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Volume 12: Number 4: Article 2
A Double-Slit Diffraction Experiment to Investigate Claims of Consciousness-Related Anomalies
Michael Ibison1, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Stanley Jeffers, Department of Physics and Astronomy, York
University, Ontario, Canada
An experiment in which participants were asked to reduce the fringe
contrast in a Young's double-slit interference pattern has been conducted
independently at two laboratories using the same apparatus. Participants
at York University were explicitly invited to exert their intentionality
either to direct the photon flux preferentially through one path or
the other, or to obtain spatial information about the division of the
flux. Participants at Princeton University were invited simply to reduce
the fringe contrast by any strategy they wished. Results from both laboratories
(Z = -0.481 and Z = 1.654 respectively) are discussed
along with a description of earlier efforts to frame this experiment
as a test of an extra-sensory channel for the acquisition of information.
1Michael Ibison is now with the Institute for
Advanced Studies at Austin.
Keywords: Young, double-slit, diffraction, anomalies, human/machine
interactions
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