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New Theories / How do Trees Really lift Water to their Leaves?
« on: 23/04/2005 12:07:06 »
Osmosis Capillary action and root pressure are accepted as the driving force for lifting water to the canopy of a giant Californian Redwood, towering a hundred metres and more? And these forces are producing flow rates up to and in excess of a 1000 litres a day in a single tree?
Another theory is that the leaves, which are porous, can somehow suck water from the soil and evaporate it through the pores of the leaves? Ever tried sucking on a straw with a hole in it?
Maybe there is another explanation:
Herald Express, July 6, 1995, page 19. (local paper in Torbay, Devon)
Eureka!
Cliff experiment pulls plug on 300 year old law of physics
A Revolutionary breakthrough claimed by a Paignton man is to be investigated by top scientists.
Ideas man Andrew K Fletcher claims he has disproved a fundamental law of physics dating back to the 17th century.
And impressed by the historic experiment at Overgang cliff, Brixham, to raise water 78 feet without the support of any artificial aids,
John Hunt, Senior forestry Officer for Devon and Somerset who witnessed the experiment's success last Friday said: 'It was quite impressive.
The rule that water will only rise 32 feet under atmospheric pressure when in a column was effectively disproved."
But Mr Hunt explained that he is a professional forester not a scientist and a report on the experiment would be sent to the Forestry commission 's Alice
Holt Research Station, near Farnham in Surrey, for further investigation.
Mr Fletcher's experiment involves a long water filled plastic tube, strung up the cliffside with both open ends placed in two filled demijohns.
A small amount of a salt solution is added at the top of the tube before it is completely filled with water, this acts as a liquid pulley says
Mr Fletcher, lifting water from one demijohn to the other, thereby disproving Torriceli's 17th century law.
This explains how trees can raise water to their tops beyond the 32 feet limit."
said an ecstatic Mr Fletcher. He believes that the discovery also suggests a mechanism by which all life on earth has evolved from the ground.
The Experiment at Brixham Overgang Cliffs where water flowed vertical up a single 6 mm bore tubing using 10 mils of salt solution, demonstrating that a tiny amount of denser solution can lift effortlessly many thousands of times it’s own volume in water without any artificial aids, demonstrating clearly a non living physical cause of bulk flow in plants trees, animals and humans. The 10 metre limit for lifting water clearly needs some serious revision. View The Historic Event on Youtube as it unfolded all those years ago and ask why has this important discovery been ignored for so long.
Radio Interview with Patrick Timpone on One Radio Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68PLE8MXJE
20 years ago Andrew made a phenomenal discovery in circulation and how gravity acts upon fluid density changes that take place in all fluids where water is evaporated. In trees (Where this theory began) evaporation from the leaves alters the density of sap. In the body, the warm lungs and airways provide the same density changes in the blood and other fluids. It was not long before it became obvious that posture was incredibly more important than anyone could imagine. To make use of these density changes and allow them to assist the circulation all we needed to do was to manage our posture.
This was a Eureka moment of such magnitude it went off the scale for Andrew and instantly gave birth to Inclined Bed Therapy.
Show Highlights:
-Andrew explains how learning about how trees uptake water led him to understand the benefits of inclined bed therapy
Video of the Brixham Experiment on Youtube:
Video introduction to density flow on Youtube:
Video of a scaled down version of the Brixham Experiment on youtube:
Video of a simple experiment to show density flow in boiling sugar syrup.
http://andrewkennethfletcher.blogspot.com/
Andrew K Fletcher
Medical Physics Newsletter publications:
http://groups.iop.org/ME/archive_newsletter2002010.htm
http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/med/Newsletter/2003_Archive/page_8262.html
Let's start with Osmosis
The work Of Professor H.T.Hammel:
EVERYTHING YOU WERE TAUGHT ABOUT OSMOSIS IS WRONG.
Osmosis is the reason that a fresh water fish placed in the ocean desiccates and dies. Osmosis is the reason that blisters form on fiberglass boat hulls. Osmosis is how waste products of metabolism enter and leave the blood stream. Osmosis determines how you, me and every living thing lives and dies. One would think that a civilization that spends billions of dollars every year on medical research would understand something as basic as osmosis. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Source: http://www.yarbroughlaw.com/Osmosis.htm
Or what about Root Pressure?
Roots can squeeze water to the tops of trees? You what?. ROFLMAO. Sorry but every time I read about root pressure it makes me cringe.
Or maybe capillary action? In other words, a tree is a giant sponge capable of blotting water from below ground level to heights in excess of a hundred metres at flow rates that can exceed a thousand litres of water a day in a single tree.
Does the cohesion tension theory suck? How can leaves create suction when there are pores in them open to the air? Is it not like trying to suck water through a straw with holes in it? And what about when the leaves have fallen in Autumn, where is this magical cohesion generated when there are no leaves?
