Sunday, March 28, 2004

Physics and Psychics - Oil and Vinegar or a Blend?

In a paper titled “The Speed of Thought: Investigation of a Complex Space-Time Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena,” researchers Elizabeth A. Rauscher and Russell Targ present,

“In this paper we present a geometrical model of space-time, which has already been extensively studied in the technical literature of mathematics and physics.  This eight-dimensional metric is known as “complex Minkowski space,” and has been shown to be consistent with our present understandings of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and Schrodinger.  It also has the interesting property of allowing a connection of zero distance between points in the complex manifold, which appear to be separate from one another in ordinary observation.  We propose a model that describes the major elements of experimental parapsychology, and at the same time is consistent with the present highly successful structure of modern physics.”

At 33 pages long, and in a PDF format, the paper is a long read.  I’ve tried to picture in my mind the Bay Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA, where the researchers, I would think, research, to no avail.

Via J. Orlin Grabbe.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/28 at 11:34 AM
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