[CYBERIA] a story that might be of interest to cyberians

[R.A. Hettinga]

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From: Inna Barmash <ibarmash at ALUMNI.PRINCETON.EDU>
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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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