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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!mikel
- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Is chi/ ki real?
- Message-ID: <77514@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:09:42 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.040716.17982@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan24.214711.28267@midway.uchicago.edu> <28616@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <28616@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
- >
- > [On yet another query about chi.]
- >
- >
- >I think you're referring to telekinesis. While there have been
- >more grandiose claims, I thought there were hardly any claims of
- >telekinesis anymore (maybe too easy to disprove?).
-
- If I recall correctly, there remains one reputable researcher with
- positive (though very modest) claims about PK. (Unforftunately,
- I've forgotten the fellow's name. I could probably dig it up, but
- it would involve some searching; I don't follow this stuff closely).
-
- The substabce of the claim appears to be that the guy has a mechanical
- apparatus that produces the equivalent of coin tosses in huge numbers,
- and that his experiments purportedly show that observers can
- consistently cause the distributions of results to vary ever so
- slightly from the predicted distribution. (We are talking about
- variations a couple of miles down the road on the right side
- of the decimal place, here, but allegedly consistent ones).
-
- So far nobody else wants to spen the not inconsiderable money to
- build another such machine to test a feeble effect that few
- researchers believe in anyway.
-