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These source material is not great. We won't say where we got it right am I think that once we make it through the these structure, part will will be Humphrey Puzzle Ray. I mean pleasant crystals like their theirs worth understand and going to the trouble of understanding, because they are basically a a finger in the eye to the tendency of the universe to move toward chaos in disorder, because a crystal is the most ordered structure in the universe. A pattern the repeats over and over and over again, so much so that in a crystal, if you look at a I'd perfectly formed pure crystal that that came to be under, I your conditions, the shape that you're looking at, if you

zoom in to the smallest three d two unit of atoms inside that crystal, it would be the exact same shape yeah, I mean that is one. The one positive I took out of this article was just That thing early on the author did about the word crystallize that we take colloquially color, go away couple the shells in there that we take that What everyone knows? What that means that a means, like you know, someone his distilled and made order out of something tough with there. With their mouth words right. Like an makes. So when you, when you think about it like an actual physical crystal, you get why that word came from that, because it is that it is this stream order. Where

These molecules come together as friends to be perfect together. Oh those, so we both of crystals for basic the same reason. It sounds like rain year in like that, before searching this. I just thought I don't know like crystals were just things you buy and little five points. Then the ship with the the cookie person who you now where's them on their forehead for healing shoppers started before they require and added at an even realise that its like crystals, are also salt in sugar and snowflakes yen diamonds and rubies. It's it's like your euro crystals horizontal turned me so are you chuck thanks? Can we all be crystals in our heart? Should our heart? Shoppers? Yes, so yes, big, take away! For me too, was the m the fact that crystals aren't necessarily a thing

the red tape, a structure that a thing can fall into. You know me add and there, in their seven basic shapes or lattices, that a crystal can take a cubic tribunal. Try clinic author humbug, my I meant, try a hexagonal, tetragonal and Monica Clinic Monarch Clinic. I don't, I think, there's like ten people on the planet who say that were not allowed ever so, how are you gonna say Rebecca the cave in nine of them or email us right so yeah? and again those latticed shapes that you describe. Those are three dimensional structures, arrangements of atoms and the crystal itself that you can sit in, holding your hand be like I can feel the energies is pulsating through this. If you resumed in the smallest three dimensional arrangement of atoms that that forms a pattern that can

repeated the minimum size pattern, that is repeated is called the unit cell, that is the exact same shape, but I just I can't I'm going to say that five different times, I think in this episode, so there's two okay and I m o hate, sorry Y know revert again started, but do you mind if I do will plug here? Woe no you're, not gonna, feel sure Josh's Crystal shop. So I just real, quick everybody. Jesus is really poorly places net money. It's great we're not talking about crystal so it's good So I wanted to plug I'm minute. Do some life shows Chuck yeah? I'm going to be in Minneapolis at the Parkway theatre June Torrent, you nineteenth: ok, ok

the next night, and you never used to be a these places. Yes, you are, I ve got a firmer, see reserve for you and it's gonna. If the media have actually a cardboard cut out of you sitting there server, you know, don't don't notice of Czech didn't show up in order me this next night you're going to have to travel to d C, because its role, at the miracle theatre on June twentieth us, and if people were so inclined buy tickets, they can go to the deep, our theatre, dot, com or the miracle theatre, dot com in their tickets. There an ice, MRS ended, the world material, correct, yeah! Sorry thanks for their I'm! So bad at this! The the it's the end of the world live in whether you see listen to the end of the world series by now the podcast series and made or not you would still get something out of this- is going to be a pretty cool, show cuz. It kind of takes these themes and expand on him and explores other other avenues, other blind alleys that I go down in the series, I love it,

they'll go everybody go go go! I appreciate that course. So obviously we're talking about crystals again now, yes crystals can be very small like, and we in our great snowflake episode is a pretty good example, right or they can be very big and the longer these crystals grow. The bigger there I get they're gonna have fewer contaminants, although as we will learn when we talk about gemstones those contaminants or where they get their brilliant colours right. Yes, a kind of want contaminants, but most crystals from from what I understand our colourless like most dumb it pure crystals, are colourless, pure just don't see pure crystal. It's different from different thing, so the you hit upon something I think is also worth pointing out, like usually when people think of crystals again there. Thinking of like that little five points, hippy shop, kind of crystal and you imagine it being formed in like a cave or in some sort of

