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Archive for Wednesday 2nd July 2003 - Random numbers
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MIND over matter really works - and people are proving it all over the world.
A fascinating experiment run on a network of 50 computers linked around world
is revealing that collective thought can influence events. The computers
generate random numbers. But researchers Roger Nelson and Dean Radin found that
the numbers generated during ‘coherent group events’ become less random than
expected. ‘Coherent group events’ were occasions such as the Academy Awards
broadcast, the OJ Simpson trial verdict, and New Year’s Day celebrations. The
statistical analysis of ‘9-11’, (September 11, 2001) the day of the World Trade
Center terror attack, has generated the most surprising results.
Two hours before the first jet struck, the random number generators started
veering significantly from what researchers expected. The turbulent results
continued for eight hours. The odds of these events registering in the way they
did defy normal probability. Radin is confident that what he is uncovering is
‘more than just dumb luck.’ On the first anniversary of 9-11, he noticed two
other ‘coincidences’: first that the New York lottery drew the sequence 9-1-1,
a one-in-a-thousand outcome; and, secondly, that during the commemoration
service a freak squall of wind buffeted the ceremony, when the prevailing weather
was completely calm. He likens the process to random, individual notes (or
thoughts) resonating together to produce a coherent, harmonic chord capable of
influencing world events. “The experiment suggests that as mass mind moves, so
does matter... it appears to be a real, persistent effect.”
Mark Winter
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The practical effect of meditation on society has been known for more than 20
years.
Practitioners of transcendental meditation claimed to reduce a city’s
crime rate by 16 per cent when one per cent of the population meditated daily.
A 1993 experiment with 4,000 TM meditators in Washington DC coincided with a
two per cent reduction in violent crime over a two-month period.
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