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Volume 15: Number 3: Article 2
The Speed of Thought: Investigations of a Complex Space-Time Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena
Elizabeth A. Rauscher & Russell Targ, Bay Research Institute, Palo
Alto, CA
For more than 100 years scientists have attempted to determine the
truth or falsity of claims that some people are able to describe and
experience events or information blocked from ordinary perception. For
the past 25 years, the authors of this paper — together with researchers
in laboratories around the world — have carried out experiments in remote
viewing. The evidence for this mode perception, or direct knowing of
distant events and objects, has convinced us of hte validity of these
claims. It has been widely observed that the accuracy and reliability
of this sensory awareness do not diminish with either electromagnetic
shielding, or with increases in temporal or spatial separation between
the percipient and the target to be described. Modern physics describes
such a time and space independent connection between percipient and
target as nonlocal.
In this paper we present a geometrical model of space-time, which has
already been extensively studied in the technical literature of mathematics
and physics. This eight-dimensional metric is known as "complex Minkowski
space" and has been shown to be consistent with our present understanding
of the equations of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and Schrodinger. It also
has the interesting property of allowing a connection of zero distance
between points in the complex manifold, which appear to be separate
from one another in ordinary observation. We propose a model that describes
the major elements of experimental parapsychology, and at the time is
consistent with the present highly successful structure of modern physics.
Keywords: parapsychology, ESP, space-time, multi-dimensional
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