Unseen

_Robert_ wrote:
If a Galton board is tilted-off just a bit…well, a pinball machine will tell you.

Well, I’m sure a competent scientist would work hard to make sure the experiment was “on the level.”

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
…such experiments are viewed with skepticism and their results have not been reliably replicated, they are often relegated to the fringes of scientific discourse. This might explain why it’s challenging to find direct references to the specific experiment you recall.

JB Rhine’s claimed successes were eventually d…[Read more]

I thought you could find anything on the internet, but I can’t find this.

I distinctly remember on one of NPR’s serious talk shows a discussion of psychokinesis, and they talk ended up centering on experiment that tended to suggest some such ability even if weak.

The experiment consisted of a glass-encased board with a square matrix of…[Read more]

I don’t know the name of it, unfortunately, but there was a sci fi novel or short story about a man who wanted to go back in time to “fix” something (the death of someone important to him) and while he succeeded in going back in time, no matter what he did or how he changed the antecedent circumstances, they would still die then somehow.

That…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them.

Surely observing requires photons to knock into and bounce off something, therefore, potentially modifying it.

You’ve got it backward, Simon. Photons go into the eyes. They don’t shoot out of them.

@ Simon

If anyone wants an area ripe for investigation by parapsychologists, it’s psychokinesis since it seems experimentally proven that the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them. (Split Screen Experiment)

Simon Paynton wrote:
went to college with someone who was completely unsuited to her course, and her chart says “you will do things that you are completely unsuited for”.  I have seen a number of other weirdly specific accuracies.

J.B. Rhine was a scientist with a specialty in researching parapsychology. One of the main critiques of his rese…[Read more]

This is as good as any place to pass along a meme I made yesterday:

The Trumpster thinks that all Christians are evangelical and either play golf or are obsessed with it and share his obsession with crowd size.

Simon Paynton wrote:
Yes, a Christian said to me that heaven and hell must exist, otherwise there is no ultimate justice.

That is a summary of Kant’s moral proof of God’s existence. “Shit. If I eff my neighbor’s wife and never suffer for it in my lifetime, then if God isn’t there to send me to suffer forever in a burning lake of fire,” there is…[Read more]