I found this fascinating reading when I first found it online a few years ago "Why I have given up:"
Dr. Susan Blackmore
Perhaps she had really bad luck in that everything she investigated over the decades was either within known physical laws, or from people who were deceptive (and to her surprise, they were usually honest and were even deceiving themselves), or maybe, as other investigators told her in her first book "In Search of The Light/The Adventures of a Parapsychologist" (which I read many years earlier and also found fascinating), she's just plain psi negative.
I just discovered this hours-long video, and I did manage to watch the first half hour or so - maybe I can use that spiral-wound toroid device to power a chip amp or something, though his claims seem to be it will power everything and cure my asthma too (cue "Cosmic Debris"):
Vortex Based Mathematics by Marko Rodin
Dr. Susan Blackmore
Perhaps she had really bad luck in that everything she investigated over the decades was either within known physical laws, or from people who were deceptive (and to her surprise, they were usually honest and were even deceiving themselves), or maybe, as other investigators told her in her first book "In Search of The Light/The Adventures of a Parapsychologist" (which I read many years earlier and also found fascinating), she's just plain psi negative.
I just discovered this hours-long video, and I did manage to watch the first half hour or so - maybe I can use that spiral-wound toroid device to power a chip amp or something, though his claims seem to be it will power everything and cure my asthma too (cue "Cosmic Debris"):
Vortex Based Mathematics by Marko Rodin
Not quite as dramatic but still significant is "Project Great" on this site, using three "atomic wrist watches." also demonstrated in a separate link:
LeapSecond Home Page
Certainly if there's any real paranormal ability, it would show up much like a single coherent frequency many dB below a sea of noise. Of course, it would be easier to find if all the charlatans would quit making so much noise.
And why not? There was grant money for the Shroud Of ... uh oh, I hear a mod coming.
I have no problems wiuth it at all. I believe, unlike SY, that we don't have explanations for all things that we experience. I even believe, cointrary to SY, that all our knowledges are approximate models. Like a map that is a map, but never a territory, even if it is a 3-d map that is better than 2-d and 1-d maps.
I won't speak for SY, but I can easily agree with your statements (starting with "I believe"), yet I don't consider not having an explanation for something to be in any way evidence for any particular hypothesis.
My point was, absence of explanations repels scientists from proven results of well controlled experiments, despite of absence of inquisition processes in recent times.
How true. It would be easier to ignore or dismiss what I have seen. I have seen too much, I can't ignore it. This is not some stage show, but from family and friends; things that just happened along with our lives. I have a very conventional view of time moving in one direction, and I can't reconcile this with what I have seen. I hope to live to see them reconciled.
I learned a long time ago, I can understand a lot of things, but there are things I can't understand. I think about them, read when I can, but don't worry about it too much. (Or invent some omnipresent power to explain them)
On magicians. I marvel at their skill. I love the in-your-face kind of tricks. Cards, coins. Nothing like having someone completely fool you right there. Big stage acts with apparatus? So what. Not magic; but skill, practice, hard work. Street magic. Yea!
I understand that. But you can see already from quantum physics that Einstein's C is incoherent. This is not a "C-shattering" incoherence, but it's incoherence all the same: C cannot by definition be constant.
So what goes under the bus, there, is this notion of strict constancy, a small exception, if you will, to some otherwise largely applicable rule (at least for applications with which we are concerned at our scales in our time etc.). But it's those small exceptions that actually prove the new rule and dethrone the absolute from which the exception excepted itself. Lord Kelvin, a true present-paradigm science believer among the best of them, in the late 1800s dissuaded people from pursuing a physics career because, as he held, physics had pretty much wrapped things up. There were, after all, only two small clouds (exceptions) on the horizon, black box radiation and the Michelson-Morley experiment. (In other words, kiss Mr. Kelvin's closed mind goodbye.)
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Well it just might turn out that our expectation that there needs to be a coherent theory that reconciles relativity and quantum mechanics is wrong. Hopefully not, but perhaps the universe is funamentally a duality at these vastly different scales that will not satisfy our insistence on one mathematical structure uniting all. In the meantime enjoy the ride!
Quite the same, soon for short money anyone could repeat this. Will the web sites that claim the relativistic GPS corrections are a huge intenational conspiracy ever go away, doubtful.
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I think these 2 articles might be interesting to some of you folks.
How do you prove photography to a blind man?
How do you prove photography to a blind man? - Skeptico
Dean Radin:
What if Dean Radin's Right? - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
Cheers.
ZAP
How do you prove photography to a blind man?
How do you prove photography to a blind man? - Skeptico
Dean Radin:
What if Dean Radin's Right? - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
Cheers.
ZAP
Tom, in Einstein's model "C" is constant. Otherwise the model does not work. However, in another model it can depen on something else, but it will be another model better for different problems. Or, his model can be expanded, but I don't see how. People are working on it.
None of those are things I disagree with. I think you're arguing with a cartoon, not with me.
Thanks, but Radin's book is more interesting. Fun to read. Lot of information that the critic ignores arguing with Radin's musings that don't matter at all: everyone has own musings. I prefer mine. 😀
No, never said that. Ever.
I do think that any actually observed phenomenon is capable of being scientifically understood, but that's not the same as saying that everything already is understood and can be explained- precisely the opposite.
I do think that any actually observed phenomenon is capable of being scientifically understood, but that's not the same as saying that everything already is understood and can be explained- precisely the opposite.
Ever heard of slow glass? Now we find out time isn't even constant. The only true constant is inconstancy. The one that blows my mind is that what we perceive as a three dimensional universe may actually be a two dimensional projection from the surface of black holes. If a black hole were a neuron in God's mind then maybe the whole universe is nothing more than a divine daydream?
Sy, I agree with you on coupling caps. Replaced the Mundorff silver in oil in my Aikido with Wimas. The only difference I perceive is about $45
Sy, I agree with you on coupling caps. Replaced the Mundorff silver in oil in my Aikido with Wimas. The only difference I perceive is about $45
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The slow glass story (Light of Other Days) was a fun one- unfortunately, conservation of energy means you would have about the energy equivalent of a 1 megaton nuke in your living room window.
Sy,
I wasn't talking about science fiction. I read about an experiment a while back that used two lasers. One was fired at a target. The second was fired through a material at a target. What was found was that while in the material the beam slowed to a very low velocity. On the order of 70 MPH. What was even stranger was that on leaving the material the beam immediately returned to the speed of light. A second experiment was done with the slow beam modulated to reproduce music. Which when decoded was recognizable. The music, i.e. message, was actually transmitted slightly into the past.
I wasn't talking about science fiction. I read about an experiment a while back that used two lasers. One was fired at a target. The second was fired through a material at a target. What was found was that while in the material the beam slowed to a very low velocity. On the order of 70 MPH. What was even stranger was that on leaving the material the beam immediately returned to the speed of light. A second experiment was done with the slow beam modulated to reproduce music. Which when decoded was recognizable. The music, i.e. message, was actually transmitted slightly into the past.
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