Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oakhill.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!davet From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Possibly poor control? Message-ID: <461@oakhill.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 06:21:46 EDT Article-I.D.: oakhill.461 Posted: Sat Jun 22 06:21:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:26:25 EDT References: <2784@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx Lines: 33 In article <2784@decwrl.UUCP> wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) writes: >> ...a series of lamps connected in an approximately circular shape, >> and a ring counter... driven by a 'random' source. > it go in a certain direction, he need only wait till the > random chance comes up his way and say "There, I finaly got > it to move in the right direction!". The only way for this > experiment to be controlled is to give the subject a SPECIFIC > time interval and RANDOM direction each trial and to have > many trials. I'm willing to bet that the results will show > no statistical significance. > ... > If the experiment is properly controlled, the PSI ability to > influence the apparatus will fail. The directional lights I have heard about but do not know of the testing arrangements. However, I do know that physicist Helmut Schmidt in San Antonio has done numerous such studies with radioactive decay events and they are very specific as to when, how long, and which side of a double-event is to be hit. (A coin toss usually determines which side.) Studies have been done where the quantum events were taped and later replayed for the testing subject. Results were no different - the biases still occured. These are called PK time-displacement experiments. If the tests have been done properly and the results accurately recorded and interpreted, they would seem to indicate that there is something very important going on between the interaction of human (and animal) consciousness and quantum events. Not only that, but if the time-displacement results have any validity then it would seem that a profound change in our view of time itself may be required. -- Dave Trissel {ihnp4,siesmo}!ut-sally!oakhill!davet