Have any studies been done on possible human telekinesis on airborn microparticulate?

Tibetan yogis can control body temperature and i guess immediate ambient temperature, which in effect excites local particles, that’s a sure thing, but what you are saying completely debunks Brownian theory, in that you can mentally impose pattern onto seemingly random moving particles, at will…..cool, but remember Gandalf can do this

The first steps I would take would be to see if you can do the same thing with the container inside another container, or on the other side of a window from you.

If you still can, start going through the application process for The JREF $1m prize: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

This would certainly qualify for the prize, and seems like it would be easily testable to their requirements. There are a lot of requirements to be able to apply, but you’re going after $1m, so it may be worht it.

Good luck =)

It’s not possible. But if you saturated the air with a special substance that could be controlled by an implant in your brain that affects the particulates based on different brain wave patterns. Nah

Mine is an unpopular view in the world of science, but I believe there is something to the power of thought. I am a scientist, but I am not so full of myself or the sciences to believe we know everything there is to know about the world. In religion, you find instances of people doing things with mind power, even though many scientists would bluster and say I’m full of crap.. but think about it: What is ritual? Prayer? Why does it seem to be more powerful/effective if you have more than one person doing it? Etc.

Thankfully, I am not the only scientist whose gut tells them not to dismiss the unexplainable (and, at least for now, the unprovable). Check out the field of Noetics.

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I believe it! I can and have changed the weight of an object on a sensitive lab scale with out touching the object. And not with sudden approaching disturbances…static and holding for a minute or more. What surprised me though is I thought my energy would impose upon it and make it heavier….I was wrong….it made it lighter.

Can you propose an experiment? Can you really be sure that it was you?

I say no.

However, there is a false dichotomy often made between the empirical mindset and others. A strict, positivist approach to science excludes many things that we feel to be true, due to the fact that they aren’t empirically justifiable. This doesn’t mean they don’t have value, just that they can’t be demonstrated to have factual value, which is important.

If telekinesis is possible at all, why would it be more practical with light objects, rather than objects with more weight? Surely if there are more molecules to move around, there’s a greater chance of moving the object?

I hope you see my point – scepticism is the most effective route to knowledge.

Ok, here is how I think I did it. I was looking carefully at the steam molecules as they swirled in the container. It was pretty. So while I was looking I decided to concentrate on how the pattern formed and to stop losing track of the multitude of very small particles. I consciously thought that maybe my observation would change something on such a small scale. Maybe not moving the molecules, but something more subtle like the pattern of their movement. So I focused on the pattern and it seemed to respond to my attention. You go try!

You will need for this experiment:

-sunlight
-bottle
-boiling water

Carefully, fill the clear glass bottle with the boiling water and then empty it. Then look at the steam left in the bottle through the sunlight.

See the pattern of the swirls. Concentrate, and see if it changes when you do….

@the100thmonkey – This is where scientists get hung up.

A strict, positivist approach to science excludes many things that we feel to be true, due to the fact that they aren’t empirically justifiable. This doesn’t mean they don’t have value, just that they can’t be demonstrated to have factual value, which is important.

I feel like you cannot dismiss something you feel to be true, especially through observation. Observation is the scientist’s greatest tool! How else would it be possible to make the connections necessary to form a working hypothesis? It is true that good scientists are skeptics and, though it doesn’t sound like it here based on what I’ve said in my previous post, I am definitely a skeptic and a critical thinker, myself. On the other hand, I can’t dismiss things that I have experienced to be true, but I do recognize that without empirical proof, such experiences are anecdotal at best.

To me, however, a good scientist is one who is open-minded to possibilities, who is capable of making connections between things, and who has the willingness to invent a method to quantify, examine, study, or prove something. In order to have this willingness, the scientist must feel strongly about his or her intuition; hence, I disagree that feeling or intuition has no place in science. The bigger mistake, I think, is that so many scientists place no importance in such things.

Please keep in mind that many things we take for granted at the moment were things that people once scoffed at as ‘impossible’ or in the realm of fantasy. The most cliched example is, of course, the discovery that the world isn’t flat. If you were to tell someone 100+ years ago that people travel in space and walked on the moon, no one would have believed you.

One of my personal mottoes is “nothing is impossible”. Just because it doesn’t seem possible now doesn’t mean we won’t figure it out in the next 100 years.

The sorts of wet blankets who write books about how Star Trek is a poor showcase for physics will tell you that there simply is not enough ambient energy for telekinesis of any sort.

As a scientist who keeps an open mind to things about which little is known, I avoid making conclusions that in the absence of evidence to support a theory, the theory must be false.

That does not mean I will consider it to be true without empirical confirmatory evidence.

An open mind is not a garbage pail.

An important thought i have about telekinesis would be well shared here. If one had this faculty in any substantial fashion, i think it would make life hard to live. Like getting more than you bargained for. So, I value my current set of faculties and the fairly constant laws of physics. No surprises…