Fischer in the earth or something like that somewhere inside the earth, but, like you said, snowflakes, they form above the earth. Salt forms on this earth surface. These are all crystals, so get crystals, not necessarily just a thing. It's a it's a structure, its repeating pattern of an arrangement of atoms that repeating a crystal an arrangement, later. To remember this order, really just gonna have the the smacked in year your forehead shocker is could carbon can be arranged in different ways, so the same the same molecule of carbon can be- and in a way that makes it graphite or makes it a diamond so chemically speaking diamonds and graphite are the exact same thing crystal logically speaking. They are two different things because they form two different crystal

structures right and, if you're confused by saying the words little five points two times, we just assume everyone is from our neighbourhood in Atlanta, but that in an area of Atlanta where you can find a drum circle her by crystal server can stocks or some I incense or a pure crystal or profit your crystal owner if there is a pretty good hollowing parades him yeah yeah, it's great its roots remain fairly unchanged. Since I was hanging out there in high school, it's gonna get a great in that way. I would think just about every city has its own version of little five point. When you yeah absolutely I've been to them in every city. Okay, so they go. So that's over talk about what we say. Little five points, everybody guess:

how will we say low five points everybody gets so armed, let's crystals are somehow like white. An actual crystal is made from four how it's made. I guess no, I still can't come up with the word That's what I'm looking for yet as it can get really confusing. If you think about the fact that crystals can be salt or snowflakes or semi conductors or computer or a television as liquid crystal it. It's and I know you'd hammer this home, but is that it's really all those things, because crystals are a formation right bright. So if you take Adams of a certain type of righty usually ions or a big early, like predecessor, Atom of crystals Ion Sir Leda pot. Pa height their positively or negatively charged adamses an iron rights or they got an extra electron, they are missing an electron.

Something went horribly awry with their electrons and convert. This, with into a charged Adam and those ions in other, I am repel certain kinds of ions and they start to clump together in a certain and they walk depending on the eye on or eventually the Adam, think you have to have ions to have Chris's its think they're, the most common basic type Adam that you find any crystal at, but depending on that in a crystal yeah, but depending on the type of I honour, Adam that start setting off this. Action of other Adams into a clump. It's going to start to form a three dimensional model. What I spoke about earlier, what are called units and that little three dimensional model is going to start attract

more atoms in another three dimensional model, the exact same varieties going to be built, and now you ve, just gone from a unit, sell the most basic unit of the three dimensional shape of a crystal into the lattice, which is the build out of that. That unit upon unit upon you upon unit that just can keep in going virtually indefinitely yeah. It's almost like they these islands are attracted and when they get there, they see what's going on. What can a party there haven't sure, and there like that, looks great to me yet, like I'm jump in there, and why would I want to mess it up by being any different yeah, I really feel like falling in line it's kind of a fascist piece of matter. If you think about it, a crystal is yeah and there were another couple of decent descriptions or metaphors. I guess in this article

firms of long range order and short range order. I thought that made a little bit of sense if, if his crystals, like you said, can they can be a single store, or it can be a very large structure and if its a long range order they like in it to like Half time banned, all marching in formation like two hundred people, altogether and synchronicity. Like that. Ok, that's! Under about right, yeah! I just found that deeply confusing? Where I got it now, wants you explained it? I got it a short range order. On the other hand they like into that marching ban, gathering around into smaller subunits right, and this is more like a liquid crystal, like you would find in a tv monitor, yeah and so from the research there. I saw this

in short range. Chris, was almost didn't even need to be mentioned in this new article, because the EU has so few it appears, and so few places there really when you're talking about crystals it almost by definition, has to have long reign. Structure. Yemen usually think almost always of crystals are solid manner right, exactly it with with basically short range is just this crystalline, structure, the unit cell forms over a few Adams and anything be That is long range and that's when you start to get near the money crystals, I guess is what you call him yeah. You won't take a break sure you feeling ok, so far, emirate Amity him We will be right back everybody, we're gonna, go breathing new paper bag we want to tell you about the Subaru love promise that

