "piezoelectric transducer" instead of a magnetically driven speaker to turn the electrical signal into powerful and rapid vibrations. I haven't had the resources to do the job properly, so haven't attempted that one yet.

I did buy a granite plate once to record its resonant frequencies and try playing the tone back, but the sound waves weren't strong enough and I'd have to use that piezo transducer instead. Could probably shatter the plate if it hits the right note.

Was the latex glove on the bottom of the double-open ended can (so the powder was 'inside') or on the top (so the powder was on top)?

If you would like to try again with a cymatics experiment, find something that is both flat and flexible. The more pliable, the lower its resonant frequency and the lower the pitch you need to get results. You know, like a guitar string that is relaxed...it naturally vibrates at a lower pitch. Metal will work well if you have something loud and high pitched. Hit it with a spoon and you'll hear a high pitched "ting" -- if you can play a loud sound at that frequency and its multiples, it will work.

What I did once was stretch a latex glove over the open top of a tin can, then put the other open end over a speaker hooked up to the computer. With baby powder on top, I definitely got some patterns at certain frequencies. Nothing too fancy, but the powder would also clump up into little moving islands. I also tried drops of water, and that was pretty cool.