I know an aerospace engineer who uses long range locators because they work
for him without an explanation.
Rich
If he is an aerospace engineer, then he should at least know the concept and the working principle by research. Of course there are the ones who use LRLs and don't care. Those are mainly laymen operators who do not need to wonder about anything as long as it works.
The scientific principle of locating substances from long range is factual, real, sound and achieved by applying simple concepts of physics.
But before one investigates the principles, he needs to correctly interpret scientific evidences which might have been incorrectly taught at school and even oppose what his 'high school physics' preach.
Take magnetism for instance.
Do you think that only metallic objects are subject to magnetic attraction? When you stumble upon quite several people demonstrating their ability of stick metals, ceramics, plastic, etc. to their bodies, what do you do? Discard them as trick just because Mr.'Doc', your high school physics teacher did not tell you about it or you start wondering that science might be much, much more vast than you had first thought?
Real and genuine scientists, and I mean by scientist everyone who has in inquiring mind and study phenomena they do not comprehend by employing experimental work and by collecting data to substantiate the evidence, do not act like that.
'Scientists' who simply rush to tag phenomena who seem alien to their knowledge as 'non scientific' are simply poor idiots. Those will be doomed to remain in the dark for a long time.
My point that several and several aspects of scientific concepts are wrong, even today, has already been covered in the past in a few threads in this forum with factual evidences I offered.
A few months ago, I have built a LRL for my own use in which the sensor I developed contradicts standard electromagnetic theory proving Hertz was wrong. What's the big deal? Everyday a new scientific concept is revised. But only those that the Academia think will not become too 'traumatic' for the establishment.
This forum will still remain populated for some time by a few folks who insist in making fools of themselves fighting LRLs working. But 'perfect idiots' or 'self imposed naives' also have their time span to enter reality.