If a crystal in salt water has the same effect as touch / nearness, and wood amplifies it and increases the effective distance...... And my video where touching wood lit the cfl only happened when the spark gap was jumped by said touch on wood or cfl,

THEN..

'touch' causes an energy gain to the system.

Also, when I connected only one end of a coil to negative line from ignition coil, voltage increased; spark gap doubled in length..

Tesla said hertz neglected the damping effect air played around the circuit, and this is why hertz mistook longitudinal compression waves for 'standard' em waves.

I'd say we're affecting the local aether stress and thus how energy can move thru system (or not)

I'm doing some experiments into dielectrics and Electrets as soon as the materials arrive in post. I hope to find more answers.. :-)