SRI Experiments with Uri Geller as video evidence

Oh..... and? Is that the answer to the strong peak in the EEG? The neurologist said that he had never seen something like that before and offers no explanation. Apparently you do? Then tell us - I am all ears!

That 15-20 watts is just the amount of energy the brain expends doing work, not how much radiates from the brain if that's an assumption of yours. The actual energy output by the brain as it works hovers around or between 1 pico Tesla down to ~12 femtoTeslas. That signal is far too weak to do any kind of work as seen by those presumed to demonstrate PK. There are a number of environmental EM sources that would easily overwhelm the radiated signal generated by a human brain. See page 12http://workshop.ee.technion.ac.il/upload/Events/Andrei.pdf
1 Tesla is equal 1 T – coil gap of a typical loudspeaker magnet. A femto Tesla is equal to 1 quadrillionth of a Tesla, pico equals 1 trillionth of a Tesla.
 
That 15-20 watts is just the amount of energy the brain expends doing work, not how much radiates from the brain if that's an assumption of yours. The actual energy output by the brain as it works hovers around or between 1 pico Tesla down to ~12 femtoTeslas. That signal is far too weak to do any kind of work as seen by those presumed to demonstrate PK. There are a number of environmental EM sources that would easily overwhelm the radiated signal generated by a human brain. See page 12http://workshop.ee.technion.ac.il/upload/Events/Andrei.pdf
1 Tesla is equal 1 T – coil gap of a typical loudspeaker magnet. A femto Tesla is equal to 1 quadrillionth of a Tesla, pico equals 1 trillionth of a Tesla.

I have no "assumption".

Further, it is all very well this little essay about electrical signals, but you still have not given an explanation of that peak in the EEG.
 
I have no "assumption".

Further, it is all very well this little essay about electrical signals, but you still have not given an explanation of that peak in the EEG.
His brain was working very hard and made that spike. Nothing more than that can be determined. It appears to me you are trying to connect some dots. Are you?
 
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A quote by Martin Gardner that I plucked from a link in another thread:

Crussard typifies a small, sad class of scientists who are experts in their field, passionate believers in psychic forces, supremely ignorant of methods of deception, yet convinced of their ability to detect fraud. They will watch a conjuror vanish an elephant on a brightly lit stage, and readily admit they cannot explain how he did it. Next day they will watch an ex-magician move an empty pill bottle three inches and instantly declare that no conjuring techniques could possibly have been used!

But I waste time. So persuaded is Crussard of Girard’s ability to produce the “Geller effect” that all efforts to disenchant him are like trying to write on water. I suspect, however, that the feeling is rapidly growing among better-informed parapsychologists, hornswoggled for years by fake metal benders, that the Gellers and Girards of the world are doing more damage to their cause than anything a skeptic can say.

Seems also appropriate here.

Here we can see the skeptical belief in its full blossom. When science and belief in magicians are against each other as is the case in the link, then a skeptic chooses the belief. Chooses an editor ignorant in metallurgy before scientists in their own professional work. Although the style of Gardner is rather inappropriate and pejorative, Bart V thinks he is right. Even although Gardner has not said anything about the metallurgical evidence, for example this:
(The original link is this:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1980/dec/18/parapsychology-physics-1/)

Sometimes the experiment was filmed from end to end with a video camera: this was the case of a bending produced by J.P. Girard in a stoppered tube: it was the person making the experiment who took back the stoppered tube from J.P. Girard’s hands at the end of the test, removed the stopper and took out the test specimen himself, noting that it had been bent.

Gardner does not tell how Girard could remove the plug and bend the specimen in these circumstances. BTW, there were found such metallurgical effects in those specimens that Girard would not have been able to make them even at home with all possible tools.

Sometimes the tested metal bar was of such dimensions that, even a very strong man (weighing 140 kgs!) could not bend it with his two hands. But J.P. Girard bent strong light alloy bars of a diameter of 17 mm on four occasions.

In yet other cases, the very nature of the phenomenon precludes faking. This is true of several test specimens in which J.P. Girard produced structural transformations without deformation, martensitic transformation or hardening, by introducing numerous dislocation loops into the metal. It would take too long to describe here the experiments and counter tests subsequently carried out, but it is important to note that it was these tests and controls which most convinced the metallurgists.
 
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