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- From: brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
- Followup-To: alt.paranormal
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:54:47 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Summary: Mentally influencing your random number generator
-
- petitc@nuge105.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- > I think the head of Stanford's Engineering dept. did some studies which
- > showed that, by trying to influence certain statistically valid actions
- > (e.g. 100,000 flips of a coin, in one second, by a computer), the
- > subjects did have a small but measurable influence.
- > Now, I want to see those tests done myself, but I don't have the
- > resources.
-
- It seems obvious to me that you do have the resources, namely
- 1) A computer,
- 2) A human brain.
- So go for it! Mentally influence your random number generator! Myself,
- I'll be trying to mentally influence millions of UseNet readers to keep
- this stuff out of sci.physics.
-
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- Staccato signals of constant information, | David Brahm, physicist
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