Fringe Science
by Jimmy Smith
Precognition
Precognition is a form of extra sensory perception about places or events before they ever occur. J. W. Dunne was the first known person to publish a book about Precognition in 1927 when he released An Experiment With Time in 1927. His studies were based on his own dreams where he would have dreams about events that would happen the next day. More recently Joseph Bank Rhine did an experiment where he told a patient to guess the order of a deck of cards before he shuffled and the patient was correct. Critics believe that Precognition doesn’t exist and that individual is often wrong and only focuses on when there right and erases out of the mind the time when they were wrong.
Suspended Animation
Suspended animation is slowing life processes using external forces without killing the organism, such as breathing and heart rate. The best known example of this was in June 2005 scientist from Pittsburgh claimed that they had bring dogs back to life after being clinically dead for three hours by draining their blood and injected a low temperature solution in there circulatory system. Three hours later they pumped there blood back in and revived them by a electrical shock to the heart. Although the dogs survived some of them began to become unstable and were described as zombie like. This experiment has never been tried on humans for fear of something similar happening.
Psychokinesis
Psychokinesis is the ability to use your mind to change the outcome of a physical system. Examples include moving an object such as a spoon with just your mind or influencing the out put of a random number generator. The early studies of this science began in 1934 when a scientist named J.B. Rhine was trying to determine if you could influence the outcome of rolling dice with your mind. Many people believe in psychokinesis saying that they can cause a book to fall off a shelf or have to power to bend a spoon with there mind. The James Randi Education group has offered a one million dollar prize to anyone that has the power of Psychokinesis and can use it an experiment.
Teleportation
Teleportation is the movement of objects from one place to another instantaneously. Although we can send email faxes and phone call teleportation of humans is a long way off. However they contain such a small amount of data. The American Health institute projects it would take 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits of data to record every detail of the human body. So even if we could transport humans it would take 100 million centuries to move all the data. On top of that a person would have o be destroyed into trillion of atoms and rebuilt in exact form. Any mistakes in the rebuilding process would lead to neurological defects.
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