The speed of thought: Investigation of a complex space-time metric to describe psychic phenomena - Parapsychological Abstracts

Journal of Parapsychology, The, March, 2002 by Sally R. Feather

RAUSCHER, E. A., AND TARG, R. (2001). The speed of thought: Investigation of a complex space-time metric to describe psychic phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15, 331-354.

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--together with researchers in laboratories around the world--have carried out experiments in remote viewing. The evidence for this mode of perception, or direct knowing of distant events and objects, has convinced them of the 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. Modem physics describes such a time and space independent connection between percipient and target as nonlocal.

In this paper, the authors present a geometrical model of space-time, which has already been extensively studied in the technical literature of mathematics and physics. This 8-dimensional metric is known as "complex Minkowski space" and has been shown to be consistent with the 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. The authors propose a model that describes the major elements of experimental parapsychology and, at the same time, is consistent with the present highly successful structure of modem physics.

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