Mulder???
It sounds like Art Bell material: A series of random number generators around the world - little boxes that use fairly trival microcircuits to generate endless streams of random numbers - are analyzed constantly to see if the random results form any sort of curve. Imagine flipping coins constantly, and looking for periods of time in which the number of heads or tails isn't within a whisker of 50%.
Supposedly, says the "Global Consciousness Project", there's something to this.
But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events.
(Via
Peg Kaplan)
The Eggs also regularly detect huge global celebrations, such as New Year's Eve.
But the project threw up its greatest enigma on September 11, 2001.
As the world stood still and watched the horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something strange was happening to the Eggs.
Not only had they registered the attacks as they actually happened, but the characteristic shift in the pattern of numbers had begun four hours before the two planes even hit the Twin Towers.
They had, it appeared, detected that an event of historic importance was about to take place before the terrorists had even boarded their fateful flights. The implications, not least for the West's security services who constantly monitor electronic 'chatter', are clearly enormous.
'I knew then that we had a great deal of work ahead of us,' says Dr Nelson.
What could be happening? Was it a freak occurrence, perhaps?
Apparently not. For in the closing weeks of December last year, the machines went wild once more.
Twenty-four hours later, an earthquake deep beneath the Indian Ocean triggered the tsunami which devastated South-East Asia, and claimed the lives of an estimated quarter of a million people.
When seeing these things, I usually go to the the James Randi website, which is usually a good place to find debunkings of the paranormal (when it's not wallowing in misguided atheist propaganda).
Nothing. Yet.
Anyway - skeptical as I am, there's more to it. Worth a read.
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February 17, 2005 07:46 AM
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Mitch - Actually, the news is so mind-boggling, I, too am still skeptical.
Nevertheless, the fact that this research is being done by supposedly "serious" scientists gives it a bit more credence than if it appeared in the pages of The Enquirer.
So - I shall retain my skeptical view, but also an open mind.
Posted by: Peg K at February 17, 2005 07:53 AMI don't know, I always worry about any claim that goes out of its way to use the phrase "top scientists." Makes me think of infomercials for some reason.
Still, I was going to quibble about the article's description of the boxes as having a simple microchip inside, but the GCP website explains it better: ( http://noosphere.princeton.edu/reg.html ) they use electronic white noise (fundamentally reliant on quantum tunneling effects, supposedly); they even include a page explaining why they think power line fluctuations wouldn't have a big effect on the output ( http://noosphere.princeton.edu/rdnelson/reg.powergrid.html ).
Doesn't mean it's legitimate, and I am still skeptical, but it's better than the article's explanation.
Posted by: Steve Gigl at February 17, 2005 11:39 AMWow. That's very weird and cool.
Posted by: Chuck Olsen at February 17, 2005 03:47 PMI knew mathematics was more interesting than my droning college profs made it seem.
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