posted on May, 6 2010 @ 08:59 AM
Highdefinitionfilms...what were you thinking? Trying to introduce this subject by saying "Princeton EGG Color OFF THE CHARTS" is diabolically
confusing. Anyone who wants to understand what this is all about should have a look at the original work at princeton here:
www.princeton.edu...
The following is my bumbling summary of how this all started.
Robert Jahn, dean of engineering at princeton was confronted with the fact that a random number generator(RNG) that he built, which is basically the
"atomic clock" of RNG's became slightly less random when people sat in front of a computer and tried to change, with their minds, the readout
generated from the device.
A young psycology student had wanted to see if people could influence random systems with their minds as part of her psychology course and since no
one at princeton would help her perform the experiment Jahn, being a good guy, said he'd do it as it would be a good opportunity to put the silly
idea of "mind over matter" to rest for once and for all, thinking that since he would construct and run the trial within the stringent protocols
used in the physical sciences it would surely fail to show any positive results. (He was a total skeptic of course, being the dean of engineering. )
Anyhow, people were found to be able to produce a measurable and repeatable deviation in randomness in the output of his device. Being the hard nosed
engineer that he was(he actually wrote the book on rocket science...no really) he had to accept the results of his experiment at face value and is now
an ardent supporter of the idea that consciousness is an objective force of some sort, one that exists apart from all the known forces. It is worth
mentioning that him and his team ran enormous numbers of tests over a period of three decades and the results were consistently positive and
repeatable.
Read his papers. Regardless of your stance toward such an idea his work is undeniably thorough and very hard to explain away. A famous physicist (I
forget who)once said something to the effect that given the choice of believing that Jahn was wrong or crazy, he would have to say he had gone
crazy...he couldn't accept that Jahn could be wrong.
Anyhow. Have fun.
[edit on 6-5-2010 by mrwiffler]
[edit on 6-5-2010 by mrwiffler]