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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.114833.6144@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:48:33 GMT
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- In article <C1GEpL.4H7@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
-
- >This is no joke! I have been told that I am a "super star" in some powerful
- >circles that have decided that traditional universities are "brain dead"
- >and that something new-age is needed.
-
- What would a powerful circle look like? Are its
- physical properties any different from ordinary circles?
-
- >On the Mind-Matter Interaction
- >by Jack Sarfatti, Ph.D.
- >
- >The connection between mind and matter is not a problem restricted to
- >philosophy and theology. It is a problem for new physics. Indeed, it may be
- >the fundamental problem for the new post-Einsteinian physics of quantum
- >connectivity beyond the confines of space and time.
- >
- >The new physics is the telepathic physics of "The Force" without force
- >portrayed in the film "Star Wars". It is the Physics of Destiny. It is the
- >source of meaning. It is the generator of existence in a universe of
- >purpose uniting Man with God.
- [and on and on and on and on]
-
- I suppose it is too much to ask that some actual
- physics be included in the 'new physics'? Misrepresenting
- the meaning of Aspect's experiments for the 400th time doesn't
- seem to count.
-
- I don't know about you, but I generally avoid taking
- physical ideas from Hollywood, though Bugs Bunny's
- world *is* quite entertaining in its place. However,
- films violate 'the old physics' all the time. It's nothing
- profound, though. It's called an 'illusion'. Having
- seen Geller first hand, I'm sure you're familiar with
- illusion.
-
- dale bass
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- C. R. Bass crb7q@virginia.edu
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