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ok we're back. We went through three paper bags. It's a funny. After eleven years we still care enough. We can feel a granting a buyer fingernails, but we still pushed through and generally get it right up, I'm good with generally correct and most of the time we get it right, the others, There's that little bit of impunity in those impurities give the individual podcast their brilliant Hughes. That makes some very nice so on theirs or to talk about how crystals form. Right again, we were talking about Christmas again

to you? The thing that's coming into your mind is an amethyst, or maybe even your ear, savvy enough to know that precious gems are also crystals like sapphires rubies, or something like that. That's pro He was coming into your head. What you're seeing their what your imaginings, brilliant beautiful translucent perfect shape with a bunch of different facets better on display here? That is the kind of crystal boy you're talking about is a kind of crystal that formed under ideal conditions and those ideas. Conditions are very rare, which is why gemstones tend to be pretty rare, more often the not what what you'll see nature- or you know just on the ground- or you know in some kids backpack. I don't know from grasping at Israel's right now are what are called Polly Crystals, where the conditions that the crystals for we'll talk about how crystals forming a second but their condition,

They formed under we're, not ideal, and there were a bunch of different kinds of atoms present in so rather than forming one beautiful single crystal because again, when you have this giant beautiful tetrahedron of amethyst. In your hand, that is one that's considered one single crystal it's one giant crystal. If you have a big rock with a bunch of like gum pyrite in it just kind of sparkling back at you. What you're holding is a countless number of individual crystals that all kind of grew together and read. There, then form one beautiful crystal, they formed one. Big lump or mass, and it's still a bunch of crystals in a crystalline structure. It's just multiple crystals in his call the Polly Crystal, and that's what you see much more frequently because it and conditions for crystals grow under our infrequently ideal right- and this is I step in and make the one joke that I thought up during that which

tetrahedron of amethyst was the best. Yes album here is a good one. Yes, I have to say the estimated the second to iron maiden in beautiful, album covered their pretty good day, a great ones so polychrome contrary to what you might think or hear or read, not stronger than single crystals, because it's like I mean economy, since, if you're assembling a model from a hundred pieces, it's probably not as strong as something that's made from one thing right, because they join. It's gonna have weak points that a million per cent right right. Because again, if you, if you realize that a beautiful giant crystal, is just one solid piece all those little smaller crystals. They they're gonna break apart much more easily Keziah of weak spots. They're not joined together with these amazing

coveys in ionic bonds that are holding that that single crystal together right. So it makes sense in that respect sure. So, let's talk how crystals are formed you want it is really basically just three ways: they form whether whether their human made or made in nature. They basically come about three to four, yeah and I'm in a skip out of order here, because for the kids out there you can actually grow a crystal at home. Yes, in pretty short order, and it's pretty neat. So if you are a kid or if your apparent with some kids, I hears what one kind of funding. You can do, and this is how to make a crystal out of a solution which is one of the three ways. You can actually grow a sodium chloride. Salt crystal who you in just a few days it's not that kind of thing. You need to wait around like a year for millions of years. That's right! So did this kids. You need gets him whatever can I saw you

and you can just get regular sodium chloride, table salt, some distilled water glass like Bell Jar, any kind of glass is great and then a spoon you stir salt in the boiling hot water until no more of it will dissolve and you're gonna start to see some crystal start starting to appear at the bottom of this and make sure the waters is close to boiling as you can get, then you get up That solution into that clear jar, and you put the spoon there's just to make sure the the jar does it break than always helps. Ok is that of we gotta do source of on the physics of it someday, yeah yeah. I remember that was an old like waiting tables trick when you made iced coffee, which is just what we did was just poor, hot coffee and a big thing ice. Sure Wallis's pre, hot coffee, critical, brew, right

