Hello,
After having ceased my job a year ago, I have time again to deal with The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
See:
http://ift.tt/1oC472s
http://ift.tt/1qbvazG
My claim is not exactly humble and may even be considered arrogant: A paradigm shift for the whole of science from physics to psychology, as far-reaching as the paradigm shift introduced by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) for astronomy.
Kepler had shown that the astronomy from the old Greeks to his time including Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was in principle completely wrong, insofar as it was based on the philosophic premise of the immaculate circle.
The most far-reaching insight of the new paradigm shift is reincarnation as a trivial scientific fact. E.g. James Randi (1928) is very probably the reincarnation of Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926), and probably also of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805 - 1871) and of Alessandro Cagliostro (1743-1795) (and maybe even of female priests in ancient times). So in order to really understand James Randi, one should deal with Houdini, Houdin and Cagliostro.
The evidence for reincarnation today is only as simple/complex, convincing/unconvincing as the evidence for a spherical Earth two and a half millennia ago. So I cannot expect the JFRF staff to be ready and to be unprejudiced enough to invest a lot of time and mental energy into judging the evidence.
Nevertheless the question whether faster-than-light transmission (FTL) of information is possible or not by Coulomb's law is much simpler. And it is common sense that if Coulomb fields propagate FTL, then not only the relativity theories but all physical theories based on Maxwell will collapse like a house of cards, leaving a lot of valuable stuff for the construction of alternative, less inconsistent theories.
A colleague, a firm believer in the impossibility of FLT, helped me in doing the experiment. He did not consider our results convincing enough to confirm FTL by his signature. And I had to admit to myself: If I were as convinced of the impossibility of FTL as I'm convinced of instantaneous actions-at-a-distance, then I probably also would have declared our results as not conclusive.
In the meanwhile the experiment has become more convincing. We can use two separate oscilloscopes synchronized by a signal generator, and we understand the influence of image charges better. So my colleague finally accepted to sign as one affidavit for FTL (but still not for instantaneous-actions-at-a-distance).
Before starting to look for a second affidavit, I'd like to know whether FTL still qualifies for the challenge.
If you think that FTL (or even instantaneous-actions-at-distance) is not something paranormal in itself, then I propose the following compromise: The first half of the prize is offered for FTL transmission of information (with inevitable refutation of Maxwell's theory, relativity, QM, QED and so on), and the second half is offered for either panpsychism or reincarnation being accepted by mainstream science.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
www.pandualism.com
After having ceased my job a year ago, I have time again to deal with The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
See:
http://ift.tt/1oC472s
http://ift.tt/1qbvazG
My claim is not exactly humble and may even be considered arrogant: A paradigm shift for the whole of science from physics to psychology, as far-reaching as the paradigm shift introduced by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) for astronomy.
Kepler had shown that the astronomy from the old Greeks to his time including Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was in principle completely wrong, insofar as it was based on the philosophic premise of the immaculate circle.
The most far-reaching insight of the new paradigm shift is reincarnation as a trivial scientific fact. E.g. James Randi (1928) is very probably the reincarnation of Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926), and probably also of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805 - 1871) and of Alessandro Cagliostro (1743-1795) (and maybe even of female priests in ancient times). So in order to really understand James Randi, one should deal with Houdini, Houdin and Cagliostro.
The evidence for reincarnation today is only as simple/complex, convincing/unconvincing as the evidence for a spherical Earth two and a half millennia ago. So I cannot expect the JFRF staff to be ready and to be unprejudiced enough to invest a lot of time and mental energy into judging the evidence.
Nevertheless the question whether faster-than-light transmission (FTL) of information is possible or not by Coulomb's law is much simpler. And it is common sense that if Coulomb fields propagate FTL, then not only the relativity theories but all physical theories based on Maxwell will collapse like a house of cards, leaving a lot of valuable stuff for the construction of alternative, less inconsistent theories.
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Originally Posted by prewitt81 (Post 2856844) I would worry more about how you plan on demonstrating your latest claim. I am also interested in knowing why you weren't able to get affidavits for the FTL transmission experiment. |
A colleague, a firm believer in the impossibility of FLT, helped me in doing the experiment. He did not consider our results convincing enough to confirm FTL by his signature. And I had to admit to myself: If I were as convinced of the impossibility of FTL as I'm convinced of instantaneous actions-at-a-distance, then I probably also would have declared our results as not conclusive.
In the meanwhile the experiment has become more convincing. We can use two separate oscilloscopes synchronized by a signal generator, and we understand the influence of image charges better. So my colleague finally accepted to sign as one affidavit for FTL (but still not for instantaneous-actions-at-a-distance).
Before starting to look for a second affidavit, I'd like to know whether FTL still qualifies for the challenge.
If you think that FTL (or even instantaneous-actions-at-distance) is not something paranormal in itself, then I propose the following compromise: The first half of the prize is offered for FTL transmission of information (with inevitable refutation of Maxwell's theory, relativity, QM, QED and so on), and the second half is offered for either panpsychism or reincarnation being accepted by mainstream science.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
www.pandualism.com
via JREF Forum http://ift.tt/1kjyX0d
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