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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:08:28 -0500
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From: Inna Barmash
Subject: Re: [CYBERIA] a story that might be of interest to cyberians
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This is a really interesting project at Princeton, and it's been going
on for decades. (see the book "Margins of Reality" -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/015657246X/qid=1108619801/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-8298211-8744829?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
I've taken the tour of the laboratory and participated in a couple of
the experiments (as a guinea pig, that is). The feeling there is quite
surreal, and they have dramatized the setting in the lab itself quite
well. The random number generator is a huge machine with a downstream
of little balls, which the subjects - through the power of immense
consciuos concentration - make go one way or the other. They also have
a wave-simulating machine, which supposedly echoes the patterns of the
Jersey shore waves.
For at least some of the machines, the researchers have found a
significant effect not only with people in the same room, but subjects
as far as Australia, AND even in the future - influencing the "random"
outcome of the past ...
It'll be interesting to see if the significant effects are amplified
with more and more subjects pitching in through this international project.
--Inna
Paul Gowder wrote:
Check out this article re: random number generators
apparently influenced by consciousness:
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649#121
the Princeton project that this is connected with:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
This is fascinating, and potentially groundbreakingly
huge stuff.
God, how I want to go back to school and study math
and physics. Maybe in a few years I will.
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