So then you suspend a string that string that I told you about into the jar from a spoon and just laid across the top of the jar. So it's hanging down in that solution and then just such it for awhile, and you will literally see crystals forming the string over the next few days, yet really really cool. It is very clear, Then I saw another experiment you could do at home. It's got a couple extra steps, but you can make a beautiful kind of magenta colored crystal you with them straight up: alum men. A couple of things you grow oh, a seed crystal and you use that dangling like on a string like you're saying, but it actually grows more crystals up to it as well. So you can grow the severe home in the both of those are crystal grown from solution right and crystal grow from solution. Is it like you? can you put in salt in the hot water until you can't dissolvent anymore. That means that these salt, where the water has become saturated with salt,

No, it cannot hold any more salt right, sorry ts, but that salt gotta go somewhere and it will eventually be forced into a solid state, especially as that liquid cools, because water, that's warmer anything, this warmer means that that the atoms and molecules are further apart, which means there's more space for salt, but as that water cools down that space shrinks and that's how it's got to go somewhere. So it turns into the solid state and forms crystals, and is that that happens with salt. At a relatively cool temperature at a relatively low pressure, you know basically sea level pressure on earth by that same thinking, then under water and hydrothermal vents, it can happen,

with magma inside the mantle of the earth. There's there's this that shit. That conditions can change sea of different temperatures, different pressures, different types of atoms and, though form under those different conditions, different kinds of things, but crystals can form anywhere they they can form on the surface of the earth again in clouds in an inside the earth itself yeah and if you're, going to grow from a solution like that, I like to do in your kitchen, you can produce a crystals much much faster and produce bigger crystals than you can with a vapor deposition, which is Mina snowflakes, which we ve about a lot on the issue, which is basically survey productive, as is a basically the same thing. It instead of a liquid solution becoming super saturated gaseous solution has become supernatural saturated and so that-

water vapor? Can't the air can't hold any more so it pushes it into a solid state, inform snowflake. Yeah. Then there's a third method from growth from melt which is really kind of interesting and there's a few different ways to do this to, but basically what you're doing recalling a gas until it's a liquid and then showing that liquid until it starts that you know crystallization process, and there's there's a few ways. There's one called crystal being or the year ago the cross key method. And this is- is a human made method of creating crystals yeah I was name from a polish scientist by the name of the cross key Kashmir, funk nineteen fifteen. In this. You know all these involve actual machines, and this you know when you hear about superconductors and stuff like that like this. These are man made. Things are human made things.

And methods and processes that people figured out along some time ago, right Crystal pullings, pretty not so amazing, you see any videos on yeah. I watch the videos and looked it like some still. Images of the machinery of it is pretty cool. So it's like you see that science experiment I found where you created crystal and tied to a fishing line. You basically just hang it over the solution. This is that a very simple version of what they're doing, with crystal pulling your using a seed crystal that is basically providing the structure for this solution below it. Yeah you just touch that sea crystal just to the solution in it basically sets off in attractive chain reaction. That creates a crystal. So you slowly raise the crystal upward earlier that seed crystal upward and the crystal follows it, out of the solution. It thanks arose from a marvel movie. Essentially yeah. You know it is that's

another reason why I love crystals is just the way that they form is So astoundingly awesome, then, in with crystal pulling in particular, this is kind of an old technology. I think it's from the early nineteenth hundreds one. Nineteen fifteen was when it was first invented and since then they and so good at it, and it's so perfectly automated that they can calculate how fast a crystal forms way under crystal pulling, and so they will have the machine raise that seed crystal at the rate of crystal formation, and now they can get to places where their forming crystals that have like there are afoot around in diameter remit that are just perfect, absolutely perfect, crystals, because also this Lucian that they're using that their dipping that that sea crystal into has been purified. So it's the absence.

