You wrote;
> Tho when a person watches and mentally tries to make it come up heads
> or tails more, the odds get very very screwy. There is no way to
> effect the odds of the test other than on a mental level.
A year or so ago, a study was done with baby chickens placed in a room
with a robot that was simply a motor with microswitches so that if ran
into anything, it would back up a few inches, rotate about 45 to 90
degrees and drive forward.
The path of this robot was monitored as it moved all by itself in a room
and found to be completely random.
When baby chicks were placed in the room in a small pen, the robot had a
decided tendency to 'hang around' the chicks. I never saw the complete
report on this experiment but it was something on the order of 70-80% of
the robots travels would bring it as close to the chick pen as possible.
Amazed the researchers and led them to thinking that inanimate objects
are attracted for some reason to animate objects....there were other
experiment done that gave similar weighted results when living bodies
were introduced as opposed to non-living...
I just thought your mention of the randomness studies was intriguing. I
have two reports sent to me by a lady scientist friend at Princeton who
is heavily involved in such research and the anomalies definitely
indicate something strange is going on. Eventually they'll get it to
techniques that people can learn so they can use the effect for
themselves.
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