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really pretty timelapses, https://t.co/kl4HQ5bDnjWhat happens if you don't account for soil biology that impacts the nutrient uptake of plants?
If the plant was trying t o take up a nutrient in response to a certain color of light, but the nutrient was missing, it would explain his findings where the flow of the plant's cells stopped. https://t.co/pi82zpw6tE
The question to ask when encountering Ott's workis:"under what conditions?"You'll inevitably find they don't control for microbes or the inner terrain at all. This is true of any work stemming from jack kruze's influences.https://t.co/569X6KMKh1
I would love to hear Ott' thoughts on the imapct of soil microbiota and plant's light receptivity. And to tell him about how It could be a nutrient deficiency in his plants. It could be they weren't responding to certain kinds of sunlight due to a lack of a mineral.
He was a genius, and his techniques for studying this stuff are wonderful, but he overlooked things because at the time he didn't know about the impact of bacteria on plant growth. So many early pioneers overlooked this stuff and didn't control for it.
Same failure of reasoning crept into Ott's studies on children. It neglects nutrients!This is where Jack Kruze slightly falters in his thinking. He is feeding off the same faulty information. Afaict all the biophoton work was done in greenhouses too.
John Ott's work shouldn't' be treated as gospel. Like any scientific work, it should be questioned and prodded. His results aren't some holy relic to be left unquestioned. We should celebrate his work, and keep doing the same kind of research.https://t.co/DF8aRqxnf5
This is what I do. Uncovering overlooked aspects of all of these theories. Diving deep into the minutia, finding assumptions and just trying to throw my shit ideas at them.https://t.co/sPd4ZFoAN9
Anyway, if you are into art, or want to photograph insects, buy an ott light. They are very well designed. https://t.co/7tgZcuvUYG
If someone can figure out how to non-invasively recreate John Ott's work in natural settings... using time-lapses w/ microscopes, it would be really useful.I'd been working on a prototype that maybe could, but our living situation got fucked.https://t.co/tbOj1Rxx9T
Great video. That's the kind of thing I'm thinking of; stuff like that not being done during Ott's experiments.They manged to get seedlings to need half the fertilizer and improve water usage simply by mixing it a fungal network.https://t.co/hxBoWGPEjJhttps://t.co/XWavv4DkCt
Sure we may be able to use light to fuel biological processes, but have you tried to figure out how to enhance it?https://t.co/SXjFBQBC0j
Me and who?https://t.co/O2y858NrZd