Lee pure version of whatever you're trying to make a crystal out of so say that you could make diamonds. I this you got, you would have pure carbon in in. A solution usually melted, and then you would have a diamond. Dangling down as the seed and you grow a sea diamond. That's not how you make diamonds bill, that's how they that's what they do with them. Silicon actually and there's another method from grew from with the other melting method called the Bridgman stock Barker met, name for Percy Name for Percy, Bridgman and Donald such I guess. It's a Hardee right sure, right, ardor he's the art Garfunkel of Crystal fracture more on in front. I got this is used. When the crystal pulling method isn't so great for certain materials right and in this case you take it sort of like take an ice cream cone shape. A comical shape and new lower it. Fellow

fill it with more material lower into a cooler area, so cools from that very bottom Tipp, just the Tipp, just the Tipp upward and adjust kind of the same way it sort of works. Its way up joining the party say in this looks good ally. The way you the way you guys are shaped and ordered to jump right in Yasso is the tip of that co, goes further downward into the cold or temperature that crystal grows upward in the tube right. And then eventually have a whole too. That's just one one giant crystal the track, and then you think Gonna get that out of here and really MRS Health of away. I just got a beautiful crystal trapped in the economical I'm sure this shirt opens. Don't you think, That's. Where was the second aim in that Can't. Member Donald this, firstly- nor maybe this word donald- that I was his big contribution- was made having they living on the back. Imagine or something like that, so

If I were gonna put my money down and the best human made synthetic crystal process, it would be a and in particular, molecular Opposition deposition, molecular molecular beam, Epic, yeah- and this is one again where your growing I mean all of these can start with a base crystal and it grows from there, and in this case the base has to be just like atomic e flat right. That's a good and bad name to atomic. Suffice pretty get not bad math rock yeah, of course, so with it with the reason has to be atomic lay flat is because you want to build from a pure crystal structure and again, if you introduce Adams, especially like previously sorted Adams like the kind of atoms. You want to build this crystal structure out of

They will fall into this arrangement when their introduced to the crystalline structure. That's already there and then layer by layer, atomic layer by atomic layer will form a crystal with that. That's built how and with molecular beam. Particular you're shooting a beam of atoms across this perfectly flat substrate, and Are there introduced anyway, so they don't collide with one another. They just click click click right into place, yet again this. There were a couple of decent numb. Examples in here this one. They said, if you think, of a wreck, a billiard balls and if he did throw a ball on top of that it will. Come to rest somewhere. You know who knows where, but somewhere between them Other balls is not going be pretty amazing if it just sat

on top of one of the balls right, but that's not gonna happens, gonna find its place worth its best right. It gets him where it fits in yet another them. There was from round about right. Then there's chemical vapor depths. Which is the same thing, but instead of a beam of molecules that you're sending over that substrate over shooting vapor year, shooting vapor, Moreover, it in that way the Adams kind of link up to then it's faster right is faster and that they use for synthetic diamonds, you need a crystal now No, I needed it yesterday and over the diamond eke from the nineties Remember diamond Ega, remembered diamond oil and die? It's all the same. I am sure yeah cubic sir yeah. Those were probably just all trade names right. I would guess I share the diamond. Each is always stuck with me. Just sounded so: fancy

it's a nice name and then lastly, there's liquid phase at the which is pretty awesome. So imagine a solution have a that perfectly flat atomic substrate Crystal and you just lift it up out of the solution and, as it comes up out of the solution, a crystal just forms out of nothing amazing. Oh, my goodness I can't take a check you I'll. Take a break yeah, we'll take another break and we'll talk about gemstones and then Crystal healing and one that's all about ran after this. hey everybody. I want to talk to you about your website that doesn't look good and this hard to program because square space does it better yeah they do squares

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everyone gasp yes and clapped appropriately? So, but am it so while I was there, I killed some time at the Museum of natural history as easy to do, and I was just in Trance Day perfect we're doing this episode because of their the crystal display, their as well I don't wanna crystals- and I thought now we have it in- I thought. Well, we really should, and then I thought was skull, get a sandwich in the meantime- and I was to knock you over the head with a rubber mallet knock me out a loop happen and unknown any just passed out. The same, but the the mineral, dumb, the mineral and in crystalline Jem collection. They have there's just amazing, it's just so beautiful Just a little wonderland yours wandering around from case to case staring at crystals is really neat and there's one in circular that really caught my fancy, its they'll just look like ordinary, dumb bra

