Posted on 05/15/2013 2:30:31 PM PDT by djf
Deep in the basement of a dusty old library in Edinburgh lies a small black box that churns out random numbers. At first glance the box looks profoundly dull, but it is, in fact, the ‘eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future.
The machine apparently sensed the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center four hours before they happened, and appeared to forewarn of the Asian Tsunami.
"It's Earth shattering stuff," says Dr Roger Nelson, Emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the USA. "But unfortunately we don't have a box for predicting the future that we can sell to the CIA. We're very early on in the process of trying to figure out what's going on here. At the moment we're stabbing in the dark."
Dr Nelson's Global Consciousness Project - originally hosted by Princeton University - is one of the most extraordinary experiments of all time. It aims to ‘sense' whether all of humanity shares a single unconscious mind that we all tap into without realizing it. Some might refer to it as the mind of God. But the machine has also thrown up another tantalizing possibility: that scientists may have unwittingly discovered a way of predicting the future.
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Big deal
I had a Magic Eightball that did the same thing..
And for far less $$$$$$$$$
Somebody should have warned the guy dribbling the soccer ball to south America.
...wierd physics ping....
You could sense it coming, couldn’t you?
Bflr
I thought it was pretty neat too. I would have liked to have see these graphs that spike before and after and if they ever get slopes/spikes when there is no obvious global event. Also how long there is a spike on their random number generators.
Fregeards
This really isn’t about predicting anything specific about the future. The thesis is that human consciousness, alone, or in aggregate, can actually change probabilities, and they seem to have good data to back that up.
So, his machine can “sense” when those probabilities are being strongly affected by our consciousnesses, and that seems to be an indicator that a big event is happening or about to happening. However, there’s no way his machine can tell him what that event is, so he can’t actually see the future.
There is the truth of it - It seems science is returning to it's roots.
It’s useless to try to use this to predict anything. However, if their observations are correct, there are interesting ramifications for understanding things like human intuition. Or beating Las Vegas slot machines :)
Do they have a web site that displays a realtime graph or anything? I need to know when to start freaking out...
I agree that it might not be about predicting the future, specifically.
I’ve studied physics for a long time, and what I see here is a sort of indication that time might not be an absolute, linear thing that you can measure with a tape (we call the tape a “clock”), but that time might instead be a little fuzzy... sort of.
So that events cannot be said to happen at an absolute, fixed “time”, but actually occur kinda sorta “around” a particular time.
I always find it fascinating that scientists and people, neither of which understand more than the very basics of what goes on on and in planet Earth, Scientists and people who cannot with any certainty define consciousness, much less explain it, can say with absolute conviction that things like this are ‘impossible.’
They may well be and this is all hogwash. Or it may be real. But we are not even smart enough to ask the right questions much less provide definitive answers. See Galileo and the comparative science of his day vs ours for more on this subject.
If you could get me the winning Power Ball numbers out of that machine, I would be most grateful and become an instant true believer.
His answer went over and beyond me, and all I could really decipher was that time exists all at once, it isn't linear. Well, I asked.
it’s not predicting the future but more like reading the effects of a shock experienced by groups of people
it’s extremely interesting
“I said that we know that at one point, mankind didn’t exist. So if mankind didn’t exist, when did Nirvana come into being for mankind to go after death.”
just because mankind didn’t exist at some point, doesn’t mean that Nirvana wasn’t in existence prior to mankind’s arrival. isn’t this situation similar to our own earth’s existence prior to its being inhabited by humankind? First God created the heavens and the earth, and then he created Adam, and Eve out of Adam’s side, to inhabit the Garden of Eden.
There’s this DR. Dean Radin.
A few years ago I jumped headfirst into his work on “Precognition and Presentiment”
http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm
The data and experiments seemed very very solid. Results showed test subjects having the ability to react to visual stimuli 3 to 5 seconds before seeing it.
Very compelling study.
The conclusion was one of two possibilities:
1. People can “sense” a future event.
or
2. We are living, in the past.
Sorry I can’t point you to the study, but from the link, you should be able to find it.
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