Paranormal or Extra-Sensory Events

I've met many people who have captivated me with their stories of extra-normal events. I like to tell them that no one can argue with them about what they saw. Seeing is a personal experience. What one sees is entirely up to the person doing the seeing.

James Randi, however, is holding the scientific view put nicely by A. Einstein that science is an attempt to coordinate our experiences and bring them under a logical framework. The personal experience of seeing does not necessarily involve a capacity to coordinate that experience with the experiences of others.

Scientists don't have time to repeat all the experiences of everyone who has ever lived. Instead scientists duplicate some experiences and test others for reliability. All the while, these scientists build up a logical system with which they can understand the world of their collective experiences.

Sometimes logical inconsistancies show up. These wreak havoc in the world of science and make great press. In the 1980's a sequence of experiments called the Aspect experiments (Alain Aspect of France was an important contributor to these experiments) were performed. These experiments used an unusual laser which produced a beam of identical photons one at a time.

First, light was finally proven to be a stream of particles. No one had ever done this before.

Next, light was shown to be a wave. This was entirely expected.

Finally, each photon was shown to demonstrate both wave properties and particle properties at the same time.

This last step is what would have upset Niels Bohr. No longer can we say that a photon travels as a wave, and the wave function collapses to a particle equation at the moment the photon is detected or measured.

Meanwhile, John Cramer wrote a quantum theory using the ideas of John Wheeler, Richard Feynman, Paul Dirac and others and called it the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory. This theory describes a photon as a packet of photoelectromagnetic energy that travels forward and backward in time, half of it travels forward, and half of it travels backward (if you like; otherwise you can think that it simply travels both ways at once. Really, time is not an issue for a photon, because if there is a clock on a photon it will never tick.)

The logical inconsistancies here involve thinking about an object that travels backward in time.

Some people have been practicing with this idea for some time, since particle physicists have been saying as much for at least forty years.

Paranormal experiences are typically easily explained by means of physics. Sometimes the explanations are not so easily understood. On rare occasions, explanations require careful analysis and perhaps expensive equipment. We at The Council on Science have been doing this explaining for over twelve years. As a service to the public, we offer our experience for nominal fees.

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