so whatever and then the light goes out in a black light comes on in this little display case in their fluorescent. Those were buried in the rocks, light comes back up, and then it goes back up and then back it is really amazing the watch- and I came on and your pants down Do you know follow my own everybody and selling this whole thing. So Jimmy sounds like we said a couple of times. They are crystals and here's the deal like, depending on the type of I mean when I calling them. In perfections or I guess, impurities flaws. Yeah flaws, shameful flaw, yeah, that's where they they get their color. So, like a ruby in a safer there, both Koran, damn but rubies are red because of a little bit. Of chromium, the other, This is a little bit of aluminum aluminum in the structure where sapphire comes blue because of iron and titanium instead right otherwise

a kind of the same thing: yeah, just some some of those some. Some chromium or some iron ore attaining Adam Adams get sucked into the mix they said hey, I kind of like this crystal structure thing, I'm an hang out here and they did they ceremony turn this blue watch this yeah and even the name crystal than that, come from the Greek from courts. It yeah that's what they called courts was crystal of, which is called drop. Which we take to mean as ice, and I in this article. I didn't see it anywhere else at the apparently the Greeks thought courts was isolated frozen so so It would never melt social dumb to me for the Greeks, I think Greece for a little hip her than that here, because I mean just think for a second Greeks and yes, you're right. This is something else entirely. But yes, we're crystal came from. Was that Greek

crystal oh yeah and courts I mean like amethysts is a kind of courts is just course with the right, of impunity that gives it color. Yet apparently they have not figured out exactly what gives amethysts purple color there's a debate over whether its iron oxide or manganese or some sort of nonspecific hydrocarbons. But if you take amethyst so remember crystal is just that. Mystery can be exactly the same like diamonds in graphite, right. The conditions are different under which they form, and so they form different crystalline structures in appear to be totally different from one. Another same thing happens with amethyst. If you take amethyst and the conditions are different in that the temperatures are much greater, it doesnt form purple amethyst forms yellow citrine near which is pretty pretty amazing. I love crystals

and me we can probably go on and on with different types of gemstones, but I think everyone gets the point, yeah yeah. I think they do. It like you, can take any gemstone and break it down and explain exactly what gives it its Hugh and but, but I think it's I think it's all here right. So that is how crystals form and for a very long time, people just kind of appreciated crystals. As further beauty or the shape or something like that thing we didn't say, I think we should say Chuck is a crystal at forms under ideal conditions will take one of those seven shapes you mentioned, but the sincere conditions are rarely of right. Deal they'll actually form other shapes under different conditions. Things like play

shaped, her table shaped bright or needle shaped a secular, a secular, so there's other shapes they can taken. People have appreciated these things. I was fever. Looked at a crystal, it's just like a shock what looks like incredibly sharp needles near or just a tumble of perfectly shape, cubes growing out of some lumpy rock or something like that. There's a lot too to appreciate their end. If you, if you subscribe to Crystal healing, which has become a thing again, This has been going on this idea that these things are not only beautiful with that they contain some sort of energy that humans can harness too maybe straighten our own energy outer overcome disease, or something like that that this has been turn on for thousands and thousands of years yeah. So just a quick shout before we get fully into crystal healing when that's all about

every encourage everyone to go. Look up. Some images of the Cueva Delos crystallise the cave crystals into our Mexico, I believe all if you want to see like some of the most beautiful stuff you ve seen in your life. That looks like something from a movie like it looks like the fortress of solitude. Right in Superman, yeah, just anvil. Viable these these images of spelunkers in likes. These caves were so. These crystals are believed to have been good, For like half a million years to really really something else, we have was one thing. So we talked about how fast that they can grow, or they can also take very very long time. Those are the big ones yeah there, the big one but also some crystals form just by nature. Slowly, whether their bigger small till it Garnett in particular, forms Adam Layer, atomic layer by atomic layer year by year, in so called

