Jeff Cook Coil

Some new visitors to this site may first be wondering, is there any validity to Jeff Cook's coil and the Jeff Cook Effect when no one has been able to reproduce it? Surely there must be some mistake or this is simply a hoax, right? The truth is, and this is really not up for debate, a good deal of individuals have indeed reproduced the effect and the coil successfully. It's just that no one has yet to publicly step forward to admit it. Why not? Well, that is the million dollar question, isn't it?

Mr. Cook has provided a number of people with coils that he personally assembled and discussed with them over the phone their findings, which were supportive and positive. Those individuals have been following his work since then and correspond with him today from time to time. Also, a larger number of individuals have witnessed the effects in person, some with curiosity, some with more questions. A few have admitted in Internet forums and groups brief confirmation of a handful of the claims, verifying some of the more important findings. However, when asked to sign their names to a list of sucessful replications, they ignored the request, as though it were never presented. The reasons as to why anyone might behave in such a way is actually complicated and perhaps even individual, but not really worth studying up on except perhaps from a social standpoint.

However, in terms of Jean-Louis Naudin's notorius "failed" replication effort, as well as CTLabs', which were both published on the Internet with fervor, the answers to why such failures would occur are quite simple. Yet, the reasons why capable individuals would make such obvious mistakes in their construction remains unclear.

Why Mr. Naudin's replication effort failed:

1) He repeatedly refused to construct the coil as Jeff Cook specified, particularly the air-core specification. And even when he did eventually use an air core, well after first plastering the negative results across the Internet, he continued to refuse to follow instructions on other important aspects.

2) His photos of the bending flame are also clearly against how Mr. Cook specified one needed to hold a lighter across the face of the coil to acquire the bending flame effect. There is a reason for this special handling, having to do with the shape and characteristics of the field, which was explained to Jean-Louis on more than one occassion. However, the test was not fulfilled and no more had been published on this from him since then.

Why CTLabs replication effort failed:

1) Very simply, a steel bolt was used for the core of the coil. Uh, huh??? This would obviously prevent the diamagnetic element of the coil to even get to stage-1 of the effect. There really is no great excuse for an obvious disregard to this, as Mr. Cook has always made it known how and why this is important.

How a Jeff Cook Coil really should be made...