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Volume 7: Number 2: Article 1
Non-Causality as the Earmark of Psi
Helmut Schmidt, P.O. Box 296, Mora, NM 87732-0296
As a student of physics, one grows up in a climate of optimism. One
experiences how Nature can be described in terms of mathematically simple
laws which the human mind is able to comprehend. In quantum theory one
finds an elegant and powerful tool which — one feels — may well be the
final theory for all there is to know on this earth, ranging from atoms
to living organisms.
Quantum theory, apart from its practical success, has raised profound
and puzzling questions on the nature of physical reality and the role
of the human observer, but these questions have remained on the periphery
because they seemed of no practical relevance.
Through the results of psi research it became apparent that quantum
theory has flaws in a very practical sense. Applied to a systems that
include human subjects the predictions of quantum theory were seen to
be sometimes incorrect. This finding may well touch upon the open problems
of the role of the observer in quantum theory, the nature of reality,
and perhaps even on the problem of consciousness.
For our present discussion we will put these profound problems aside
and look at psi from the view of an optimistic and practical minded
physicist. We will consider the psi effects as a challenge to either
modify the quantum formalism or to look for other novel mechanisms.
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