ten million years for just a two centimeter garnet to grow overtime. Amazing. So, like I was saying with this, with Crystal healing and the killer. These things are not only awesome or amazing a beautiful. They also supposedly contained some sort of energy yeah. I mean this is where it gets a little hanky, because this is one of those things that western medicine for the better term has pretty much generally food, as pseudoscience but the idea is that these crystals can care in transfer energy that can facilitate healing of like disease. Let's say so, you workers session with a crystal healer there. Get into whether or not those people are credential at all here in a minute, but and they will lay down on the table and they will put different crystals. Some crystals facilitate

some sort of energy, others facilitate another sort of energy and, they don't know, agree on on that as well should point out this kind of a big red flags to be and then these crystals replaced on your body in various points and they will you that that war, bring in good healing energy and channel out bad diseased energy yeah and in those for those points on your body, are actually pretty specific and they follow the Buddhist or the, do shockwaves right. So you ve got one of the top. Your head, you have on your forehead on your throat, your chest somewhere on your heart, your stomach, your gut and then around your groin for your route, Shaka tour and there's a different color stone that supposed to be associated with each other across and there's different stones. That can be roughly of that color that you could use for that shocker and then, like you, were saying they they free up energy like it. According to this, this idea energy can get kind of

looked up, and if you have a bunch of negative energy hanging around is gonna just do you, on until you get rid of it with crystal therapy that kind of stuff some crystals you can just put in a room and they will help direct energy better like um. I can't remember what crystal I saw, but it's it's it's known for its properties of facilitating commute patient. So really we should have one in here for me Jerry. I think people You know one another and they don't have to say the other. When saying this crystal kind of cure, that will let me and so are you are you that european tourmaline on so the The kind of this idea behind Crystal Energy and, as I was saying minute ago, if you follow this kind of stuff, there's a whole crew, the war, and this dates back thousands of years to the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Greeks all use crystals. For here

The problem is, there's absolutely no evidence that that's the case at all People have been writing about crystal since the classical Romans, but they didn't talk about the energy priorities they had. They just described them and tried to classify. Damn. It wasn't until the seventies and eighties that that that the idea that they contain energy really seem to catch on yeah and there haven't been scientific studies really done because mainstream signs just kind of doesn't study stuff that, but they have done some other kind of studies, notably Twenty years ago there was a but done at the end C of London, where they got if he was eighty people together and they here's. What we're gonna do, go meditate for five minutes, hold this courts crystal in your hand, they're not can it. They don't say this of course, but some of those are real crystals. Some of them are completely

faked, but they all believe that their real right there allied to read their plainly light, half of the participants, forty of them, were primed beforehand to say, you know think about any effects and see if you can notice any effects that these crystals are having so after meditating they did a q and a session Why should an air and said basically like how do you feel the crystal affected this healing session and they found out that the effects reported by those who held the fake crystal while meditating, where no different at all than people who had the real crystals, both reported feeling like a warm sensation in their hand, holding either fake of the rock crystal in both, reported feeling an increased overall feeling of well being people who have been primed. Those forty two near basically like thing but how you're feeling and how this crystals making you feel they report stronger effects than those who had now

been primed. So it all sounds like placebo. Well, that's you, that's! What they achieve to the whole thing is placebo, which, as far as western medicines concerned, placebos is great cheer. You know if it's, if you have some sort of ale, meant that this can help you get over through. The policy will affect fantastic, they. They seemed a kind of walk, a fine line with that, though, in that they are worried that people say all disused, crystals right here, so rather than chemotherapy and that probably won't work with placebo affection. Take on absolutely everything that ails you, and so, if crystals are based on placebo, that's one way they could be dangerous, but for the most part considered pretty harmless yeah. Just now that you're going in to see someone who is not like licensed or certainly not medically licence, but I think it baited generally in all states, there's no like licensing of crystal

dealers there's no organization? Looking over that? No, I think there are some organizations but the that that do a credit, individual healers producer organisations are an accredited we're gonna sell Zack. So it's like at some point down. The line seems like the accreditation this being pulled out of the air? yeah and then there's this other thing. It's a little more troublesome when it comes to babies. There's this belief by some baltic, Amber necklaces will help your babies teething. Have you heard about your tongue, now I hadn't heard this but the idea. Is that something called cyclonic acid is. Least its pain relieving in its released from the baltic Amber because your I was wearing this Nicholas and the skin of the child is heating up this Baltic amber and into being released and