And then there is the problem with Strasburger's experiments, where he killed all of the living cells in a tree suspended vertically in a bath of picric acid with the roots removed and observed the continued evaporation of the poison several weeks after the death of the tree.
Andrew
Another theory is that the leaves, which are porous, can somehow suck water from the soil and evaporate it through the pores of the leaves? Ever tried sucking on a straw with a hole in it?
Maybe there is another explanation:
Herald Express, July 6, 1995, page 19. (local paper in Torbay, Devon)
Eureka!
Cliff experiment pulls plug on 300 year old law of physics
A Revolutionary breakthrough claimed by a Paignton man is to be investigated by top scientists.
Ideas man Andrew K Fletcher claims he has disproved a fundamental law of physics dating back to the 17th century.
And impressed by the historic experiment at Overgang cliff, Brixham, to raise water 78 feet without the support of any artificial aids,
John Hunt, Senior forestry Officer for Devon and Somerset who witnessed the experiment's success last Friday said: 'It was quite impressive.
The rule that water will only rise 32 feet under atmospheric pressure when in a column was effectively disproved."
But Mr Hunt explained that he is a professional forester not a scientist and a report on the experiment would be sent to the Forestry commission 's Alice
Holt Research Station, near Farnham in Surrey, for further investigation.
Mr Fletcher's experiment involves a long water filled plastic tube, strung up the cliffside with both open ends placed in two filled demijohns.
A small amount of a salt solution is added at the top of the tube before it is completely filled with water, this acts as a liquid pulley says
Mr Fletcher, lifting water from one demijohn to the other, thereby disproving Torriceli's 17th century law.
This explains how trees can raise water to their tops beyond the 32 feet limit."
said an ecstatic Mr Fletcher. He believes that the discovery also suggests a mechanism by which all life on earth has evolved from the ground.
The Experiment at Brixham Overgang Cliffs where water flowed vertical up a single 6 mm bore tubing using 10 mils of salt solution, demonstrating that a tiny amount of denser solution can lift effortlessly many thousands of times it’s own volume in water without any artificial aids, demonstrating clearly a non living physical cause of bulk flow in plants trees, animals and humans. The 10 metre limit for lifting water clearly needs some serious revision. View The Historic Event on Youtube as it unfolded all those years ago and ask why has this important discovery been ignored for so long.
Radio Interview with Patrick Timpone on One Radio Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68PLE8MXJE
20 years ago Andrew made a phenomenal discovery in circulation and how gravity acts upon fluid density changes that take place in all fluids where water is evaporated. In trees (Where this theory began) evaporation from the leaves alters the density of sap. In the body, the warm lungs and airways provide the same density changes in the blood and other fluids. It was not long before it became obvious that posture was incredibly more important than anyone could imagine. To make use of these density changes and allow them to assist the circulation all we needed to do was to manage our posture.
This was a Eureka moment of such magnitude it went off the scale for Andrew and instantly gave birth to Inclined Bed Therapy.
Show Highlights:
-Andrew explains how learning about how trees uptake water led him to understand the benefits of inclined bed therapy
Video of the Brixham Experiment on Youtube:
Video introduction to density flow on Youtube:
Video of a scaled down version of the Brixham Experiment on youtube:
Video of a simple experiment to show density flow in boiling sugar syrup.
http://andrewkennethfletcher.blogspot.com/
Andrew K Fletcher
Medical Physics Newsletter publications:
http://groups.iop.org/ME/archive_newsletter2002010.htm
http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/med/Newsletter/2003_Archive/page_8262.html
Let's start with Osmosis
The work Of Professor H.T.Hammel:
EVERYTHING YOU WERE TAUGHT ABOUT OSMOSIS IS WRONG.
Osmosis is the reason that a fresh water fish placed in the ocean desiccates and dies. Osmosis is the reason that blisters form on fiberglass boat hulls. Osmosis is how waste products of metabolism enter and leave the blood stream. Osmosis determines how you, me and every living thing lives and dies. One would think that a civilization that spends billions of dollars every year on medical research would understand something as basic as osmosis. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Source: http://www.yarbroughlaw.com/Osmosis.htm
Or what about Root Pressure?
Roots can squeeze water to the tops of trees? You what?. ROFLMAO. Sorry but every time I read about root pressure it makes me cringe.
Or maybe capillary action? In other words, a tree is a giant sponge capable of blotting water from below ground level to heights in excess of a hundred metres at flow rates that can exceed a thousand litres of water a day in a single tree.
Does the cohesion tension theory suck? How can leaves create suction when there are pores in them open to the air? Is it not like trying to suck water through a straw with holes in it? And what about when the leaves have fallen in Autumn, where is this magical cohesion generated when there are no leaves?
And then there is the problem with Strasburger's experiments, where he killed all of the living cells in a tree suspended vertically in a bath of picric acid with the roots removed and observed the continued evaporation of the poison several weeks after the death of the tree.
Andrew