ABSTRACT
Research on “pyramid power” began in the
late 1930s. To date, many documents on “pyramid power” have been published. We
have been conducting scientific research on the unexplained “power” of a pyramidal
structure (PS) since October 2007. The research focuses on the detection of a
non-contact effect of the unexplained “power” of the PS on biosensors (i.e.,
edible cucumber sections of Cucumis sativus “white spine type”) placed at the
top of the PS. In this paper, in particular, we compared the non-contact effect
of upper and lower biosensors placed in two layers on the PS apex, and we
analyzed the difference of the non-contact effect due to the difference in the
layers. The magnitude of the non-contact effect was represented by the
calibrated psi index Ψ(E-CAL) calculated from gas concentrations emitted from
the biosensors. A method to determine the presence or absence of the
non-contact effect by analyzing the gas concentrations was developed by the International
Research Institute (IRI). Ψ(E-CAL), which represents the magnitude of the
non-contact effect, was the average value of the respective non-contact effect
of the upper and lower biosensors stacked in two layers on the PS apex. We
conducted the analysis on the assumption that the non-contact effect on the
upper and lower biosensors might be different. Therefore, we considered that
upper and lower biosensor calibration was required for Ψ(E-CAL), and we
introduced a new calibrated psi index Ψ(E-CAL)Layer. Scientifically rigorous
experiments to date have detected Ψ(E-CAL) with statistical significance and
have demonstrated potential power of the PS (p = 6.0 × 10-3;
Welch’s t-test, two-tails, the following p values are also the Welch’s t-test
values). Based on data demonstrating the potential power of the PS, we analyzed
the non-contact effects on the upper and lower biosensors of the PS apex. We
obtained a surprising result that the non-contact effect on the upper
biosensors (farther from the PS) was larger than that on the lower biosensors
(closer to the PS) (p = 4.0 × 10-7). This suggested that
the characteristic of the potential power of the PS, which is considered to
exist near the PS apex, is distinctive. We also found that the non-contact
effect due to the potential power of the PS varies with the season, and is
large in summer and small in winter. In our discussion, we proposed a model
that could theoretically explain the experimental results that the non-contact
effect on the upper biosensors at the PS apex is larger than the lower
biosensors. In proposing this model, we assumed that there were two different
types of potential power at the PS apex and that the biosensors had two
different gas-generating reactions. In a simulation using the model, the
experimental results were well approximated in which the non-contact effect on
the biosensors differs depending on the difference between the upper and lower
layers. The results of this paper are the world’s first to prove aspects of the
“pyramid power” through scientifically rigorous experiments and analysis. These
results will become a new field of science in the future, and their broad
applications are expected.