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NOTES
Page 64: "For the first time, " said Eugene Polzik, one of the researchers...
Curt Suplee, "Top 100 Science Stories of 2006," Discover Magazine, December 2006, p. 35.
Page 64: 'We're talking about a beam of about J,000 particles..." Zeeya
Merali, New Scientist Magazine, June 13, 2007.
Page 68: "With luck, and with the help of recent theoretical advances,..."
David Deutsch, New Scientist Magazine, November 18, 2006, p. 69.
5:
TELEPATHY
Page 71: The careers of several magicians and mentalists, in fact, have
been based... At dinner parties one can also perform amazing feats of
telepathy. Ask everyone at a party to write down a name on a slip of paper
and put the slips in a hat. One by one you pick out a sealed slip of paper and,
before opening it, read aloud the name written on it. The audience will be
stunned. Telepathy has been demonstrated right before their eyes. Some magicians, in fact, have risen to fame and fortune primarily because of this
trick.
(The secret to this amazing feat of mind reading is the following. Pull out
the first slip of paper and read it silently to yourself, but announce that you
are having difficulty reading it because the "psychic ether" is clouded. Pull
out a second slip of paper but don't open it yet. Now recite the name you read
on the first slip of paper. The person who wrote that first name will be
amazed, thinking you have read the sealed, second slip of paper. Now open
up the second slip of paper and silently read it to yourself. Pull out the third
sealed slip of paper, and read aloud the name on the second slip of paper. Repeat this process. Each time you say aloud the name on a slip of paper, you
are reading the contents of the previous slip of paper.)
Page 72: Gamblers also are able to read people's minds... A person's
mental state can be roughly determined by tracing the precise path taken by
a roving eye as it scans a photograph. By shining a thin light beam onto the
eyeball, a reflected image of the beam can be cast onto the wall. By tracing
out the path taken by this reflected beam of light on the wall one can then
reconstruct precisely where the eye is roving as it scans a picture. (When
scanning a person's face in a picture, for example, the observer's eye usually
moves rapidly back and forth between the person's eyes in the picture, and
then wanders to the mouth, and back to the eyes, before it scans the entire
picture.)
As a person scans a picture, one can calculate the size of his pupils and
hence whether he experiences pleasurable or unpleasurable thoughts, as it
scans particular parts of a picture. In this way, one can read a person's emotional state. (A murderer, for example, would experience strong emotions as
he looks at a picture of a murder scene and scans the precise location of the
body. Only the murderer and the police would know the location.)
Page 73: The first scientific studies of telepathy... The Society for Psychical Research included Lord Rayleigh (Nobel laureate), Sir William Crookes
NOTES
Page 64: "For the first time, " said Eugene Polzik, one of the researchers...
Curt Suplee, "Top 100 Science Stories of 2006," Discover Magazine, December 2006, p. 35.
Page 64: 'We're talking about a beam of about J,000 particles..." Zeeya
Merali, New Scientist Magazine, June 13, 2007.
Page 68: "With luck, and with the help of recent theoretical advances,..."
David Deutsch, New Scientist Magazine, November 18, 2006, p. 69.
5:
TELEPATHY
Page 71: The careers of several magicians and mentalists, in fact, have
been based... At dinner parties one can also perform amazing feats of
telepathy. Ask everyone at a party to write down a name on a slip of paper
and put the slips in a hat. One by one you pick out a sealed slip of paper and,
before opening it, read aloud the name written on it. The audience will be
stunned. Telepathy has been demonstrated right before their eyes. Some magicians, in fact, have risen to fame and fortune primarily because of this
trick.
(The secret to this amazing feat of mind reading is the following. Pull out
the first slip of paper and read it silently to yourself, but announce that you
are having difficulty reading it because the "psychic ether" is clouded. Pull
out a second slip of paper but don't open it yet. Now recite the name you read
on the first slip of paper. The person who wrote that first name will be
amazed, thinking you have read the sealed, second slip of paper. Now open
up the second slip of paper and silently read it to yourself. Pull out the third
sealed slip of paper, and read aloud the name on the second slip of paper. Repeat this process. Each time you say aloud the name on a slip of paper, you
are reading the contents of the previous slip of paper.)
Page 72: Gamblers also are able to read people's minds... A person's
mental state can be roughly determined by tracing the precise path taken by
a roving eye as it scans a photograph. By shining a thin light beam onto the
eyeball, a reflected image of the beam can be cast onto the wall. By tracing
out the path taken by this reflected beam of light on the wall one can then
reconstruct precisely where the eye is roving as it scans a picture. (When
scanning a person's face in a picture, for example, the observer's eye usually
moves rapidly back and forth between the person's eyes in the picture, and
then wanders to the mouth, and back to the eyes, before it scans the entire
picture.)
As a person scans a picture, one can calculate the size of his pupils and
hence whether he experiences pleasurable or unpleasurable thoughts, as it
scans particular parts of a picture. In this way, one can read a person's emotional state. (A murderer, for example, would experience strong emotions as
he looks at a picture of a murder scene and scans the precise location of the
body. Only the murderer and the police would know the location.)
Page 73: The first scientific studies of telepathy... The Society for Psychical Research included Lord Rayleigh (Nobel laureate), Sir William Crookes