gathered into the bloodstream and making your little kids teething better right. But there's then there is the cynic acid in Baltic Amor, it's true, but apparently the sick and one of those kernel of true things, because it's not it's been shown to be able to be released from the baltic Amber by saliva or body heat. So it's dangerous and it's dangerous, because you should not put a necklace around baby or toddlers neck when they sleep, because organ donor. They put stuff in their mouth. Well, that's what for them to TED honour these little necklaces made of this these stones, Nick theirs was to chew on him. I thought I'd just laid against their throat. No, I think this was to chew autumn this. What I got I'll have to look after I thought the idea was laid against their skin and it was absorbed into the skin through body heat. I think that's part of it, but I think it also they chew. On it, too, that's what I got from it:

from it boy you're really doing wrong. If you keep your baby necklace, did you on in their sleep so so, I have no issues with that, though I should say I used to carry around a crystal in my pocket all the time now, the time for years years and years and, like I don't recall, really thinking it. Contained in energy. Everything was more like this neat thing. They just kind of rub kind of like a fidget spinner, but but much prettier to look at you noticed something to have in your hand or whatever is keep it in your pocket. What ages with us like twenties, I think that explains lot. Yes you're. So why were ages appropriate for carrying a crystal round your pocket? Twenties? Ok, that's when that happens,

you listen to the doors, share everything you burn, incense and stuff, like that. That's right, so yeah, more power to interfere in the crystals is don't don't shun medical advice if you have a real big problem, no definite and that's all. I have one more thing about crystals Chuck. We gotta get yeah, ok, memorize, graphite in diamonds. Are the exact same thing: they're just arrange differently crystal wise yeah. I saw a couple different places that a diamond since their formed under tremendous temperature and pressure when their taken out of the environment and brought up to earth they. Over a long enough time period, melt into graphite, amazing, which is too long a time period for humans ever witnessed. So that's crystals get you to the Smithsonian. Whenever you get a chance, go the museum of Natural history and just go. He's in wonder

so I wonder how your pants got down when the light came back on and the tourism mineral display, indecisive that assent, Phyllis mail. Which one should I do here? How about nicknames hey guys, really enjoying short stuffs, and The nicknames episode was no exception, but I was surprised that you didn't go into the origin of the term, nickname think about it. I didn't either. I felt pretty soon I'd always assume this might sound so that the first tunic name was Nicholas shortened Nick, so they call them nicknames, but she did a little searching and said does not quite right, looks like that started as a middle english word in the thirteen hundreds E K. Daphne and pronounce nickname additional name so overtime, as people said, an echo s name, became nickname and its nickname.

Didn't have time to look this one up, but the adjusting lives here. Please I have you not serious wrong. She said my husband's aim is Nicholas's what got me thinking of it jumped to that conclusion? He could give A shout on us on your show showed great his birthdays next week, which means by now, it's probably a couple of weeks ago, so happy birthday, neck. Happy birthday cake and they are counting down the weeks until there, too, are born boy. Liz expect no baby girl and a baby boy in late June. There first children She said that we must do a lot of your show while pregnant forget Mozart, Beethoven. I'm convinced that listening, stuff you should know in utero makes baby smarter does listen, Nick in babies, it'll be named. Josh and secondary the three year. They need to have triplets on having chuck injuries a good name, ok, Josh, yet the outside

it could be judge and jury relationship. What avoidable Then his middle name is Jerry, Josh, Jerry and Chuck Jerry. I think that's how I think it s what thanks Jim Liz hope you're right on this one, because if not we're going to have follow up with your email from other people who are pointing out how you're wrong either way best wishes. On your new, expanded family and happy birthday neck, if you again, to this. Like Liz, did you can go on this stuff? You should know that camp check our social links or you can send us an email to stuff I guess it I heard radio dotcom study should know its production. I heard radios how stuff works from what had passed by radio! I heard radio apple podcast over every listen to your favorite Ok,

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